Not sure where to post this but I am sure most of u folks here who have pre/pros must all use some kind of tuner for radio....any radio...reception.

Does anyone out there make a tuner with am/fm as a minimum that would have an HDMI port or a digital out...

Thanks

http://www.hdradio.com/buyers_guide.php?prime=home

I've not seen it (SPDIF) on any AM/FM tuners unless they are HD. The again, I don't pay close attention to AM/FM :). There's little reason for a tuner manufacturer to provide a digital out since it's an analog signal (again, unless it has HD radio). That's not to say someone doesn't have a non-HD one with a built in A/D converter somewhere.

I'm not aware of any tuners with HDMI outputs.

I'm aware of one FM tuner with a SPDIF output: the Accuphase T-1000. See http://www.accuphase.com/model/t-1000.html . AFAIK, it does NOT tune AM.
As you're asking in the over $20K forum, North American Accuphase pricing may not put you off. (IIRC, the T-1000 is about $2K in Japan, and US Accuphase pricing is usually roughly double Japanese pricing.)

Digital technology is being used more and more in the formerly analog portions of radio transmitters and receivers; the magic phrase is "Software Defined Radio." If your EE and CS skills are up to it, you could probably put something together with GNU Radio and a PC, but I'd expect it to be a, uh, "non-trivial" :) project.

As to what most people do: some pre-pros have built-in tuners, and most pre-pros have plenty of analog inputs. Plug regular tuner into analog input and be happy....

Good luck,
Drew

First question: WHY?

What a strange request.

Analog tuner with HDMI?

Go see these guys...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZutcPUd_AVQ

I'm actually waiting for a new "FM" only radio to be delivered. While looking around, I really didn't see anything of any quality that had AM in it, not to mention any kind of HDMI connection.

What I did see that was rather interesting is that Magnum Dynalab is offering a built in D/A converter as an option.
Of course using their fairly solid analog section that you'll already have.
A fine option at sort of reasonable cost if you happen to need a decent D/A converter.
Not the best D/A converter around but not too bad either and it eliminates another box if that's also an issue.

"The front end of the board is driven by the CS8416 192kHz Digital Audio Receiver from CIRRUS Logic. When combined with the SRC 4192 upsampling op-amp positioned before the audio-rendering PCM 1794 (a 200kHz current output Delta-Sigma over-sampling DAC from Texus Instruments), the result is a perfectly clocked, incredibly accurate signal that is virtually jitter-free."

http://www.magnumdynalab.com/dac-fmtuner-upgrade.htm

The best FM radio available right now looks like a toy. It does not have a digital output, but its RF performance is incredible.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1020511

I DOUBT IT IS BETTER THAN THIS 4 GRAND BEAUT.

http://www.daysequerra.com/images/products/res/R0K2L8R5J2E7D1.jpg

http://daysequerra.com/images/products/res/T0K0J0X2E8L3O3.jpg

I DOUBT IT IS BETTER THAN THIS 4 GRAND BEAUT.

Ya see...now that's what I'm talking about!
For me it was a toss up between the Day Sequerra and a Dynalab with a Triode tube output.

I suppose if all you're concerned about is how well a radio can pull in a station and actual sound quality is a fairly unimportant factor, then the $39 radio (after rebate) is no doubt the way to go.

I've got an Austrian built Eumig T-1000 digital synthesized tuner I bought in 1980 and that thing can pull in a weak station like nothing else.
Unfortunitly, it doesn't sound anything like either Dynalab I've owned nor the Day for that matter.

Speaking to a couple of designers recently, it's of their opinion that you just can't have it both ways. Something has to be traded off somewhere, like most things in this world.

I DOUBT IT IS BETTER THAN THIS 4 GRAND BEAUT.



According to a respected broadcast industry colleague of mine who owns both the Sony and the downscale version of the Day-Sequerra, the Sony's RF performance is, in fact, substantially better.