Just got into FM on my HiFi set up. Purchased second hand Magnum Dynalab 105T and it is a wonderful analogue sound. You do need a good signal (external or roof space aerial). Opened up a new world of all types of music and all free. Live concerts etc. I can get at least 17 stations from the Crystal Palace transmitter where I am in S London. Hopefully FM service is continuing and not disappearing in the short term I understand. Happy listening everyone.
Hi great informative video, in the old days good external aerial is always good to get good reception and of course receivers years ago not that sensitive. However front ends come more sensitive, the earlier hifi tuners pure 702es have seperate antenna for fm and dab so decent aerial can be used to best dab reception. As it’s not that great so got antenna in attic, and have fm antenna on side of house and worked well . But when I upgraded to Rotel t11 which only have one aerial socket , now you can either great dab reception or now bad reception on fm, with the mag mount antenna suppled May be good signal area. Regards mark
The Through-Line is insensitive and needs a proper aerial to pull in a good signal. Not sure but I think it mentions this in the review (I also have it). The "Local" and "Distance" switch might also not be working correctly. Years ago I opened up both switches on one and found they were both badly oxidized . Cleaned them with Duraglit wadding and reassembled them.
Some say that that Leak Sterofetic tuner is better, it has built in decoder. I like the Rogers Ravensbourne 2 FET tuner, it is fairly sensitive and sounds good.
this reminds me of the mistakes i have made...buying bits of hi fi based on their reputation, and / or their looks. some times they sound good, sometimes they dont !
I wonder what record is playing in the intro... it's an MFP label, and nearly all mfp records are re-recordings with another artist. My eyes were opened to tuner differences when I got my Yamaha TX-592RDS. It replaced a Sony receiver thta picked up 3 stations, I know pick up 40 and without annoying static. Same antenna, just plug and play. Not saying the yamaha is the best one since sliced bread, but I do know there's big differences out there
Yes MFP was a budget label but I think as part of EMI they got early recordings of some major artists. The one I have is Relics which is a compilation of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd. I seem to remember reading somewhere the band weren’t too happy about the release on that label . I also had a couple of Beatles compilations on MFP back in the day but they’ve got lost somewhere.
@@theebayhififanatic6002 I have a few, and besides not being original recordings (sometimes proper covers though), the recordings are good, and the final product is good. I've heard far worse re-recordings.
Interesting video. Enjoyed it as usual but wanted to know about that 30-year-old high output moving coil phono cartridge. Wanted to know how it sounds. Thanks a lot take care
Works fine thanks- sounds slightly bright for my tastes- probably needs a bit more breaking in as I have been away a lot lately and not used it as much as usual
I would imagine that FM broadcasts in the UK over the FM analog band has superior programming than what we have here in the United States, which is mostly commercial top 40 junk; increasing right wing talk radio that is starting to move over from AM and boring public radio playing the same small selection of symphonic music and or "tooty" saxophone oriented "smooth jazz". Sold off my Marantz 10B tuner nearly 20 years ago and that is about the same time I dropped listening to radio.
It’s not great content over here - thankfully I don’t think we get many of the shock jock type programming as the US but the only FM music station I regularly listen to is Radio 3 which is predominantly classical. Actually for rock the main station I listen to now is Radio Paradise from the US which has a FLAC stream
I don't listen to FM over here as its mostly rubbish. We have always had a poor selection of stations compared to the US. I was over there in 1992 and I remember turning the dial on FM and being shocked at how much variety there was. But that was 32 years ago and I guessed things have changed and got worse now according to your post. I counted the stations on FM here the other day, there are 13, two are playing only classical, one is just news, current affairs and talk, 3 are just playing current pop or modern music and there is two stations that play a bit more variety but that's hit and miss to be honest.
