We shall see next Tues. Despite the apparent lackluster tuner performance, I went ahead and ordered the 1050. It takes 7 days to get to Alabama! AHHHHH! (I should paid the extra $20)

I plan on doing a little test: My current receiver is a crappy JVC that I bought about 9 years ago when I was in high school. You know those electronic sales at the local convention halls? : "Sunday-Sunday-Sunday, get yer KenwoodJVCMagnovox right here, one day only" I paid about $70 for it. I compared the claimed specs on its tuner to the claimed specs on the 1050. I'm assuming that the JVC specs are wildly exagerated because they beat the crap out of the 1050's specs in every single dept. The real test will be hooking both of them up, same ant. and seeing what time it is.

I'll post back about next Wed, or so and let you know what I find. If a receiver of this low quality beats a otherwise high quality 1050, my opinion will be that Outlaw should really put the Tuner on the "things to change on the next 1050 iteration". But they probably already know that! I fully realize that this receiver is more aimed at the HT crowd and not geared toward radio listeners, and that's fine.

BTW: I hope Outlaw does not mind me posting subjects like this on their own web forum. If so, let me know.

-David