Vintage Tuner Comments

Mattybumpkin, did some research while shopping for my tuners (been through Kenwood 8300 and Magnum Dynalab 101A) and discovered a great site for tuners - http://www.geocities.com/tunerinfo. Also a nice DX site - http://www.amfmdx.net/fmdx/tuners.html. These may be of some help.

I own both the Sansui 717 and 5900. Audio quality is good on the 717, just fair on the 5900. Neither are particularly good for DXing though it is about time that I upgraded my aerial. My Fisher FM-1000 is by far the best of the several tuners that I own; DXing with a dipole is easy and the audio quality is out of sight. I have owned most of the Mac tuners as well as the REL and the Fisher is just my favorite.

That is remarkable Viridian. I owned a Fisher 1000 a few years ago, compared it to Magnum Dynalab, Yamaha CT 7000. PSE Studio 3 and Marantz 10B. I am still more impressed with that Fisher than anything I have heard before or since.

If FM had not gone completely to crap in this market I would have kept it.