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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I have an Onkyo T9090 tuner that was recapped and it now also allows me to swap out the OpAmp output stage - akin to rolling tubes. Makes for a really good sound.

Has amazing sensitivity and I use it for the lesser known stations that still broadcast live versus simply sending their internet feed across the air waves.

Gets really interesting at night when Skywave propagation kicks in and you start pulling in stations from all over. I can get Cleveland from Toronto :-)

Everyday. I have a MR88 in my reference system that's fed by a combination FM/HD/Sirius outdoor antenna.

I stopped listening to the radio since the late 90s; although every year I tune in to listen XMas music during Xmas week. That's it.

 

I have both a Denon TU-680NAB broadcast monitor and an Ocean Digital WC-10 internet tuner in my system here in Dayton, OH. I use the Denon to listen to our local Classical outlet, WDPR/Discover Classical as for some reason, the WC-10 won't pick up their stream. 'DPR has no processing on its signalm so it sounds very pure. On the WC-10, I listen to WZUM, the Pittsburgh Jazz Channel, Jazz 24 from Tacoma, and TSF Jazz from Paris as well as our local, all-volunteer Oldies station, WSWO-LP/Oldies 97.3. That last one plays "music from the 50's, 60's, 70's and beyond." They have the deepest and broadest library of Oldies I've ever encountered and play a lot of songs I've never heard in my life. They also have a show on Dayton Funk every Sunday night at 11. Great stuff. The radio is always on in our place.