Tuner deviation meter ?

Guycom:

The more expensive vintage analog tuners/receivers actually had two types of signal meters for FM reception:

1. A signal strength meter, which is the type that Brian was referring to. This meter moved in conjunction with signal strength.

2. A signal tuning meter, which is the type that Eldartford was referring to. This meter is a centering type meter. Really old vintage equipment (post WWII Grundig receivers) used a tuning "eye" for these purposes.

The more basic receivers usually went with one meter ... the signal tuning type.

AM reception usually piggybacked off the signal strength meter. The idea was that when you were receiving the strongest AM signal, it was tuned about as well as you could get.

There are meter-less vintage receivers/tuners out there. You get to use your ears to best tune stations on those receivers.

Regards, Rich

Guycom:

Here's a thread from the Audio Asylum/Vintage Asylum that mentions the deviation meter ...

The KT8300 is the only tuner I know, (well, besides the KT-917/600T) that has the cool deviation meter. This is great for understanding the quality of broadcast stations. The ones where the meter sits at 100% are basically compressing the life out of the music. On other stations, I see the meter bounce between 0 and 90, which is what you want for good dynamic range.

Regards, Rich