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Is anything better than the Accuphase T-100?

I've had an Accuphase T-100 for slightly less than ten years now and listen to it daily.  Every time I listen to it, I can't help but to think about how amazing it is.  The soundstage width, depth, instrument separation, and tone is so good.  It's much better than my CD player.  Is there anything else that's in the same league?  I have space on my rack and listen to so much FM radio that I thought it might be fun to get another tuner, possibly tube, to switch back and forth when the mood strikes.  I'm intrigued by some of the vintage tube tuners out there, but don't want to waste my time unless I know that it's at least equal in performance to the Accuphase.

So, if you have experience with the great Accuphase T-100 and something else that's just as good or better, please let me know what the other tuner is and how it compares.  I would love to hear about it!
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gawdbless
1,165 posts
 
Got to admit I love the sound of my Sansui TU717 tuner. I mean, I did many years ago, after all I don't want anyone to think FM tuners are passe and of not 'audiophile' quality.........lol
barbapapa
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Got some tuners also . I bought in this order :
  1. Ion System (Obelisk) FMT1. 
  2. Naim NAT101
  3. Naim NAT01
  4. Sequerra FM Ref
  5. Tandberg 3001A
  6. Leak Troughline with stereo decoder
  7. Quand FM4
  8. Naim NAT01 again
Sequerra can be considered the best of all (for me in ly home and system). It has all : selectivity easy to feed and real sound. Built like a Tank.

Finally sold it for geeting some money for another project.

By a short distance the NAT01 a very close second. Except that you need a good antenna. Sold it also and it was a big mistake.

After trying Tandberg (very good), I got the Leak witch was great for tone and voices but still noisy even with my roof antenna and seviced by London Sound in England.

Tandberg is a beautiful girl on a glassy paper. It doesn’t have the human factor that touches me (but that’s me). Everything is near perfect (bass, highs, image, sensitivity and selectivity, silence) but never raised goosebumps like the the first 4 can do on a live concert of classical music.
Quad is good but clearly not in the same league.

Ion System is lovely. Can be considered a little Naim. 

For the best are

1-Sequerra
2- Nat01
3- Nat101
4- Ion System FMT1
5- Tandberg 3001A
6- Leak Troughline
7- Quad FM4

Back to the Nat01 now and very happy with it. Some can perfectly have different tastes. This is just for me. I listen only classical music and my electronics are with tubes.
gsmith5
16 posts
 
I’ve owned the following fm tuners:
Accuphase T-100, T-109V, T-1100
Sansui TU-717
Kenwood 600T
For the money I really liked the Sansui TU-717, that would be my recommendation. 
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ldmr888
20 posts
 
Here is my 2c:
1. Davidson Roth
2.Sequerra FM-1
3. Day Sequerra Ref
4. Marantz 10b
5. Mcintosh ME 78 with MPI-4
6. Yamaha CT-7000
buellrider97
135 posts
 
Thanks for a really cool discussion. Unfortunately I grew up and still live in Fresno . So I lost interest in FM long ago . My last dedicated tuner was a Dynaco FM 3 fully serviced ( tubes and alignment ) by a local shop . I then used Sansui and Marantz receivers with a dedicated roof antenna  . So my I ask , Were the dedicated tuners of the same brands I had , significantly better than the big receivers ? Cheers , Mike. 
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