Tuner choices? Help me please

The new tuners don't seem to measure up to the vintage stuff, I suspect the ability/talent to design a world class front end has fallen by the wayside. Engineers are taught how to design with digital circuits, RF/analog is a foreign concept to 99% of the engineering graduates in the last 20 years.

I've spent a lot of time trying out different tuners the last year or so (Sugarbrie, you're an evil man, you got me hooked on foolin' with 'em). For current tuners that offer great sound and features, there's Magnum Dynalab and Fanfare. To my ears, the rest of the stuff out there does not compare to vintage tuners from Pionner, Kenwood, or Sansui.

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If you don't have the long green for a MD or Fanfare, and remote is a MUST, go to Ebay's tuner offering and type in "remote", do a search.

Good luck, Jeff

The Vintage FM Tuner site didn't paste for some reason, here it is...

http://www.fmtunerinfo.com/

Vintage Tuner Site

Nicotine deprived while experimenting with HTML, not an ideal mix. Sorry for the multiple posts to the same question. As for the Fins, here's hoping they prove me wrong and beat Philly tonight...

An "RS" series Yamaha tuner can be remote-controled if you you have a remote. (Bought a used TX-540 for $40 and its a nice tuner.) Also, consider the Marantz ST-6000/ST-59 if you must have a remote. Older non-remote tuners are a steal used and sound great. Be sure to get a good antenna.

Easy: find any early 90's NAD Monitor Series tuner (4300?) tuner/pre(?) or full receiver (7100, 7400, 7600). These all have their wonderful FM tuner with selectable IF, selectable noise filtering, and FAR better sound than their newer T7xx HT receivers, for example. As I understand it the one manufacturer of critical an IF or RF decoded stopped making them a few years ago, so all cheap tuners are compromised. I still use a NAD 7400 in my basement rec room, with simple FM rabbit ears. Great FM, fair but ultraflexible pre, ballsy THX amp.