Accuphase T-101
T101 modded by Joseph Chow in 08.
Rated it a 6 to be safe but it actually looks very acceptable, not mint, but you will be pleased with the apperence if that matters to you.
Sound....Amazing! as one would expect from a respected tuner as the T-101. Tuner functions flawlessly with recent local service including alignment. All lights function properly. Accuphase T-101- Our other keeper, the T-101 simply sounds better than anything else I’ve heard. It also brought in 60 stations on the yagi, and 58 on the omni double dipole, but more were listenable in stereo with the omni antenna. It did not, however, receive WNED-FM as quietly as did the Sony ST-5130. But with a good live stereo broadcast like those on Sunday afternoons on CBC Radio 2, the sound is simply awesome. When I give my friends CDs of some of these broadcasts, they find it hard to believe that the source was an FM tuner. Of course, no FM tuner can undo the effects of the heavy limiting employed by all FM stations, So these days, I’m more inclined to record Jazz than Classical music, since it doesn’t suffer the effects of compression to the same extent.
That said, the T-101’s midrange is lucid and liquid, the bass bottomless, with a silky, sparkling top end, and that sense of liveness from a good Radio 2 concert, or a Cleveland or Chicago orchestral broadcast, is palpable with good antenna and reception. As a veteran broadcaster, I can almost identify the voice microphones used in many cases. But it’s the music that matters, and that’s what Accuphase tuners are all about.
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