Thread: Early FM tuners
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Old 5th Jan 2005, 7:49 pm   #2
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Default Re: Early FM tuners

Just as with separate tuners today, these were used with hifi systems, though some people plugged them into the 'gram' socket of existing AM radios. This was obviously a very small part of the market then, and as you imply most people carried on using MW and LW even if their radios covered FM, since they'd got used to the 'warm tone' of AM radio.

Some tuners were kits made by enthusiasts, but companies like Quad and Leak made commercial products. As often as not these didn't contain a power supply and were supposed to take HT and LT from the power amp or preamp.

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