Yes, my wife and I listen everyday for a couple of hours at least on our bedroom system consisting of an ancient NAD 7130 receiver. Our favourite stations are CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 2.
All very nice!Your idea of ancient is... rather different than mine.
It gets worse
It gets worse
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InterestingBut people throw away old tuners and even (maybe working/easily repairable) receivers:
Take HiFi from the recycling center
I was at the recycling center where I live. At the center, private individuals can throw miscellaneous items. I saw this receiver in the electronics pile. Superficially, it appeared to be in good condition. I was thinking of taking it BUT you are not allowed to take things with you from the...
Did you know this:
FM radio transition to DAB
As of 2021, Norway is the only country so far to have switched off FM radio in favour of DAB (for national broadcasters). Since then, Switzerland is currently the only country to have confirmed plans for a switch, targeting a date of 2023.[21]
Norway
Norway was the first country to announce a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations. The switch-off started on 11 January 2017 and ended on 13 December 2017.[22][23] The 2017 switch-off did not affect some local and regional radio stations. They can continue to transmit on FM until 2027.
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Oops, last year I gave away a working (could use some component upgrades judging by its sound though) 2238B for the symbolic price of 50eur, because I wanted it picked up i.e. minimum hassle for me. Lovely machine, looks pretty much exactly the same as the one in the video. I still have a tuner-only Marantz to satisfy the need to look at that pretty shade of blue
my lips are sealed...why? did you somehow manage to find the remains of the Wardencliff tower?
My "collection" heavily leverages the provenance of the much-beloved New England tradition of the "Yankee Swap" pile at our (small) town dumps (or, more typically nowadays, "transfer stations"). The notion of freecycling has a long, long history in New England.But people throw away old tuners and even (maybe working/easily repairable) receivers:
Take HiFi from the recycling center
I was at the recycling center where I live. At the center, private individuals can throw miscellaneous items. I saw this receiver in the electronics pile. Superficially, it appeared to be in good condition. I was thinking of taking it BUT you are not allowed to take things with you from the...
Did you know this:
FM radio transition to DAB
As of 2021, Norway is the only country so far to have switched off FM radio in favour of DAB (for national broadcasters). Since then, Switzerland is currently the only country to have confirmed plans for a switch, targeting a date of 2023.[21]
Norway
Norway was the first country to announce a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations. The switch-off started on 11 January 2017 and ended on 13 December 2017.[22][23] The 2017 switch-off did not affect some local and regional radio stations. They can continue to transmit on FM until 2027.
Digital Audio Broadcasting - Wikipedia
More people looking for things:My "collection" heavily leverages the provenance of the much-beloved New England tradition of the "Yankee Swap" pile at our (small) town dumps (or, more typically nowadays, "transfer stations"). The notion of freecycling has a long, long history in New England.
N.B. This is a good deal more socially acceptable than dumpster diving in many hamlets in New England to this day. Indeed, the town dump on Saturday mornings is often the social & political center of the town, as it was in Harvard, MA when we lived there (and, presumably, still is).
I do wish we had anything like this in the UK. We have Jumble Sales, which are almost always tatty clothes, and we have charity shops, which rarely take electrical items. We do have Freecycle, and I've used that quite a bit as I got quite a lot of decent HiFi that way, (Samson power amp, Yamaha CR1000 receiver, Rotel receiver, Celestion Ditton 44s, Leak Stereo 30 + and FM tuner, Strathearn turntable) but when I tried to offer stuff to others, got a lot of people arranging to collect, but then never turned up.My "collection" heavily leverages the provenance of the much-beloved New England tradition of the "Yankee Swap" pile at our (small) town dumps (or, more typically nowadays, "transfer stations"). The notion of freecycling has a long, long history in New England.
N.B. This is a good deal more socially acceptable than dumpster diving in many hamlets in New England to this day. Indeed, the town dump on Saturday mornings is often the social & political center of the town, as it was in Harvard, MA when we lived there (and, presumably, still is).
It really is amazing what the new digital tuners have done for analog reception. My Sony tabletop radio can pull in stations that even the most highly prized tuners from the heyday of FM in the 70's could hope for. Just too bad it came as FM started to die out.I'm not laughing at the Radiowow R-108 - as long as one listens with headphones, or uses that headphone output to feed an amp. I'm concentrating on analog FM use.
I related to it pretty quickly, because I'm a fan of the CCrane Skywave portable that blew my mind which is made in the same factory.
In fact, RadioJayallen has a pretty interesting review of it:
RADIWOW/SIHUADON R-108 FM Stereo/LW/SW/MW/AIR/DSP Portable Radio
April 2019 The new Radiwow R-108 very good for the money. I would recommend US purchasers buy through amazon so you can return a defective sample for exchange, something those of us who have bough…
The DSP chip used for the analog reception (usually from Silicon Labs) - makes these thing unreal in sensitivity and selectivity on just a puny whip.
So I'm not laughing. My CCrane Skywave will never be as cool as my old beloved Sansui, but totally smokes it in performance.
Again - as long as you listen with headphones, or use it with an amp - and of course the station itself can't be total compressed garbage. That's what's ironic - the DSP chip really exposes a station with poor quality, but the good stations who actually care about their signal - if you can find them - are superb. The "transparency" of using a SiLabs DSP chip as compared to old analog demods is astounding.
Just put a towel over it when your vintage buddies come over!
