Does anyone listen to the radio anymore?


My tuner has been collecting dust the last few years. Got me thinking, how many  audiophiles even listen to the radio anymore when there are so many other options available?

cdc

Yes frequently. We are lucky in Philadelphia to have an excellent Classical / Jazz station.  Have an old but goodie Kenwood KT-8300 tuner in my system with a good antenna. 90% Classical / 10% other. In the car, about 80% Classical / 20% other. 

All the time. Have a dynalab md109 and a marantz10b. Listen to Kbuu malibu which is so helpful when you have no internet. Programming is awesome and sounds great. Classical radio 91.5 is amazing. Radio sounds amazing with a good one and is a great solution besides streaming that is free. Live broadcast from the met is one the best quality sounding sources, on par with the very best vinyl and dac solutions. Radio 📻  is a must in my opinion. 

For some reason I was convinced that over-the-air FM radio was on its way out, to go off the air in a couple of years and be replaced by HD radio. I even thought the AM / FM radio spectrum had been auctioned off to broadband operators.

Anyway, this thread made me look it up and I was wrong, it actually sounds like FM has a couple few decades ahead of it still... So maybe it's worth getting a good tuner after all 🙂

 

Live broadcast from the met is one the best quality sounding sources, on par with the very best vinyl and dac solutions.

@simchowitz +1

https://www.metopera.org/season/radio/saturday-matinee-broadcasts/station-finder/

 

Some people consider Live Broadcast FM Radio to be the best source possible.  Here is a link to all the stations in the US that you can tune into for the Met's weekly Matinee.