Marantz ST7001 XM Ready AM/FM home tuner

I'm not a radio guy. Talk radio strikes me as little more than commercialized high-school agit-prop. The ads are ridiculous. The playlists are overly homogenous. And because I actually tend to listen to music rather than simply use it as a distraction, or as background, radio is clearly not a medium aimed at me. But still, there's NPR, there's Air America, there's the occasional demand to address the common need for something pleasant in the background while guests are present. And so in middle age I have at long last succumbed and bought my first-ever stand alone tuner. I installed the Marantz to supplant the unsatisfactory performance of the tuner section of the Linn Klassik we use as a preamp for the general household system, and the improvement is remarkable. Great functionality, near CD quality sound and -- so far -- rock solid reliability. Who would have thought that a Marantz would so easily outperform a Linn in so many ways?