FM Tuner for audiophiles-is it a bad idea today?

@kennyc I bought my MD 102 when I lived in Los Altos Hills. That is your area and there were a few worth while stations up there. I loved the station that played Latin Jazz on Sunday (Jessie "Chewie" Vera sp?) was the DJ. That was a decade ago. The MD102 sounded like CD quality on the Bay Area FM stations.

I'm fortunate to get good reception of KUSC (91.5 FM) classical music 24/7 with no commercials on a Magnum Dynalab FT-101A tuner. Rivals the sound quality of CD playback.

I have about 4 good public/community music stations in my area and 2 NPR news stations.  I loved my Mac mr74,mr67, mr71.  But it was a pain getting them in top shape, finding someone to work on them  and shipping them across the country.
So I went to streaming, first with a macbook via usb/spdif  and now using a Chromecast Audio into a MHDT Dac.  Mush easier, more choices ( love WWOZ) and sounds great.  Do I miss twiddling the knobs. oh yes!

@turnbowm
..."Rivals the sound quality of CD playback."

+1
It sure can. While HD streaming is fun, the predictable playlists are nice, sometimes i prefer good FM vs compressed sounding streamed radio. Some who've never heard a really good FM tuner are not aware.

it’s a great idea...few seem to know how good a good FM station can sound on a good tuner...lucky to have Don Scott modified McIntosh MR-74 and Luxman L-110...though many very good vintage tuners can now be had fairly inexpensively