Decent tuner with a headphone output and volume control
Thanks for the input. A question for a novice like me, is streaming high fidelity sound quality or is it compressed and a sample of the music but not the actual music. Sound quality is very much what AudiogoN and other audiophile sites are/were about. Any advice or experience you can share on streaming and sonic quality would be helpful. Hope all are doing well with our globes current condition. |
whatjd ... is streaming high fidelity sound quality or is it compressed ...It depends on the stream. Some stations such as Radio Paradise offer streaming in FLAC and sound great. But many terrestrial stations stream in mp3 quality that can be inferior to their OTA signal, especially if you have a good tuner and antenna. |
Here's a new/inexpensive model ($300). https://emotiva.com/collections/stereo/products/pt-100?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_... Think it does what you want. DeKay |
I guess crap is in the ear of the beholder. I listened to FM "crap" for too many years on tube and scope tuners and I appreciate ditching the unreliable motorized antennas. But if that's what you want you'lll a $55 tube headphone amp. Audiophile Jazz and Linn Jazz are 320 kbps and sound better to me than pushing music through a transmitter. The trouble with AM and FM is that the program signal becomes part of the wave that carries it. So, if something happens to the wave en-route, part of the signal is likely to get lost. And if it gets lost, there's no way to get it back again. Imagine I'm sending my distress signal from the boat to the shore and a speedboat races in between. The waves it creates will quickly overwhelm the ones I've made and obliterate the message I'm trying to send. That's why analog radios can sound crackly. |
