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Enlightened
I've been losely in the market for a couple small stereos/boomboxes, one for my son's room and one for the wife and I when we are outside enjoying nice weather (not now obviously). I've really just been looking for something small and cheap - nothing fancy. Essentially the only features I cared about where CD player, integrated speakers, and digital tuner. The digital tuner has always been important to me because you just get a much better lock on the station when it's being tuned digitally.
I have been very surprised to see a lack of cheap boomboxes (less than $50) that have a digital FM tuner. I know I can find them online, I'm not looking for suggestions, but rather was posing the question of why are analog tuners still in such widespread use? It's not like the digital FM tuner is such new technology. I had a tape player Walkman in high school that had a digital tuner and tons of presets that was less expensive than the cheapest digital tuner boomboxes available at Wal-Mart and Target 15 years later. What gives? Are there benefits to the analog tuner I'm unaware of? Is the digital tuner technology really that much more expensive? I honestly thought that analog technology would be completely phased out by now.
I have been very surprised to see a lack of cheap boomboxes (less than $50) that have a digital FM tuner. I know I can find them online, I'm not looking for suggestions, but rather was posing the question of why are analog tuners still in such widespread use? It's not like the digital FM tuner is such new technology. I had a tape player Walkman in high school that had a digital tuner and tons of presets that was less expensive than the cheapest digital tuner boomboxes available at Wal-Mart and Target 15 years later. What gives? Are there benefits to the analog tuner I'm unaware of? Is the digital tuner technology really that much more expensive? I honestly thought that analog technology would be completely phased out by now.