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Originally Posted by Krazyjohnny
Does this lessen how bad the tuner sounds? My BT and CD sound great. The radio on the other hand sounds terrible.
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Not really. It eliminates one layer of arguably sub-optimal EQ (or two with loudness), which may help a little, but the crazy loss of lows and highs relative to other inputs is still there.
If I'm reading it correctly, the service manual says it uses -6 dB at 70 Hz, and -17 dB at 7 KHz. FM music stations generally have heavy EQ, but this goes far beyond flattening them out a bit. It must be optimized for talk radio, though even that sounds rather dry to me.
I hate listening to music on FM anyway, so it's not a big deal for me. Still, when I get one of these on the bench, I will see if there's a way to bypass it in hardware. There are two ICs capable of EQ, one of which could be bypassed, but I don't know yet which gets used for what. This would probably be more than most people would want to take on, though.