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Since FM long has been my primary at the most enjoyable audio source I decided to push the envelope a little further. The Rohde & Schwarz tuner bind via wide-bandwidth output with modified Yamaha T-85 MPX decoder sounds identical to Sansui TU-X1. That is an accomplishment itself BUT the Schwarz has more sophisticated font end, twice faster intermediate frequency stage and way fancier filtration. It is not to mention that broadcast level Schwarz built 100 times better then consumer-targeted Sansui. So, why Schwarz’s advance do no manifest themselves sonically? Schwarz is slightly better in varicose reception settings but not a lot if to tune the signal attention for Sansui very precisely.

Sansui is very fine aligned and tuned with actual measured sensitively of 0.8uv, stereo distortions in wide range of 0.022% and separation of 56dB. The Rohde & Schwarz tuner is “as is” – I have no knowledge about its state. I made a number of calls for the different tuners shop – not one worked with Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201. I spoke with Rohde & Schwarz repair center in US – they told me that they do not support this model anymore in US. I spoke with Minchin guys and they told me the same. Well, with lock of ability to objectively evaluate the sate of my Schwarz alignment I went hard way to learn: I bought another Rohde & Schwarz EU-6201. That one come directly from Germany and the prices was quite attractive.

The new Schwarz was exactly what I was looking for – with all being equal it has 7dB more sensitivity then my old Schwarz. That is huge itself and that made Schwarz way more sophisticated then Sansui TU-X1 in term of reception. The DXing with new Schwarz is truly superb, the selectively is beyond compare to Sansui TU-X1 and the ability of the Schwarz to care overload is just wonderful – Sansui dives into noise in DXing with extra 2dB-3dB, the Schwarz cares +15dB with no effect to sound at all. Well, I still do not know if my new Schwarz is properly aligned but it itself clearly proves there is a room in Schwarz for alignment improvement. If the alignment improvements in Sansui are not truly effective as the Sansui easily get overloaded then in the Schwarz is totally different story and ease uV is very much usable in Schwarz’s reception. So, the concussion is that my Rohde & Schwarz need to be very precisely and very artistically aligned, preferable right along with the new MPX decoder that Dima and I am planning to bud.

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