AVI’s DAB Laboratory Series Tuner

Sadly we've decided to stop making DAB tuners because there isn't worthwhile demand and because there are so many (10,000 allegedly) online radio stations that provide vastly greater choice and often, superior sound quality to our own terrestrial offerings. A Mac Mini and a Pair of ADM9s opens up a whole new world and provides an escape route from mostly appalling and grotesquely overpaid DJ's playing music that we have to believe has had the copyright payment waived because surely nobody would buy it.

Another reason to look further afield for music (and news) is that in our opinion the BBC is horribly biased on numerous issues. It's blatantly competing with the commercial channels by producing populist crap, paying vast salaries to get the "best" presenters and spending £4 Billion of tax payers' money a year to do it. It's high time it was cut loose from the Public Purse and made to pay its way or close down. If there are now over 500 TV channels and 10,000 radio stations to choose from, surely we should be allowed (rather than forced) to choose what we pay for.

Before expressing these opinions we did a search an online search on BBC bias in and found a great deal to support our views.

AVI and radio

 

We at AVI care passionately about all aspects of audio but most about radio, for radio is where it all started. The oldest in our collection was made by the AJS Motorcycle Company in 1925; just two years after the BBC started broadcasting its first station, 2LO. The AJS is a two valve, battery powered set, one is a super-regenerative receiver and the second, an output Triode producing pure Class A – The sort of thing those known as anacrophiles dream about. It is the output stage of a radio that eventually found its way into another box and became a Hi Fi amplifier. Mind you, wherever the Americans went after WWII and installed a telephone system, their triode Class A telephone line amplifiers were quickly pressed into service for Hi Fi, eventually extremely expensive “High End” ones were made and sold using the same Triodes – not by AVI though!

Enthusiasts of early radio will enjoy www.vintageradio.co.uk