Hey Mike,

Drop me a line when you're ready to dump your 10B. I've always lusted for
one of those . . . . .

A good buddy of mine left a 10B on the curb, figuring that no one could work
on it. He told me that he cried after I sent him some e-bay completed
auction figures . . . .

I'm surprised that Mr. Morein stopped his perpetual duel with Mr. McCarty
even momentarily to opine on an audio-related matter. (I thought I'd never
say this, but we're probably better of when he sticks to "outing" Brian).

I don't quite agree with Bob. In general, my SS tuners had better
selectivity than the many tube receivers that I tried. My "gold standard"
was the ability to pick up WCLK, a wonderful local jazz station owned by a
Clark Atlanta U. Only a DH-330 could find and lock on it.

However, some of the tuners - especially the Sansuis - had a pair of
Nuvistors in their front ends and actually overloaded at times. Atlanta is
crowded as hell with mediocre (or worse) FM stations; there weren't so many
around when these things were originally sold.

Nonetheless, the Nuvistor equipped gear would pick up stations I never heard
before, and many that were apparently beyond the capability of the SS
DH-330.

I bought a ragged Sansui 1000 recently, and raided it for the trannies. I
am building a separate amplifier around Welbourne Lab's Dynaco ST-70 kit,
designed by Alan Kimmel.

If I have a bit of time I may try to reconstitute the Sansui's FM circuitry
and substitute a crystal filter IF stage that I've been saving for years.
And maybe I'll also add an RF attenuator to reduce the overload and see what
happens. But that's project #24.

- Jon




From: Mike
Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com
Newsgroups: rec.audio.opinion,rec.audio.tubes
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 04:10:43 GMT
Subject: Anyone heard the Mcintosh MX-110 tuner/preamp in person?

Guess we'll have to trash our Marantz 10Bs and get a new fangled
transistor thingee.
Mike


Sockpuppet Yustabe wrote:

"Robert Morein" wrote in message
...


I would not buy a tube tuner today. The advantage of semiconductors for
detection of weak signals and demultiplexing is indisputable. If you buy

the

Mac, there will be stations you want to hear that you can't.




I have several tube tuners and haven't listened to them in years.
Not because they can't pick up FM stations I want to hear,
but because there aren't any FM stations I want to hear.

I just bought a car a week ago, and installed a unit with Sirius
satellite radio where there are "ast least" some music stations
I want to hear "at least" some of the time.




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