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Who's listening to FM Tonight? What tuner?
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Listening to CFMX 103.1 from Cobourg, Ontario, 70 miles away mostly over Lake Ontario. Impromptu #4. by Schubert on the Accuphase t-1100
It’s in mono and barely moving the meter, but it sounds fine. It’s 7f here with 35 mph wind gusts. I could get a bit more signal if I rotated the rooftop antenna, but I’m not touching that dial tonight.
It’s in mono and barely moving the meter, but it sounds fine. It’s 7f here with 35 mph wind gusts. I could get a bit more signal if I rotated the rooftop antenna, but I’m not touching that dial tonight.
KBAQ Phoenix
Sherwood HP 5500 tuner driving an H.H. Scott 335 MPX decoder. Nice!
Violin Concerto "The Frogs" COMPOSER: Georg Philipp Telemann ENSEMBLE: Musica Antiqua Koln
CONDUCTOR: Reinhard Goebel, conductor ALBUM: Telemann: String Concertos II. Musica Antiqua Koln. Goebe lLABEL: Archiv
Sherwood HP 5500 tuner driving an H.H. Scott 335 MPX decoder. Nice!
Violin Concerto "The Frogs" COMPOSER: Georg Philipp Telemann ENSEMBLE: Musica Antiqua Koln
CONDUCTOR: Reinhard Goebel, conductor ALBUM: Telemann: String Concertos II. Musica Antiqua Koln. Goebe lLABEL: Archiv
Sansui TU-S9. I continue to be impressed with this tuner, for which I think I paid $100.
Rhapsody in Blue
COMPOSER: George Gershwin ENSEMBLE: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic SOLOIST: Benjamin Grosvenor, piano CONDUCTOR: James Judd, conductor ALBUM: Benjamin Grosvenor: Rhapsody in Blue. Saint-Saens, Ravel, Gershwin LABEL: Decca
A good test for tuners; check for quieting during solo piano, check for dynamics and soundstage during orchestral passages.
Rhapsody in Blue
COMPOSER: George Gershwin ENSEMBLE: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic SOLOIST: Benjamin Grosvenor, piano CONDUCTOR: James Judd, conductor ALBUM: Benjamin Grosvenor: Rhapsody in Blue. Saint-Saens, Ravel, Gershwin LABEL: Decca
A good test for tuners; check for quieting during solo piano, check for dynamics and soundstage during orchestral passages.
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Now have a near mint-condition Marantz ST6000, courtesy of that big auction place, currently listening to VPR Classical out of Windsor, VT. Maybe 25 miles away. Superb sound. I had no idea it would sound so good (getting fed by outdoor yagi on rotator) .. glad the tuner came in this Friday so I can play with all weekend ..maybe get a picture up later .. FM lives in S VT !
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Well I would have gotten more done this morning, but this came on the radio:
Piano Concerto #3
COMPOSER: Ludwig van Beethoven ENSEMBLE: Cleveland Orchestra SOLOIST: Leon Fleisher, piano CONDUCTOR: George Szell, conductor ALBUM: Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos / Fleischer, Szell LABEL: Sony
I've read some complaints about sound quality on Szell/Cleveland recordings, but this was terrific. Remastered?
Pioneer TX-9500 II
Piano Concerto #3
COMPOSER: Ludwig van Beethoven ENSEMBLE: Cleveland Orchestra SOLOIST: Leon Fleisher, piano CONDUCTOR: George Szell, conductor ALBUM: Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos / Fleischer, Szell LABEL: Sony
I've read some complaints about sound quality on Szell/Cleveland recordings, but this was terrific. Remastered?
Pioneer TX-9500 II
Sherwood SEL 300 driving an LM-4500 chip-based decoder. Nice wide soundstage. Not as quiet as the very quietest tuner, but quite good. This Sherwood seems to have lower output from the detector jack than some other tuners; it won't drive my tube decoders into stereo, but works fine with the 4500. The SEL 300 and HP 5500 Sherwoods had detector output jacks in case four-channel FM succeeded, but alas it did not.
