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I am looking for a really good FM antenna.
Interestingly enough all my B&O receivers (there are 6 of them) have superb FM reception, with no exceptions.
However my McIntosh MR-78 tuner struggles to get distant stations and is not really wonderful with the local.
I am using the factory offered T-type wire antenna.
What would be better?
Jeff
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Best you can get is an outdoor antenna, to test, extend the T antenna you have and hang or place it outside a window.
Collecting Vintage B&O is not a hobby, its a lifestyle.
I have a corner in my house where reception is half bad, but placing the antenna on the top of a cupboard, just 2 meters away, does it.
Hi Søren and Cleve,
In my ridiculously tiny “media room” I have a Beomaster 4500, BeoCenter 9000, and a McIntosh component system. Both B&O products use the standard T-type wire antenna and have excellent reception. The McIntosh also uses a similar T-type wire antenna.
In the room next door, the master bedroom as it were, I have a Beomaster 2400 and Beomaster 4400, the former using the same T-type wire antenna while the latter uses a “fancy” device that supposedly is “the best thing since sliced bread.” (It isn’t, about the same as the T-wire antennas.) However, both have excellent reception.
The McIntosh had perfectly fine reception when it was located more sensibly in the downstairs living room.
I hadn’t given too much thought to the antenna replacement when I set up the system, but the antenna wire did manage to wrap around more than a few connecting wires. I addressed this minor shortcoming and then draped the antenna under the non-functional Beomaster 1000 which sits atop the McIntosh vertical cabinet. (The BM 1000 looks rather grand on top of the sleek black lacquer component cabinet.)
Using the Beomaster 1000 to secure the spread out antenna greatly improved the FM reception which was terrible.
Now the reception is acceptable for local Canadian stations, but trying to bring in KING-FM 98.1 from Seattle is spotty. Standing in front of the cabinet the reception is OK, but walk a few feet away (a meter for Søren) and the reception has hisses, crackles, AND the STEREO lamp flickers, which is beyond annoying when watching television at night.
The solution is clear either I buy a proper outside antenna or tune the radio to a Canadian station. J [I hope that Martin is paying attention, when I compose a post in MS Word, I can produce a simple black and white smilie.]
Thanks for the input guys!
I have excellent reception on all my BMs, (Except for the "black" corner) but with my Onkyo not so, I have to be very careful about placing the T antenna, and even so it takes in less stations than the BMs.
All these indoor antennas, that promise music from heaven, are like the high end cables and wires, SNAKE OIL
Hi Søren,
Snake oil? Yep pretty much describes my super-duper FM reviver, which is no better than the T-wire antennas.