Who's listening to FM Tonight? What tuner?

[ap14608]

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

I was going to wait to post this, but since you brought up DvR...

The 65th anniversary of the release of the schematic for the HH Scott 335 MPX adapter is coming up. The schematics for the 335 have a date stamp of May 24 and 25, 1961

 

[KiM3Ce]

Listening today to a Sherwood SEL 300 tuner driving an LM 4500 MPX decoder. When the SEL 300 was released, it included a detector output jack to provide for future four-channel FM! I need to take some photos of my tuners, but here is an image from the High Fidelity magazine review. The SEL 300 is not a true digital tuner, but has a digital frequency display.

Cello Concerto #6 COMPOSER: John Garth ENSEMBLE: Avison Ensemble SOLOIST: Richard Tunnicliffe, cello CONDUCTOR: Pavlo Beznosiuk, conductor
ALBUM: John Garth: Six Concertos For Violoncello LABEL: Divine Art

 

[rmp]

KiM,
Would you say that the LM4500 decoder is better than the installed one?

 

[KiM3Ce]

I would say the 4500 is more neutral. The 300 SEL has a rather tube-like sound which is great on some recordings. I think the 4500 is quieter. I'll do some detailed shootouts when I get a chance.

 

[rmp]

I have a LM4500 adapter. Using the scope out on my Scott 312C, I compared them. I couldn't tell the difference, but my ears are old. From what I've read, I suspect the 4500 would be better dealing with HD noise.

 

[ap14608]

Warming up the 310D with some jazz fusion on WGMC/Jazz901