What are some of the better tuners out there?

@ancient_tones  Pay attention to the discrimination and selectivity circuits of the tuner, the old tube units don't have the good specs the newer SS units have.  Regardless of how good the Sound Quality output is, if it can't handle bleeding in from other stations or distant ones, when you want to listen to one, then SQ becomes a minor issue.

As for sound level, I can't argue with a tube unit.

I just got my Magnum Dynalab md106t tuner back from repair and had the caps in the output section upgraded and I upgraded the tubes to Telefunken tubes and my tuner sounds good again. It should further improve with play time. My tuner is 12 years old but I will keep it.

Can anyone comment on what I think is an attached antenna on the Sansui TU-9900. I recently got a Magnum Dynalab 108T and love what I am hearing from my favorite station. I want to add a tuner to my living room system and was thinking of a vintage tuner or a lower cost Magnum Dynalab.

If the Sansui TU-9900 does have an attached antenna is it able to lock on moderate signals. It would make life easy if I do not need to attach an antenna in the living room area.

If it is a long round cylinder type, it’s an AM antenna.  I had. Sansui tuner way back when and it did both FM and AM and had what I described. I remember the tuning knob on the right was right up against the tuning dial and the glass panel went around the knob.  That was around 1979.