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The tuner is very fast too, which means that even polls to weak stations are hard to hear.


That's very true. I sometimes demonstrate this to passengers by saying, "Listen to this," as I switch between two frequencies of the same station. The usual response is, "Listen to what? I can't hear anything different." Which is exactly the point.
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