Talking about the FM radio, one unexpected "side-product" of my recent plunge into the multi-channel world was my re-recognition of how good the FM broadcast can sound. To be honest, until I bought the Pioneer receiver this time, I had never had a radio tuner hooked up to "decent" amps/speakers.
Yeah I know that the audio bandwidth of the FM broadcast only goes up to 15kHz or so, but I found that, to my 42-year-old ears, the local classical station could sound very very good on my Hales/Axiom/Hsu system. It also seems that the DPL II handles the FM materials very well. Now I always play the FM as background music, whenever I am at home. It was quite a nice bonus...
