They both sound great. I own the Fanfare and chose it over the Magnum because it came with the balanced outputs, remote control, and other ergonomics having little to do with sound quality. I wish that I could tell you that my tuner sounds way better than the competitive Magnum model, but I cannot. I will say that in my system the Fanfare seemed to have better bass than the Etude that I compared it with when I was shopping them both. That could very well have been a function of the Fanfare being able to better capture the station. The Fanfare is the better buy than the Magnum Dynalabs and I would say comprable to the MD-100, better than the MD-90, and better than the FT-101A. Good Luck
