Do any still use an older high end tuner from the past?....

Over the years I had many good tuners. Don’t really know why I sold most of them (often making money for another project). Also because I am an audiophile after all...

- Ion Systems Obelisk FMT1 (I still consider it as « the Little Big One »)
- Naim NAT 101. A bit better possibly because the external PSU ? 
- Naim NAT01. Still better yet if you have a very good antenna.
- Day Sequerra Reference. Great. Sold it for money. I know this is not considered as the best Sequerra tuner.
- Tandberg 3001A. Very close to the Day Sequerra. Near perfect. Too much perfect ?
- Leak Troughline 2 re aligned and entirely fixed by « London Sound ». Expensive but very good work.  Needs tons of signal for working. Maybe the best for voices but silence in stereo mode is near impossible. At least at my home and I have an outdoor antenna.

Finally came back to Naim NAT01 as I listen only one station for classical music. It is the most balanced of all them (for my taste) and very « human » on spoken voices. 

My Rotel RT 1024....exceptional piece of gear...From 1976 msrp 560.00...still have a few stations in my area in Canada that this tuner has synergy with...great soundstage with depth and excellent separation of instruments....every morning I turn it to CBC for classical as I ready myself for work. A few guests who have listened to music through the 1024 have remarked that they can’t believe it is a radio station....sounds like your in the studio at times😀.it is that good!

I got lucky and located a NOS McIntosh MR-67 FM tuner.  I restored the power supply -- up-graded the discriminator, Multiplex board, and audio section with parts such as stacked-film polycarbonate capacitors, Teflon capacitors, and modern Roderstein metal-film resistors, and the like.  The sound I have been getting from this vintage yet text-book FM tuner is as good as the FM station broadcasting.  I mean that in some cases it is as good as a good CD.  Before that I had a Magnum Dynalab Tuner -- that by direct comparison with the MR-67 was, in my opinion, a piece of junk.  The MR-67 design followed the established standards of the original FM stereo patents.  NICE!!!

"I got lucky and located a NOS McIntosh MR-67 FM tuner."
Talk about lucky...excellent score. NEVER seen a listing for a NOS Mac tubed tuner.

My 1965 MR71 has been seeing overtime lately. If one can't have a Marantz 10B or the rare REL,  a Mac or Scott are probably the "best" tubed units still available.

I had a McIntosh MR 7082 tuner for about 30 years but I did not care for it requiring batteries to store frequencies and the difficulty with the frequency display. I fixed it up and sold it cheap to someone who could completely rebuild it and replaced it with a Magnum Dynalab Ft 101. I put up three directional FM antennas with RCA RF preamplifiers on towers and connected these to an antenna selector switch for each of the concert music stations in distant cities. This combination gives me the best sensitivity in most weather conditions I can afford.