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A McIntosh Tuner, Is There One In Your System?

whoa.....Dan, very impressive.....

I can't keep track of all the equipment you listed on your signature, but now I can...like they say "a picture is worth a thousand words" :D
 
Still using the same never serviced MR77 I've owned for more than 30 years. It does a great job of picking up every bay area station. Just finished listening to "Dead to the World" on whats known here as "free speech radio" KPFA in Berkeley California. Sonically the tuner set to this station sounds just about as good as my MCD201.
 
tony-w said:
Still using the same never serviced MR77 I've owned for more than 30 years. It does a great job of picking up every bay area station. Just finished listening to "Dead to the World" on whats known here as "free speech radio" KPFA in Berkeley California. Sonically the tuner set to this station sounds just about as good as my MCD201.
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I miss the Bay area. Lived there '67 to '71 before moving to Oregon, then to Florida. I have visited many times, but it's not the same as living there, feeling the pulse of the city everyday, visiting friends, absorbing the culture. I used to sit up late listening to KSAN, when FM was programmed for the listeners, not for ratings. KSAN used to do some great shows. Those truly were the days.

When you have a first class tuner like the MR77, and you are tuned to a station that is broadcasting uncompressed, full frequency signal, it makes you understand how capable FM stereo can be, even compared to CD. FM listening really hits its stride when you are listening to a well produce live music broadcasts.

Happy listening, Tony
 
Thanks jdandy. Reminds me of when I lived in Detroit in the late 60's where what I believe the best FM free forum what was then called "underground radio" stations like WABX existed. My MR65B tuner stayed on 24 hours a day back then.



jdandy said:
I miss the Bay area. Lived there '67 to '71 before moving to Oregon, then to Florida. I have visited many times, but it's not the same as living there, feeling the pulse of the city everyday, visiting friends, absorbing the culture. I used to sit up late listening to KSAN, when FM was programmed for the listeners, not for ratings. KSAN used to do some great shows. Those truly were the days.

When you have a first class tuner like the MR77, and you are tuned to a station that is broadcasting uncompressed, full frequency signal, it makes you understand how capable FM stereo can be, even compared to CD. FM listening really hits its stride when you are listening to a well produce live music broadcasts.

Happy listening, Tony
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I've NO tuners with only 9 !!! FM presets in my system. And never will. Be it McIntosh or any other... Even my cheapo mobile phone stores 20 stations or so... when I need at least 30 presets. But still it would be nice to have yet another matching component (meaning LOOKS) in my Mc system...
 
tony-w said:
Thanks jdandy. Reminds me of when I lived in Detroit in the late 60's where what I believe the best FM free forum what was then called "underground radio" stations like WABX existed. My MR65B tuner stayed on 24 hours a day back then.
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Yea, the good ol' "underground radio" days. I don't think we will ever see anything like it again. Reading your posts, and thinking about it brought back a lot of great memories.

I can remember back in the early '70s before stereo sound on televisions, you could watch a live broadcast of Austin City Limits on TV, and tune the sound in on a local FM radio station. It was fantastic. Crank up the tunes on your stereo, and watch the concert live on TV. Now we get 5.1 surround sound via satellite, and don't think anything about it.

Dylan said it best. "The times they are a changing".
 
I Like the MR74 Best

I've tried the following mint and aligned models:

MR73
MR74
MR77
MX117/MR75
MR78 - Stock
MR78 - RFM Modded
MR80
MR500

IMHO, the best sounding one is the MR74 and I use this in my main system.

And my second choice is the MX117/MR75.

As always, YMMV. :cool:
 
I procrastinated one day too long last week on a very nice MR74 on agon. I should have jumped on it when I saw it. It is interesting to hear that is the one you like the best from that long list.
 
jdandy said:
I procrastinated one day too long last week on a very nice MR74 on agon. I should have jumped on it when I saw it. It is interesting to hear that is the one you like the best from that long list.
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If you want to read in detail what I really think about the MR74, mosey over to www.fmtunerinfo.com, scroll down to McIntosh in the left column, click on "McIntosh," and then read the write-ups on the MR74 and the MX117/MR75.

The reality is, IMHO, virtually all of Mac's vintage SS tuners were keepers - I just prefer the sound of the MR74 for the reasons specified in the write-ups on the FM Tuner Info web site. As always, YMMV, of course. :cool:
 
I own a great MR85, after I had an integrated C45 TM1. I clearly miss a bigger range of pre-set channels. Only 8 or 9 channels in a country with four official languages and a fifth (English) doesn't seem very generous, does it? :no:

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Booter......Does you MR85 have one or two TM-1 tuner modules installed? Your first sentence sounds like you removed a TM-1 module from a C45 preamp, and installed it in a MR85. If you have two TM-1 tuner modules, then you actually have 18 presets available.
 
jdandy said:
I miss the Bay area. Lived there '67 to '71 before moving to Oregon, then to Florida. I have visited many times, but it's not the same as living there, feeling the pulse of the city everyday, visiting friends, absorbing the culture. I used to sit up late listening to KSAN, when FM was programmed for the listeners, not for ratings. KSAN used to do some great shows. Those truly were the days.

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Happy listening, Tony
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You can still find a remnant of KSAN on KPFA in Berkeley (and the Internet) Thursday nights at 8 PM (Pacific Time):

http://kpfa.org/1pro_bio/1b_simmo.htm

Should be coming on in about 5 minutes from now (as I post this). Time to crank up one of the MR-71s.
 
A McIntosh Tuner, Is There One In Your System?

Of course... the MR80.
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Here's how well it works. Objective: Tune a station at every slot on the FM band.

http://home.comcast.net/~mc_audio/ChicagoFM.htm

-G
 
jdandy said:
That is one heck of a list of accurately tuned stations. Truly amazing.
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Yeah.. there's another FM log for the same MR80 set up in Millersville, Maryland.. this time with a stacked Channel Master 4408 `FM Stereo Probe´ array. That log is still being formatted because at some frequencies there are two stations, and separating them requires turning the antenna ~90°. :)

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-Gregory

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Oh.. those silly engineers!! LoL
 
Man.......That Channel Master antenna array is far superior to my little Fanfare FM-2G base loaded FM antenna.
 

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Man.......That Channel Master antenna array is far superior to my little Fanfare FM-2G base loaded FM antenna.
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And it was sooo extreme!!

Here's a view of the single 4408 antenna used to log all those stations in Chicagoland:

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It looked really kool from the street with that alignment bearing, and guy wires attached just below it. ;)


-Gregory

MR80, MCD7007, C33, MC2205, Thiel CS3.5
 
I have a MR78 that I bought new.....just a beautiful tuner in sound and looks. The only piece of Mac gear I have.
 
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