Speaking of high prices and tuners, I love seeing my friend's faces where I play from jazz off of the public FM station at night. Talk about speakers and walls disappearing. Jazz trio right in your room. Lucid, palpable and 3D. I think public radio jazz beats my DAC sometimes. Completely jaw dropping.
This from a tuner that I think costed me $7 on ebay. It's a "nothing special" Sansui tuner from the 1980s. so don't think you *HAVE* to have some exotic tuner or spend more than $30 to get decent FM. I didn't. Lots of good tuners from the 80s (a decent era of solidstate tuners) can be found very cheaply on ebay. This is mostly because FM is a complete wasteland for most people. Well it is, unless you have some good local, independent stations (college, various public radio).
I'm with [b]sfar[/b]. If had to do it again, I might get a $1k integrated (maybe the Krell) and an inexpensive tuner from ebay.
And for my next trick, I'll spin some vinyl for my visitors. heheheheheh. That usually gets the comment "I thought records were supposed to suck" or they just sit there stunned, having heard 'better than Cd playback' from technology everyone has long since written off (vinyl and FM). Priceless.
