Best Inexpensive Tuner?

There are many choices for good vintage tuners in that price range. Do yourself a huge favor, spend a little time at http://www.geocities.com/tunerinfo/.

If you want to purchase new, I highly recommend you contact Don Scott, who used to review tuners for S'phile, you can find a link to his e-mail at the above site.

You could easily spend well over a $1000 and still not equal what you would get by purchasing a good vintage tuner.

For new try the Parasound tuner. I forget what the model number is, however, they only make one. It runs about $450 retail.

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Stay away from tube tuners unless you are a technician. one of the best in that price range is the old Sansui tuners like the TX-9900 about 200 to 350$. Luxman tuners are also plentiful and good performers

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For a modern digital tuner with all the bells, and a remote, take a look at the Marantz ST6000. It even has two separate FM antenna connections, so you can could use two stationary directional antennas for best reception without the hastle of adjusting the antenna.

The Onkyo T-9 (analog) and Luxman T-02 (digital) are two of the best budget tuners I've heard. The NAD 4020A and Proton 440 aren't bad either, and can be found used for reasonable prices.