At $50, I personnaly don't think you will be in "audiophile" territory. Not by a long shot. The good stuff has earned a reputation, and is subsequently hard to find, or sold at a premium price. The best you can do for $50, is get something which you sink a couple of hundred bucks to upgrade by a tuner expert.
I own a vintage Kenwood analog that was upgraded by Don Scott formerly of Stereophile.
That's a great price Zowie. I've seen the Dyna FM-3 going in the $100 to $150 range. The downside because of their age, is they usually need fixup.
Sometimes, you never know, you may get lucky. Someone supposedly picked up a Sansui TX1 at a garage sale for $50 - as mentioned on the Geocities forums.
Please explain what a DX'er is. Im looking at a cool tuner, but it says this, "not much DX'er input on this tuner, but is a good deal for the money (less than $75) "
if DX is the same as hams interpetation....DX is pulling in distant stations. I believe FM DX involves using directional antennas like yagis which have db gain to pull in those far away stations.
anyone, please correct me if I'm wrong.
md
I was under the impression that DX, as opposed to local, narrowed the (forgot the term, the channel width) so that weak signals would have less interference adjacent signals, but some frequency response and fidelity is lost in the process. I suppose there could be a Db boost on the antenna as well. I might be wrong, it's been a while since I was in to this.
The Yamaha CT-410II is a fairly common inexpensive tuner. It's listed on the tuner info page referred to earlier in the post. It works very well for me and sounds much better than any other tuner I've ever used in my house.
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