Where are you? Do you know what your FM is doing?


Wondering if folks would do the favor of checking in with their general location and tell whether or not the FM stations in their area make it worth investing in a truly fine tuner. Seems most market suffer from "compression-depression" these days.
4yanx
I'm in the Washington DC area and have 4 great FM tuners (Mac MR-67; Magnum MD-102; Meridian 204; and Myryad MT-100). Unfortunately, there are hardly any great stations. I listen to WPFW for jazz and blues, WETA for NPR programs, and occasionally, when it comes in, WRNR near Annapolis MD for alternative and eclectic modern rock. I can rarely get WRNR though. Lots of multipath where I live. The rock stations are crap, I never tune them in. I wish I had more choices to feed my stable of tuners.
Oh, I live in the South Bay Area of California, Silicon Valley. Multipath heaven (hell?). Would be worth sifting through if 99% of it weren't compressed rock, oldies, and classic rock. There is only one classical music FM station that I know of but that really isn't my bag and they play mostly standard Mozart and Bach stuff, over and over again.

The lone jazz station that I can find (hard to believe in an area like this) is KCSM. It is, though, a great commercial free station. I understand there is another fine jazz station in the North Bay, but I can't pull it in.
In Princeton, New Jersey. Between NYC and Phili. Tons of great choices. Especially WXPN the Univ. of Penn. Home of the World Cafe'.
Richmond, VA. The same stuff they were playing ten years ago. OK, maybe not quite that bad but bad enough. That plus it's heavily commercialized. No tuner on the main rig. Receiver in the garage for background noise. I have a steering wheel tuner in the car & am constantly clicking through it. Turn it off a lot too.
Eastern Long Island New York, Two good NPRs and a couple of college stations. Reception is sometimes tricky but worth it when I hit it right.