[jdandy]

Originally Posted by prepress

Preliminary troubleshooting suggests it's an antenna issue. My placing options are limited, but I will plan to experiment with that a bit more. Perhaps contacting MD is in order as well. The tuner is only 3 years old, so I'd have to have a stronger reason than the "phantom stations" to do an outright replacement. I have begun to miss AM somewhat; I had it with my Denon TU-800.

MD does offer an upgrade for the MD 90 to an SE edition; that's $500. I'm no expert, but to me none of the upgrades seem to have anything to do with pulling in stations.

• Balanced output
• Solen Polypropylene capacitors in the audio stage with by-pass capacitors
• 4 stage tuning
• Precision brass flywheel and clutch assembly for the tuning pot
• Kimber hyper-pure wire on all outputs balanced and unbalanced
  

Charles.......The four stage tuning is an upgrade that will impact tuner sensitivity. The Solen caps in the output stage will improve the sonic performance as will the upgraded internal wiring to the output stages. That is a reasonable upgrade price. A tuner alignment and you would be rocking again. I say get the MD90 into Magnum Dynalab and have the service performed.

The other option, list it in the Marketplace and let some other lucky person have it to get the upgrades done and own a fine Magnum Dynalab tuner.