Tuner choices? Help me please

Vintage Tuner Site

Nicotine deprived while experimenting with HTML, not an ideal mix. Sorry for the multiple posts to the same question. As for the Fins, here's hoping they prove me wrong and beat Philly tonight...

The new tuners don't seem to measure up to the vintage stuff, I suspect the ability/talent to design a world class front end has fallen by the wayside. Engineers are taught how to design with digital circuits, RF/analog is a foreign concept to 99% of the engineering graduates in the last 20 years.

I've spent a lot of time trying out different tuners the last year or so (Sugarbrie, you're an evil man, you got me hooked on foolin' with 'em). For current tuners that offer great sound and features, there's Magnum Dynalab and Fanfare. To my ears, the rest of the stuff out there does not compare to vintage tuners from Pionner, Kenwood, or Sansui.

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If you don't have the long green for a MD or Fanfare, and remote is a MUST, go to Ebay's tuner offering and type in "remote", do a search.

Good luck, Jeff

The Vintage FM Tuner site didn't paste for some reason, here it is...

http://www.fmtunerinfo.com/

Ernie,

I have a 7100 I use in my garage system, good value and appropriate for the task. My dealer tells me the 7x00 series are prone to failure, specifically the power swtich gives out and there are no replacment parts available. Have you heard this... any idea of a workaround if the power switch calls it a day?

p.s. good suggestion, didn't occur to me to think of the old NAD stuff