musician2358
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Sherwood TD-2010 CP specs
Anyone have any specs for the Sherwood TD-2010 CP tuner? I was at a local thrift shop and snatched one after noting it was pretty heavy for a digital tuner. I carry a small screw driver when thrift shopping so I opened the case and noted the MPX decoder chip was a Hitachi HA11223 that is generally found in high end tuners (e.g. Kenwood L-01T, KT-917, Sansui TU-X1, TU-919 etc.), which was enough for me to snag it for $20.
My test for a tuner is to see if it can render a weak public classical station (KQAC) in our area with no objectionable noise floor during quiet moments with a 300 ohm dipole for an antenna. Any tuner that is good enough to do this will almost surely have been designed to sound good to boot. Anyway, this tuner passed this test easily, not quite, but almost as quiet as my Onkyo T-9090II (which few tuners can claim), and eminently listenable on this station. While this tuner won't make anyone's candidate list for top 10 tuners ever, sound quality is also very nice.
I've not been able to ascertain the varactor diode count despite being able to visually inspect the circuit board, but I think it has the varactor equivalent of a 4-gang tuning capacitor. Noise is quieter than the 4-gang tuner in a Sansui G-5500 and also than a Sansui TU-7500, also a 4-gang tuner. Anyone know the varactor count and/or stereo separation?
Thanks,
M2
Anyone have any specs for the Sherwood TD-2010 CP tuner? I was at a local thrift shop and snatched one after noting it was pretty heavy for a digital tuner. I carry a small screw driver when thrift shopping so I opened the case and noted the MPX decoder chip was a Hitachi HA11223 that is generally found in high end tuners (e.g. Kenwood L-01T, KT-917, Sansui TU-X1, TU-919 etc.), which was enough for me to snag it for $20.
My test for a tuner is to see if it can render a weak public classical station (KQAC) in our area with no objectionable noise floor during quiet moments with a 300 ohm dipole for an antenna. Any tuner that is good enough to do this will almost surely have been designed to sound good to boot. Anyway, this tuner passed this test easily, not quite, but almost as quiet as my Onkyo T-9090II (which few tuners can claim), and eminently listenable on this station. While this tuner won't make anyone's candidate list for top 10 tuners ever, sound quality is also very nice.
I've not been able to ascertain the varactor diode count despite being able to visually inspect the circuit board, but I think it has the varactor equivalent of a 4-gang tuning capacitor. Noise is quieter than the 4-gang tuner in a Sansui G-5500 and also than a Sansui TU-7500, also a 4-gang tuner. Anyone know the varactor count and/or stereo separation?
Thanks,
M2
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