tuner better than turntable ? thread.

Record are capable of over 30 khz.What source is the radio station broadcasting?Live music all day?Or records and cd's as the source that sounds so good.You don't have to worry about poor coupling caps in a turntable,but what about all the coupling caps at the radio station?And I enjoyed FM until the stations changed formats in my area.Coupling caps can change the sound of a piece of gear so much,you might think its a totally different piece of audio gear.Just my 2¢♫

Perhaps the better sound you hear just might be poor high frequency noise do to a bad source,electronics,or something else being filtered out by the fm tuner.If the source your listening to has very poor info at above 15 khz,blocking it out may make it appear to sound better.A lot of things may be going on that you may not be aware of.

Hi Jimpcn,
The fm stereo broadcast system is limited to 15khz the engineers chose when they designed it. The frequency's above 15khz aren't there to listen to.There may be noise above the 15khz in a lot of records that you hear on vinyl that wouldn't be there on the fm broadcasts you listen to.There are a lot of bad pressings.In the 60's to 80's I've exchanged many records do to bad pressings. I think a lot of times they ran batches of records off bad worn out dies,whether they knew it or not who knows.They had distortion and noise,even after breaking them in.Being records are capable of over 30khz,who knows whats there.A record has to be made as good as possible.So I'm guessing that blocked out high frequency noise above the 15khz may be why the tuner sounds better over vinyl to a lot of people.I don't have any stations in my area that plays the same music that I have to be able to compare.But once in a while,our college station plays some music I enjoy.I tried that digital tuner that Sam Tellig liked a lot(on about 20 different stations)and it was no match for my cd's,fm analog,or vinyl.If they play vinyl over the air and it sounds better,that's my only guess is noise or something else bad going on over 15 khz.

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