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Your Favorite Top 10 tuners all time

Here is an alphabetical list of what I consider it deserve a nomination:

Accuphase all tuners
Audiolab 8000T
B&K TS-108
Carver TX-11a
Carver TX-11b
Denon TU-800
Denon TU-850
Fisher FM-1000
Harmon Kardon Citation 23
Hitachi FT-5500
JVC FX-1010TN
JVC FX-1100
kenwod kt-5020
Kenwood KT-1100
Kenwood KT-3300D
Kenwood KT-815
Kenwood KT-8300
Kenwood KT-917
Kenwood KT-990D
kenwood L-01T
kenwood l-02t
kenwood l-03t
Kenwood L-07TII
Kenwood L-1000T
Kenwoods 600T
Luxman T-117
all magnum dynalab tuners
marantz 10b
McIntosh MR 71
McIntosh MR 78
McIntosh MR 80
McIntosh MR-67
Meridian 104
Meridian 504
Mitsubishi DA-F20
NAD 4155
Nikko Gamma I
Nikko Gamma V
Onkyo T-4310R
Onkyo T-4500
Onkyo T-9090II
Perreaux TU3
Phase Linear 5000 series 2
Philips AH-6731
pioneer f-26
pioneer f-28
Pioneer F-90
Pioneer F-91
Pioneer F-93
Pioneer F-99X
Pioneer TX-7800
Pioneer TX-9100
Pioneer TX-9500
Pioneer TX-9500II
Pioneer TX-9800
Realistic TM-1001
REL Precedent
Revox B760 and B260
Rotel RHT-10
Rotel RT-990BX
SAE Mark tuners
Sansui TU-417
Sansui TU-517
Sansui TU-717
Sansui TU-719
Sansui TU-919
Sansui TU-9900
Sansui TU-D99X
Sansui TU-S9
Sansui TU-X1
Sansui TU-X701
Sansui TU-X711
sanyo t55
Scott 310E
Scott 335
Sequerra
Sherwood Micro/CPU 100
Sony ST-J88B
sony ST-S707ES
Sony ST-S555ES
Sony ST-S730ES
sony ST-SA5ES
Sumo Charlie
Tandberg 3001
Tandberg 3011A
Technics ST-8077
Technics ST-8080
Technics ST-9030
Technics ST-9038
Technics ST-9700
Technics ST-G7
Yamaha CT-7000
yamaha t-2
yamaha t-7
yamaha t-70
yamaha t-80
Yamaha T-85
yamaha T-900
yamaha T-930
yamaha T-950
Yamaha TX-1000
Yamaha TX-2000

If by mistake I forgot any tuner out, sorry for inconvenience. Anyhow this is a comprehensive list.
rmihai
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czarivey
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Grundig RTV 6000 receiver that I use as tuner or low-powered receiver in bedroom
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mapman
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I've only owned four or five hand picked ones in the last 30-40 years or so.
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mapman
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I have a Sangean wr-1 able radio with one of the best table radio tuners I have heard ever and I recall some very good ones many years ago, many of which were pre-transistor era.

Anyone ever tried a Sangean radio/tuner on a good system? They would be my modernpick to be able to make a very good one for reasonable cost these days.
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rok2id
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The Sony XDR-F1HD.
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whipsaw
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I have relatively little experience with top competitors, however, I did own an Accuphase T-101 for several years, and have recently acquired a T-103.

It's a bit of an apples and oranges comparison as the associated components and location are quite different. However, I must say that I am extremely impressed with the latter thus far...
ptss
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Listening to Christmas on the Hitachi FT-930 tuner I bought ~ 1976. Still going strong. I've owned the top Harman Kardan and Marantz models and choose this 920 based on listening in my system. I'm amazed it's been so good used every day all these years. Cheers to old fashioned quality.(Of course I don't hear up to the carrier signal)
ptss
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Correction 920 (not 930)
scorpio1951
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 I would add the McIntosh MR-74 and MR-77 to the lists above. Both of these tuners sound very much like the MR-78
mechans
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Years later- I received a gift from a foreign graduate student  who was studying electronics.  He knew I liked Sherwood tube gear from the early 60s so he rebuilt and refurbished a Sherwood tuner for me.  Man is that a fine sounding tuner.  It is stereo but I can't recall the model number it's in storage.
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