Where to buy/try a Tangent FM/DAB/DAB+ tuner

[Jim Audiomisc]

I'm wanting to get a *simple to use* FM/DAB/DAB+ tuner that works OK. Partly to access DAB+. Partly curiousity about a modern tuner of modest price compared with ye olde tuners I have already.

The Tangent Tuner II looks like a good example. Question is: who can sell me one, or let me try-before-buy?

NB I did try a different modern tuner a while ago. I found it an utter PITA to setup and use. Multiple submenus to navigate via a *tiny* screen. Shovelware that included FM/DAB/DAB+/Streaming, etc, and - crazy - when unpowered it forgot what you'd tuned to, etc!

Truly awful ergonimics. And I just want a *Tuner* - i.e. FM/DAB/DAB+ that is easy to set up, use, and remebers 'where you put it' over an off-on power cycle. NOT have to 'standaby' eternally.

Help? Ta.

 

[Vinny]

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[John Phillips]

I'm wanting to get a *simple to use* FM/DAB/DAB+ tuner that works OK. Partly to access DAB+. Partly curiousity about a modern tuner of modest price compared with ye olde tuners I have already.

The Tangent Tuner II looks like a good example. Question is: who can sell me one, or let me try-before-buy?

I'm not sure about try-before-buy, but a quick search reveals at least these:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tangent-Tuner-II-Premium-Radio/dp/B07K5HC874?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

Richer sounds: https://www.richersounds.com/tangent-tuner-mkii.html

Superfi: https://superfi.co.uk/products/tangent-tuner-ii

 

[Jim Audiomisc]

Thanks, yes, I'll try one of them and see what happens. That said, my mind is distracted at present by 'domestic' overloads and non-maskable interrupts!

 

[Jim Audiomisc]

Tuner arrived yesterday late in the day. Not yet opened the box but plan to sometime today and have a play with the tuner. FWIW Bought it from Richer. Once I can fathom it's user-interface etc I'll have a listen. Then at some point I'll do some spectra scans of the VHF and DAB RF spectra from my antennas to see what it is being fed. Then at some later point make some parallel recordings from it and a 'known' tuner to then compare analytically.

 

[Jim Audiomisc]

The user interface is a little 'under explained' in the brief note that presents as a handbook. But it is better to use than the previous tuner I tried. Main practical problem so far is that there are soooooooooo many DAB/DAB+ stations that stepping though them to see what 'non-obvious' ones I might want to put on a preset. In use it makes no obvious distinction between DAB and DAB+ stations so you just have to which ones use which protocol.

I guess it is common to only provide one RF input socket for both VHF and DAB despight them being quite different frequency bands. However using a simple VHF dipole in the loft seems to still let the DAB/DAB+ work OK. Does anyone sell RF diplexers for this? I'll ask that elsewhere as well in a usenet group. But so far, so good...