A directional FM antenna on a rotator will produce better results with a midrange tuner than a top of the line tuner with a fixed antenna.
Most tuners today, even cheap ones, have excellent sensitivity. Actually, unless you live in the country (fringe area) sensitivity is not all that important. For city dwellers, where there are many stations, selectivity, multipath and adjacent channel rejection is the important parameter.
The quality of the audio amplifier circuits is something that high end tuners can brag about, but unfortunately the audio quality is often limited by the signal broadcast by the station, so that a midrange tuner is as good as it gets.
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Most tuners today, even cheap ones, have excellent sensitivity. Actually, unless you live in the country (fringe area) sensitivity is not all that important. For city dwellers, where there are many stations, selectivity, multipath and adjacent channel rejection is the important parameter.
The quality of the audio amplifier circuits is something that high end tuners can brag about, but unfortunately the audio quality is often limited by the signal broadcast by the station, so that a midrange tuner is as good as it gets.
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