Thanks. It seems that streaming may be like any other source....as in the phrase, "it depends".
Decent tuner with a headphone output and volume control
I am thinking of an FM tuner for late night listening to a local college FM jazz station. Would be wanting to listen with headphones and would want the tuner to have a volume control for the headphone output. I have had decent success with many tuners running through a system, but no experience with using one with a volume controlled headphone output. Sound quality is first priority and reception ability is next. Thanks
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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. |
A little update. I now have both my tuners hooked up in my office with indoor antenna's on each and a Magnam Dynalab Signal Sleuth on the MD 102 tuner. https://www.xdrguy.com/xdr-f1hds-for-sale.html The XDR on FM and even HD is great at picking up stations. At the moment the MD 102 is having problems clamping onto 1 station. I switched to the XDR and perfect reception on this station. This is an amazing tuner, especially with the mods I listed above. A bit of posts on this tuner going back over the years. |
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