Tuner - FM over the air - suggestions
OK, so I kinda miss being able to just tune in my local over the air classical music station and let it run all day long... So...
I'm looking for suggestions for a good new over the air tuner, with remote. I don't want nor need to go super expensive, so let's keep it at under $500, and preferably more like 300 or less but I'm willing to consider. This is not for a super-critical application, just background music mainly when I want to set and forget and go about my day.
I know there are loads of vintage tuners out there too... but I'm trying to keep it simple. Perhaps if there's a decent vintage with remote for not too much money, ok... but I'm leaning towards new, based on my recent success with new stuff. It'll be hooked into my Marantz Ruby amp via RCA in.
Sangean? Rotel? Rolls? DST? Teac, perhaps...?
OP, I lived in Tucson for 25 years. I loved it. You do know it is ground zero for climate change? Water problems as they are mining irreplaceable ground water… etc. We reached the tipping point for climate change a few years ago and the heat is getting worse and much longer. I don’t know how the electrical grid is holding up. There are lots of forecast maps published showing the expected increasing heat and other effects. These are probably underestimated.
Something to consider.
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It’s getting hot all over the SW, though... and Tucson is better off than PHX or Vegas for water, as T gets more rain and still has enough aquifers to last my lifetime, anyway, and it’s substantially cooler than PHX too. I might consider Reno area, Oregon is out (can’t stand the rain nor the culture). Pasadena good... sort of... but it does have grid problems and many other L.A. problems... plus my Pasadena house is crazy valuable and will set me up for life if/when I sell it so if it’s too hot in Tucson (Oro Valley, north of T, is my prospective destination... misnomer though, not really a valley and is actually higher elev than T) for a couple months I’ll be able to rent a cabin up top of Catalina Mtns or just enjoy my Minn lake place. As for the grid, it’s also an issue all over the SW, and I’ll be going big-time solar system if I move to OV, including getting a couple storage batteries in a few years after this next exponential leap in battery tech kicks in, and a car charger in the garage for a plug-in hybrid, get myself substantially independent and selling power back to the grid. Most of the year, Oro Valley has paradisical weather, lots to do (amenities and clubs in the Sun City neighborhood), and easy living. If I miss CA, I’ll have enough $$ to hop on a plane, fly into Burbank or San Diego, and kick it for a few days. Thus my current line of thinking... and another reason to be reasonably frugal with my stereo hobby -- I’d rather invest an extra 10k into my solar system, like getting the batteries for example, than straight up spending it on high price stereo gear since what I’m getting at "budget audiophile" prices is exciting, excellent and satisfactory... sure, a $20k amp or speakers is nice, but not MORE nice enough for me to go "beyond" (if that) what I’m currently rocking. I'd rather bolster the solar and/or my Vanguard mutual funds stash... Thus, a modest tuner to go w my Marantz Ruby - Klipsch Heresy IV - Epi system, plus another $3k maybe to experiment with Q Acoustics Concept 50 or the Polk r700... that’ll be all done then. After that, it’s just enjoy it all for many years. |
@curtdr Could it be Arizona University's KUAT (90.5 & 89.7)? |
