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In Reply to: RE: Dynaco FM3 and station choices posted by M3 lover on July 29, 2018 at 11:57:20:
The played Jazz and then went to Champagne Jazz which I didn't care for. Then the Changed formats and the broadcast was more compressed than before.I do remember that Classical station, it sound pretty good but I'm not into Classical so I didn't listen much except when checking the system or tuner out. There was another Classical station coming from down south in Mexico and it was on around the same time as the other you had mentioned.
101.5 FM still has a decent sounding broadcast as well as 92.5 FM. There was a station out around 102.7 or 102.9 about 10 years back that was out of Carlsbad but I think they sold out too.
So that Long Beach City College station 88.1 is still around huh? Nice! I remember when I found that station by accident. There was a Jazz station that played the more funk/R&B/fusion type music like Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, George Duke, TOP, and others that was coming out from the north of SD county. I think it was in or around the Riverside area. I could get it sometimes and they had good music. I can't remember exactly but this it was around the 100 MHZ area of the tuner. I don't think there are around anymore.
Like you, most of my listening is on 88.3, but I do listen to 101.5 and 92.5 with some other station I listen to when I'm in the mood. All the stations are being bought up or had their transmitting antennas in Mexico so there are what seems to be hundreds of Mexican station broadcast all over and in between the American stations. Some of them sound pretty good too, it just depends what type of music you like.
Some of these stations are way over compressed and I had a DBX 3BX III for a while to handle that but got rid of it when I was out of work. If I'm correct when 88.3 goes to some different programs of music, those are compressed too. I can hear it easily with the SUMO Charlie cause one moment it sounds really nice and then at the top of the hour when the programing changes, it doesn't sound so good. I notice this lately. But when they do a live recording or broadcast of local bands it's sound really nice.
This is why I don't want to spend a grip on a very good tuner. I had a chance to snag a Marantz 10B tuner for under $1K few years back. It was in good condition physically but it needed some work and the way Radio is going I didn't want to spend a lot of repairing a then alignment of it. Also of what I read of it always needing some sort of maintenance to keep it up and running to max performance.
The SUMO Charlie I have has responded very well to upgrades in the audio and power supply sections. It was one of the Charlies that was aligned by JB himself and it still sounds good with no hiss or hum orstatic sounds from it. It's one very quiet tuner. It has a TUBE type sound that was way better than my Kenwood KT-7500 & 8500, Sansui TU-719 & TU-9900 which all sound good but a little too thin in the mid range. The Sansui TU-9900 was the tuner that picked up that station in the Riverside area. The Front End on that tuner is awesome. The SAE could pull in distant stations but is not even close in sound to any of the other tuners I had or have.
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