[Radio Wrangler]

This is where we get into geographic differences. In some parts of the world with a congested FM band full of commercially competitive stations in a power race, tuners with all the front-end selectivity you can get are needed. In other places with sparsely-populated and well-ordered bands, noise figure is to the fore to give people in fringe areas better S/N ratio.

I find the 'Tuner Information' website amusing with all their shoot-outs trying to find 'The Best' tuner. It's a hopeless pursuit without splitting it up into categories, however they have lots of interesting information on there.

David