Are Tuners - Audiophile quality

The biggest problem it the strong 99.8 rap station bleeding into your 99.4 jazz or classical station, not TV 6 or 7 bleed in. I have never lived in an area with either channel (anyone?). The better tuners reject the false signals. For folks living in Massachusetts there is an FM station that can be heard up and down the whole dial when not tuned to a particular station. It is WFCR I believe. It's up to the tuner to cut it out. An antenna is not going to help.

Sugarbrie, both of your examples are situations that are either caused by the transmitters not meeting FCC compliance or what is called "front end overload" due to close proximity.

If your not REAL close to the transmitters, make a few phone calls to the offending stations and ask for the station engineer. Once they get on the phone, explain to them your situation and ask them about the "deviation" of the signal. Let them know that you will be filing a formal complaint with the FCC and that they need to pay closer attention to the legalities and technical issues involved with operating a licensed transmitter. Then hang up. Believe me, you will scare the shit out of them. They will run back to the control center and dial things down in a heartbeat. If they don't, that formal complaint to the FCC just MIGHT be necessary. Sean
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dcaudio,

i live in jefferson, md - about 60 miles nw of dc, towards the bottom of the western side of a ~1600' ridge. w/my roof-mounted aps-13 antenna, and an onix bwd1 w/soap power-supply, i get *excellent* audiophile sound from dc. but there's only two stations i find worth listening to, for signal quality *and* content - weta/90.9, which plays classical, & some mixed programming, when it's not broadcasting npr. i especially like "songs for aging children", broadcast from 7-9pm on sunday evenings. but, i mostly listen to wpfw, @ 89.3. this howard-u station plays lotsa jazz, caribbean, s-american & african music. i listen to this station a *lot*! great content (if ewe *like* this sorta stuff), & a good uncompressed signal. if ewe like listening to either of these stations, there's *lots* of tunas for ~$500 (plus or minus $500, depending on model & how careful ya shop!), that, when hooked-up to a good antenna, will deliver great sound. 'course, i recommend shopping used! :>)

if ya like stations like dc101, *no* tuna will make that sound good, & i'm not criticising the music, yust the compressed signal. however, i have found that a dbx 3bx dynamic range expander can make extremely compressed signals sound quite listenable - not yust from a good tuna, but from a good cd-player or turntable, if the software happens to be compressed...

doug s.