Thread: New MR89 Tuner
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Old 06-16-2022, 10:14 AM
Charles Charles is offline
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Originally Posted by Masterlu View Post
Retail $5,500 USD
Thing is, folks with a Mac rack want a Mac tuner. I play my MR87 for about 3-4 weeks out of the year at Christmas but couldn't do without a Mac tuner. I don't see much difference spec wise in the new tuner. I like the look of the MR87 better. The MR87 utilizes DSP and pulls in a huge number of stations. The key to FM is an outdoor antenna. I recently replaced mine and noticed a significant improvement. No tuner no matter how expensive or powerful can compete with an inexpensive but properly installed outdoor omni directional antenna. If you want even better performance add a rotor.



If you are going to install an antenna it must be properly grounded. Very important. I also installed a junction box (circuit breaker) between the tuner and antenna to protect from power surges.

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Charles

Last edited by Charles; 06-16-2022 at 10:22 AM.
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