Thanks to both of you for the reply. Yeah, I'm not quite sure what to do here. It seems like every time you come across a product that's a super value, does everything great, etc., there's always one small flaw. Maybe the next iteration of the 1050 will have a different tuner in it. It can't be that difficult/expensive to stick in a competent tuner whose performance falls in the ballpark of the mass-market crap that's being sold.

One option would be to keep the old el-crapo tuner around. I can already hear the comments from my buddies ("why didn't you just get a SonyYamahaTechnicsPioneer MXXX? I can pick up stations a jillion miles away!"). I live in an apt. so an outside ant. will not be possible, although I do live in the city. Perhaps being inside the city will get me by along with some sort of Terk amplified ant.

I guess that's what the 30 day policy is all about! If the FM performance is really that bad I'll send it back. If it's tolerable but not good I'll keep it. Thanks again for your help,

-David