McIntosh MR78 Analog Tuner - The Best From McIntosh - Richard Modafferi Modified

General:Many believe this to be the best tuner EVER made.In our opinion it's definitely in the top five. The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: McIntosh MR 78 Tuner"A young engineering genius used a computer to design a filter and the result was the greatest FM tuner ever built" That engineering genius was Richard Modafferi, and if you reverse his initials you get the model prefix for a host of McIntosh Tuners...There is no dial bezel present be we can install one if you'd like to give it a more vintage look. Best of all this unit was modified (upgraded) by the revered Richard Modafferi in 2022, at Audio Classics.From the IEEE Spectrum Website:Richard Modafferi was a senior engineer at McIntosh Laboratory from 1968 to 1974. His first stab at a new tuner that could do better was the MR 77. That model, introduced in 1970, was acclaimed among audiophiles—and it was the subject of an article by Modafferi in the November 1970, issue of IEEE Transactions on Broadcast and Television Receivers