Talking about the integrated FM tuner in today's AV receivers... Browsing through various receivers in my local Ultimate Electronics the other day, I noticed that there are fairly significant differences among brands in the RF "sensitivity" of the tuner. Although I bought the Elite 45TX sight unseen with respect to tuner reception (I wasn't at all interested, although now I am), the Pioneer seems to have a very decent FM tuner. Even with the included "single stretch of wire" antenna (Alan, even the T-antenna wasn't included -- just a wire), the reception is very audibly better than all other "tuners" in my house. I guess I was just luckey.