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?

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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.

As a former owner of a beautiful sounding Marantz 10B, I lament the loss of quality classical music programming!! In CT, we have lost all quality programming except for WMNR, with a limited range of reception. So, in the Hartford area, there is nothing more than NPR leftist talk radio. I will not be sorry if funding is cut to these sources, because they no longer serve the public! Streaming of these stations pales in quality compared to the quality analog signal that used to be broadcast! It’s all about the bottom line. Yet, they’re always asking for money? Get rid of it, and stop using our tax dollars for this! Wake up folks!

As a former owner of a beautiful sounding Marantz 10B, I lament the loss of quality classical music programming!! In CT, we have lost all quality programming except for WMNR, with a limited range of reception. So, in the Hartford area, there is nothing more than NPR leftist talk radio. I will not be sorry if funding is cut to these sources, because they no longer serve the public! Streaming of these stations pales in quality compared to the quality analog signal that used to be broadcast! It’s all about the bottom line. Yet, they’re always asking for money? Get rid of it, and stop using our tax dollars for this! Wake up folks!