Since receiving our 990, I’ve been busy designing the entertainment center to accommodate the monster. (Requires 21” interior cabinet shelf depth allowing 1/2” cable radius of supplied power cord, to the front of volume adjust knob.) Looks like a great unit, … so far its only use is as a tuner in the office.

Following are software recommendations to correct some nits & surprising shortcomings I’ve found.

1. FM Mode tuning steps should be on odd 200 kHz frequencies for the US customer base. It’s quite a pain to advance through the spectrum using 0.1 kHz steps. If the unit is marketed to off shore countries with 120-volt power and 100 kHz station spacing, then provide a user selectable frequency step option, (as provided in many $100 CD/AM/FM sound boxes in Wal-Mart).

2. The FM frequency readout presently gives frequency resolution to 10 kHz. Why the extra zero? It is non-sense in the US. How about losing the zero, which will give some visual spacing between the numerals and the MHz letters.

3. AM frequency display, same general nit. How about leaving the letters AM & kHz in place and shifting the frequency numerals one space to the left. That would give a more balanced appearance.

4. I have seen my 990 scan the FM spectrum for stations to store in memory. Is there any way to later “deselect” stations you will never listen too? (to tighten the loop when cycling through your presets)

5. My P.SCAN remote button doesn’t act like the manual states. After a quick push the tuner jumps to the next higher preset, and then after a couple of seconds, merrily continues to cycle through all the rest of the presets. Truly needs to be corrected.

6. After cycling from FM to AM, my 990 will not always accept CH up or down commands to tune to the next 10 kHz AM frequency.

7. When trying to manually preset an AM frequency, the tuner’s front panel display will not always follow the button pushes on the remote. This is a repeatable error. My 990 will not accept a DIRECT four-digit AM frequency “punch in”, but will skip decimal places, and never show all four digits. Nor will it SET the new frequency.


Thanks for having updateable firmware.

Regards ,

Frank Brasington
Melbourne, FL