RE: stereo and mono signals

[Sven Franklyn Weil <sven@gordsven.com>]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Hakim Madjid wrote:

> general just barely adequate FM tuners, IMHO. Even the FM tuner section in a
> lot of the mass market home audio receivers from the big Japanese
> manunfacturers exhibit middling performance, these days.

I have two old (20-year old or so) huge radios at home - one is a Marantz 
and the other is a Harman-Kardon.  Both have very decent FM tuners. The AM 
section is crappy -- good for pretty much only local stations (using a 
select-a-tenna).  But I get very good reception on both using just dipole 
antennae made out of zip-cord.  

In a publication put out by Consumer Reports about two years ago, they 
made mention of the poor FM (and even poorer AM) performance of 
present-day home stereo radios.

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