Just got into FM on my HiFi set up. Purchased second hand Magnum Dynalab 105T and it is a wonderful analogue sound. You do need a good signal (external or roof space aerial). Opened up a new world of all types of music and all free. Live concerts etc. I can get at least 17 stations from the Crystal Palace transmitter where I am in S London. Hopefully FM service is continuing and not disappearing in the short term I understand. Happy listening everyone.
Hi great informative video, in the old days good external aerial is always good to get good reception and of course receivers years ago not that sensitive. However front ends come more sensitive, the earlier hifi tuners pure 702es have seperate antenna for fm and dab so decent aerial can be used to best dab reception. As it’s not that great so got antenna in attic, and have fm antenna on side of house and worked well . But when I upgraded to Rotel t11 which only have one aerial socket , now you can either great dab reception or now bad reception on fm, with the mag mount antenna suppled May be good signal area. Regards mark
The Through-Line is insensitive and needs a proper aerial to pull in a good signal. Not sure but I think it mentions this in the review (I also have it).
The "Local" and "Distance" switch might also not be working correctly. Years ago I opened up both switches on one and found they were both badly oxidized . Cleaned them with Duraglit wadding and reassembled them.
My favorite tuners are the Creek Cas 3140 and the Hitachi FT5500 MK11.
Nice to see something about a tuner again.
I personally stick to my Luxman 5T10 for now.
I think I have taken back in time feel like I watched an episode of spike Milligan and harry Seacombe radio show. With kindness and a smile
Some say that that Leak Sterofetic tuner is better, it has built in decoder. I like the Rogers Ravensbourne 2 FET tuner, it is fairly sensitive and sounds good.
this reminds me of the mistakes i have made...buying bits of hi fi based on their reputation, and / or their looks. some times they sound good, sometimes they dont !
I wonder what record is playing in the intro... it's an MFP label, and nearly all mfp records are re-recordings with another artist. My eyes were opened to tuner differences when I got my Yamaha TX-592RDS. It replaced a Sony receiver thta picked up 3 stations, I know pick up 40 and without annoying static. Same antenna, just plug and play. Not saying the yamaha is the best one since sliced bread, but I do know there's big differences out there
Yes MFP was a budget label but I think as part of EMI they got early recordings of some major artists. The one I have is Relics which is a compilation of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd. I seem to remember reading somewhere the band weren’t too happy about the release on that label . I also had a couple of Beatles compilations on MFP back in the day but they’ve got lost somewhere.
@@theebayhififanatic6002 I have a few, and besides not being original recordings (sometimes proper covers though), the recordings are good, and the final product is good. I've heard far worse re-recordings.
Interesting video. Enjoyed it as usual but wanted to know about that 30-year-old high output moving coil phono cartridge. Wanted to know how it sounds. Thanks a lot take care
Works fine thanks- sounds slightly bright for my tastes- probably needs a bit more breaking in as I have been away a lot lately and not used it as much as usual
Shame there's hardly anything to listen to on it here in UK.
I would imagine that FM broadcasts in the UK over the FM analog band has superior programming than what we have here in the United States, which is mostly commercial top 40 junk; increasing right wing talk radio that is starting to move over from AM and boring public radio playing the same small selection of symphonic music and or "tooty" saxophone oriented "smooth jazz". Sold off my Marantz 10B tuner nearly 20 years ago and that is about the same time I dropped listening to radio.
It’s not great content over here - thankfully I don’t think we get many of the shock jock type programming as the US but the only FM music station I regularly listen to is Radio 3 which is predominantly classical. Actually for rock the main station I listen to now is Radio Paradise from the US which has a FLAC stream
I don't listen to FM over here as its mostly rubbish. We have always had a poor selection of stations compared to the US. I was over there in 1992 and I remember turning the dial on FM and being shocked at how much variety there was. But that was 32 years ago and I guessed things have changed and got worse now according to your post.
I counted the stations on FM here the other day, there are 13, two are playing only classical, one is just news, current affairs and talk, 3 are just playing current pop or modern music and there is two stations that play a bit more variety but that's hit and miss to be honest.