tuners, the red headed stepchild?

If you have good radio stations that would be true.Sadly,there just aren't that many good stations.

not bad in the Raleigh area -- 2 jazz stations, one good classical, wcpe - also streams, good blues Thurs and Fri nites on wsha 88.9
gotta find a decent tuner with good pulling power

I think they get a lot of respect if, as Tpreaves says, you have some decent stations nearby. I do and have a small collection of them.

As a little insurance against the future, I have an FM transmitter in my house that can broadcast whatever I plug into it all thru the house to my various tuners and table radios. Right now I'm listening to XM playing on my 10b. Go figure.