Symphony #3
COMPOSER: Johannes Brahms
ENSEMBLE: Berlin Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
Symphony #3
COMPOSER: Johannes Brahms
ENSEMBLE: Berlin Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
Had the 'privilege' of listening to my SAE Mk6 for hours last night... Baroque music sounding wonderful.
I've had this tuner for around 20 yrs now, wood case and all. Doesn't get used all that much, and every time I do, it works perfectly. I think it's one of the best sounding SS tuners i've ever heard.
I've had this tuner for around 20 yrs now, wood case and all. Doesn't get used all that much, and every time I do, it works perfectly. I think it's one of the best sounding SS tuners i've ever heard.
Sherwood HP 5500, the last Sherwood all-analog tuner. Simply the perfect match to this piece:
Variations on a Rococo Theme . Peter Tchaikovsky, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra , Zuill Bailey, cello, Martin West, conductor , Russian Masterpieces for Cello: Tchaikovsky/Shostakovich, Telarc
Variations on a Rococo Theme . Peter Tchaikovsky, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra , Zuill Bailey, cello, Martin West, conductor , Russian Masterpieces for Cello: Tchaikovsky/Shostakovich, Telarc
LA 3401 decoder driven by Sherwood SEL-300. This decoder measured 47 dB separation and nicely parsed the voices on this beautiful duet:
Lakme: Flower Duet, Natalie Dessay, soprano,Delphine Haidan, mezzo-soprano, Delibes: Lakme Plasson, Dessay, Kunde, Van Dam, Et Al
Scott 335 decoder driven from a Sherwood HP 5500:
Horn Concerto in E, Capella Istropolitana, ALBUM: Steven Gross: Baroque Horn
The trick to getting these Sherwoods to source decoders was to find a short, low capacitance cable from the tuner to the decoder. Otherwise, no stereo.
Lakme: Flower Duet, Natalie Dessay, soprano,Delphine Haidan, mezzo-soprano, Delibes: Lakme Plasson, Dessay, Kunde, Van Dam, Et Al
Scott 335 decoder driven from a Sherwood HP 5500:
Horn Concerto in E, Capella Istropolitana, ALBUM: Steven Gross: Baroque Horn
The trick to getting these Sherwoods to source decoders was to find a short, low capacitance cable from the tuner to the decoder. Otherwise, no stereo.
Fisher FM-100B. Although the Onkyo T-9090 was a little quieter, I preferred the Fisher on this piece. The Fisher brings out the best in concerto recordings.
Piano Concerto #2 Sergei Rachmaninoff, Cleveland Orchestra, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano, Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
ALBUM: Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto #2; Paganini Rhapsody
LABEL: Decca
Piano Concerto #2 Sergei Rachmaninoff, Cleveland Orchestra, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano, Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
ALBUM: Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto #2; Paganini Rhapsody
LABEL: Decca
Agree. Happen to be listening to my 500c again... Baroque.
I admit that I bought it years ago 'just for it's looks'... mint condition with it's original wood cabinet and in perfect 'working' order. Was real happy to find out that it sounded wonderful.
Onkyo T-9090. The exemplary quieting of this tuner brings out the best on a recording like this:
Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D BWV1050, St. Lawrence String Quartet, Awadagin Pratt – piano, Demarre McGill – flute, Stephen Tramontazzi – bass, EMI, 57227, AWADAGIN PRATT AND THE ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET PLAY BACH
The only tuner I've heard that is as quiet is the Kenwood KT-5020, but my personal subjective preference was for the Onkyo.
Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D BWV1050, St. Lawrence String Quartet, Awadagin Pratt – piano, Demarre McGill – flute, Stephen Tramontazzi – bass, EMI, 57227, AWADAGIN PRATT AND THE ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET PLAY BACH
The only tuner I've heard that is as quiet is the Kenwood KT-5020, but my personal subjective preference was for the Onkyo.
