FM/AM versus Analog versus Digital

I went to my brother's house recently and listened to his old Pioneer tube tuner from the 70s and I thought it sounded really good and last night, during my drive home, I listened to some fine jazz on one of the stations and I thought that it might be great to have a tuner to hear music that I might not otherwise buy or hear.

Also, thinking that radio stations might use vinyl, I wondered what the quality might be. I was thinking that it had to be above digital considering that there was no digital to analog coversion, but I never thought of bandwidth and all of the other things that you good folks have mentioned.

Still, I think I am going to find a tuner to use as an alternative to digital or vinyl.

BTW, Brianmgrarcom, I don't think I ever wrote that I had little thought for digital. It is widely thought that digital is inferior to analog, but you must differ. You seem to have been offended. Did you invent it?

Brianmgrarcom, I didn't mean to have my post sound like an attack. You sounded put-off by my comments that it almost seemed that digital was your child. I apologize if the comment was taken in a content other than what it was intended. However, I do appreciate your and everyone else's comments and suggestions.

As for the tuner, I have read the vintage tuners are often much better quality that new tuners. But, that is a risky deal because you never know how much hell a tuner has experienced.