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Picked up this nice little Akai tuner for a fiver the other day. It's really a quality piece -- the build on it is very nice, and the details good as well. Apparently this unit was a favorite with DXers for several reasons, and had a somewhat unique design. In any event, I like it, it pulls stations beautifully, and sounds great.
Now the downside. The digital readout on the Fm scale stays parked at 89.30 MHz. It scans, can be manually tuned with the dial, and is able to save and recall staions, but the display never changes. It does not have this problem on the AM section, where the display works perfectly.
As I said before, I read an article on this unit, and it's an odd design: "The AT-V04 features a fluorescent digital readout with display increments of 0.05 MHz. While the unit is billed as a ‘digital synthesizer’ tuner by Akai, it is obviously not of the PLL variety. the AT-V04 is basically a dual-mode tuner, capable of PLL-type scan, search and preset station capabilities, but converting at the touch of a tuning knob (literally--the tuning knob is touch sensitive) to fully analog operation."
Any help, suggestions about this problem would be appreciated -- it looks like this tuner is worth saving.
Now the downside. The digital readout on the Fm scale stays parked at 89.30 MHz. It scans, can be manually tuned with the dial, and is able to save and recall staions, but the display never changes. It does not have this problem on the AM section, where the display works perfectly.
As I said before, I read an article on this unit, and it's an odd design: "The AT-V04 features a fluorescent digital readout with display increments of 0.05 MHz. While the unit is billed as a ‘digital synthesizer’ tuner by Akai, it is obviously not of the PLL variety. the AT-V04 is basically a dual-mode tuner, capable of PLL-type scan, search and preset station capabilities, but converting at the touch of a tuning knob (literally--the tuning knob is touch sensitive) to fully analog operation."
Any help, suggestions about this problem would be appreciated -- it looks like this tuner is worth saving.