Top Ten Tuners of all Time??


To start this thread I vote for the Yamaha T 1. At its price performance,little to touch it period. Whats your vote?
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I've owned many good tuners and I wish I still had all of these. Here are my favorites:
- McIntosh MR67 - tube tuner with a beautiful sound and soundstage. It was not a sensitive      tuner 
- McIntosh MR 500 - excellent sensitivity and selectivity delivering a very quiet, clean listening experience
- Mitsubishi DAF20 - very quiet tuner with excellent reception and a detailed but clean sound that is extended with no harshness
- Heathkit AJ-1600 - excellent sound and reception, built like a tank
- Marantz 150 - very cool tuner with built in scope. Mine sounded quite good but wasn't super quiet. Weak station reception was good but not excellent.

I’ll chime in on this very old thread. My current tuners are a McIntosh MR78 and a Marantz Model 20. I’ve also owned an Onkyo T9090II, Dynaco FM-3, and Magnum MD105, and I briefly had a McIntosh MR71 for audition (it needed a lot of work). 
For me, the MR78 is the best I have owned. The 20 has its charms and is as enjoyable as the MR78, but I still put the 78 as tops 
Hi, why don't have a look at tunerinformationcenter or Vintageknob  Pretty informative with different biases. Most audio manufactures made a good tuner but some really stand out. The best i have heard: Accuphase 109v, Pioneer f-26, Sony j88B, Sony st-a7, Revox b760, Luxman TU-117, Tandberg 3011, Yamaha ct700, Kenwood 917, Sansui TU-919/717. All analog tuners even from same manufacturer sound different to each other, same does apply for early digital ones but to a lesser extent. I ended up with ST-J88B, an inspired design, easy to upgrade parts and service, if needed- most importantly beats most in sound quality and beauty.
Back in the day the tuner was on the majority of the time , no time to flip records are you kidding,...My place was a drop in centre with a lot going on and with the tuner on more then the TV and turntable combined the convenience of this component was tremendous.

The 1970s were bit of a blur though I do remember a couple of large Sansui receivers I owned until I discovered the Absolute Sound Magazine around 1980 .
Some how I ended up buying a Sansui TU-X1 which I recently sold a few years ago . I had a notion that bigger had to be better and my memories of the large Sansui receivers influenced me.

I never had it modified however I did have it aligned though I was always amazed of the sound quality of a good FM broadcast even using receivers back in the day it took a lot to better it .
I’ve had good Yamaha & McIntosh tuners.
I’ve had three Magnum Dynalab FT-101A. They are really good.

It wasn’t until I used a reference quality interconnect with it that I realized how very good that model really is.

I wanted to take it up a notch so I skipped over the Etude & MD-90 and got an MD-102.

I am extremely happy with the MD-102. It is a significant upgrade from the FT-101A. It has the upgraded audio section with big caps.
This is my forever tuner.