On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
What are the people with these high-end Tube Amps
using for thier AM/FM
radio's? =A0Or are they simply connected to high-end turntables?
They generally do not use their tuners, even if they have them. Even
so, 99* percent of the tubes used in AM/FM tuners are common as dirt -
no need for new production.
* Without doing research, name one that fits in the 1 percent -
generally not what you think.
Some of the tuning indicators (Magic Eyes, Eye Tubes) are getting harder to
find now. Was that beam-=switching pentode ever used in FM Tuners in the
Ststes (it never was in the UK). It's very hard to find over here.but
that might be a country thing.
I've seen some videos of homebrew magic eyes. Most of them are
rectangular and move linearly rather than round and moving radially.
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