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FM tuners - Are they OBSOLETE ?

As much as I a have liked tuners in the past - and probably kidded myself that older ''vintage'' tuners sound better (after owning quite a few), I really don't see much use for them except maybe a nostalgic bridge to days past, or bragging rights to pride of ownership with McIntosh gear or whatever.

With the newer technologies giving access to hundreds of stations around the globe, it just seems like THE proposition to discover new music.

I of course know that some high-end tuners sound very good - but let me tell you - a clean 128 digital feed into a DAC (from a digital transport like the Wadia or Cambridge Audio's new ID-100), is pretty impressive...

Sort of make kilo-buck tuners seem futile and very expensive by comparison.

What do you think ?
soniqmike
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ack
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@Bombaywalla - WGBH 99.5 Boston http://www.wgbh.org/995/ plays both; and WHRB 95.3 Harvard Radio Boston http://www.whrb.org/

WGBH broadcasts all Saturday night BSO performances, and the Met on Sundays... This is one thrilling radio station ever since buying the previous all-classical station at the same frequency, that used to features those moronic Mozart-block-at-9-oclock type broadcasts, though they did also broadcast the BSO...
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Thanks much, Ack.
unsound
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Tpreaves, the OP was suggesting that most FM broadcasts are streamed, and via an appropriate device one can can receive standard FM broadcast content, plus much, much more.
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