Who's listening to FM Tonight? What tuner?

Onkyo T-9090 with Fisher MPX-100 decoder

Harp Concerto in A
COMPOSER: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf ENSEMBLE: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ALBUM: Handel, Boieldieu, Dittersdorf: Harp Concertos / Robles LABEL: London

The tube decoder seems to add little or no detectable noise.
 
I bought this Carver CT-23 in April of 1996 from Circuit City, along with a TFM-35x, CD player and Cassette player. I had a 4 tall Carver stack.
Anyway, I pulled it out of the garage this morning, let it thaw out and am enjoying it tonight. I programmed 22 stations, here in the metro Detroit area.
I have my recently acquired CC Crane FM Reflect antenna hooked up to it, and an AM loop. They work great!
carver ct-23 am -fm tuner preamp awesome.jpg
 
A couple weeks ago my little Sony ST-JX22 tuner started sounding a bit fuzzy and the next day it completely threw in the towel and died. So, since it's still on the 'to do' list, tonight I'm listening to JACK 103.1 FM here in Victoria through a Harman/Kardon 330B feeding Dynaco A-25 XL's.

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I neglected to mention that the CT-23 is pushing a Carver TFM-35x, which divides up to feed my freshly restored Cerwin Vega SW-12B subwoofer. Satellites are Polk S4 2 ways with some NoRez on the back panel and resealed mid-woofers.
22” vintage Plateau stands.
Not a bad combo.
carver tfm-35x, cerwin vega sw-12B, polk S4, Plateau stands.jpg
 
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I incorrectly tagged the tuner above as a Scott 370; it is in fact an LT-111, the kit version of the 370, recently aligned and some tubes replaced. It sounded great on KBAQ:

Concerto in E BWV1053 (arr. for recorder), Orchestra of the 18th Century, Lucie Horsch – recorder, Decca, 4870642, THE BRUGGEN PROJECT
 
Mumbles said:
A couple weeks ago my little Sony ST-JX22 tuner started sounding a bit fuzzy and the next day it completely threw in the towel and died. So, since it's still on the 'to do' list, tonight I'm listening to JACK 103.1 FM here in Victoria through a Harman/Kardon 330B feeding Dynaco A-25 XL's.

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Just a little update but the little Sony tuner is back online and working!

The power supply seemed OK and it was getting power to various areas on the board. The solder points looked good but I reflowed a few and it came alive. This tuner had previously lived in a cabin on a lake and had probably experienced extreme temperature changes which may have affected one or more solder points. Anyway, all is good again!

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Onkyo T-9090 recently serviced by RadioX tuners. The unsurpassed quieting of this tuner really let the natural trombone sound come through without distraction on this excellent Naxos recording:

Trombone Concerto in Bb COMPOSER: Johann Georg Albrechtsberger ENSEMBLE: Northern Sinfonia of England SOLOIST: Alain Trudel, trombone
CONDUCTOR: Alain Trudel, conductor
ALBUM: Trombone Concertos
 
Fun with tuners and decoders on a Sunday morning:

Fisher FM-100-B: Great ensemble sound:

Jean-Fery Rebel (1666-1747), The Elements – simphonie nouvelle, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, L’Oiseau Lyre, 4759100, LES ELEMENS
Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer, Suite in D Minor, Op. 1, No. 4 “Le journal du Printemps”, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz, Aparte, AP405, GRAND TOUR

Scott 310-E: Exquisite vocal sound:

Stefano Landi (c.1586-1639), Augellin (little songbird), L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar, Marco Beasley – tenor, Alpha, 020, – Homo fugit velut umbra…

Pioneer TX-9500 II with LA 3041 decoder: this pair really does the big-orchestra in big-hall thing nicely, I think thanks to the separation performance:

Andante Cantabile (Haydn Serenade) COMPOSER: Romanus Hoffstetter ENSEMBLE: Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra CONDUCTOR: Raymond Leppard, conductor ALBUM: Encores LABEL: Koss Classics
 
Concerto for 2 Violins

COMPOSER: Georg Philipp Telemann ENSEMBLES: Rebel SOLOIST: Jorg-Michael Schwarz, violin,Karen Marie Marmer, violin

Everything balanced just right on the Onkyo T-9090.
 
H.H. Scott LT-111 kit tube tuner.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Goldberg Variations: Aria, Var.13-18, Les Violons du Roy (King’s Violins), Bernard Labadie, Dorian, 90281, GOLDBERG VARIATIONS ARRANGED FOR STRINGS & CONTINUO

Palladio: I. Allegretto COMPOSER: Karl Jenkins ENSEMBLE: London Symphony Orchestra CONDUCTOR: Karl Jenkins, conductor ALBUM: The Very Best of Karl Jenkins
LABEL: EMI Classics

I've been reading Daniel von Recklinghausen's Audio Engineering Society paper from 1961; very informative!

www.aes-media.org/historical/pdf/jaes-contents-v10-19.pdf
 
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