Tuner deviation meter ?


Hi could someone explain the purpose of the deviation meter on my Fisher fm-2310 tuner.
Thanks for any info,
Guycom
guycom
Hi, my Vintage Fisher has three meters one centers on a station being in tune, one sweeps to the right to show signal strength, and one marked Deviation which moves along with the program meterial but not like an vu meter. I have an idea that there is a difernent information given by this meter, but not sure what.
Thanks again for any help - Guycom
Guycom:

Here's a thread from the Audio Asylum/Vintage Asylum that mentions the deviation meter ...

The KT8300 is the only tuner I know, (well, besides the KT-917/600T) that has the cool deviation meter. This is great for understanding the quality of broadcast stations. The ones where the meter sits at 100% are basically compressing the life out of the music. On other stations, I see the meter bounce between 0 and 90, which is what you want for good dynamic range.

Regards, Rich
Rich wins the prize this time. Deviation meter does indeed show you how far the station is deviating from center. Less deviation generally = lower distortion but lower overall audio level. Hence, we compress and limit the signal.

Eldartford: Nice try, but center tuned is almost never the best spot. I've seen one tuner--ONE!--where center tuner was actually the best spot. The rest were all out of alignment.
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