Best Long-Distance receiving Tuners

Besides getting a very good FM antenna like the APS-13, strong rotor, Magnum Dynalab 205 Signal Slueth there is nothing out there for long distance like the Pioneer Elite F-93 for pulling in stations. I have had the FT1a, Etude, and tons of others and stations are not even on their dials that show up on the F-93. However, I would, if you had to have Solid State get a MD-108 (hydrid design) for better sonics.

The F-93 is a very smooth sounding tuner for a Solid State but I would take the Fanfare over the F-93 for transparency and the Rotel RHT-10 over the Fanfare for transparency and an Aligned with NOS Telefunkens in McIntosh MR-67, MR-71,Fisher 200B, Marantz 10B, or Citation IIIx over all of the Solid States for "You are there sound!".

By the way, and this is very serious....for our nation, Michael Powell (Collen's son and FCC head) wants to increase the concentration of voices in one or two corporate mega giants by allowing them to own all the newspapers, radio stations, TV Stations, etc in several markets. If you think 911 blind sided us this is a most major ENRON type curtain there ever could be. Hitler never killed one person in WWII except himself, just his Zombies did. Propaganda did it all. I know this sounds extreme but to those that have traveled extensively in Europe you know what taping our mouths shut can do. There are many venues covering this including www.fair.org (just run search under Michael Powell's name).

I had the Onkyo T-9090 (I don't think they ever made a T-9990) and T-9090 II. The F-93 was superior in long distance ability over the Onkyo all over the FM band. Yet the Onkyo was very good indeed for getting stations. I agree the Onkyo sounds terrible. I would say nearly as bad sounding as any tuner I have every had. Too bad you can not use a good tube tuner (not a watered down version in a receiver) since they sound far more realistic than all the solid states I have ever come across. No wonder so many TAS reviewers use them over solid state.