Rotel RT-850AL Tuner

In the Eighties & Nineties, Rotel were one of the go-to brands for people making that first step onto the Hi-Fi ladder. Here we have one of the brands excellent budget tuners, with digital tuning that covers the FM and AM bands. It won a Hi-Fi Choice “Best Buy” rating and is an easy to use item with a 5 LED signal strength indicator, FM stereo indicator plus switches for band, mode, and filter settings. It is in fully working condition, with some marks and blemishes – please see photographs and will be suitably packaged, comes with manual, square loop antenna plus our normal 3 month warranty.
Rotel Say….
The Rotel high standard tuners. Exclusively designed to deliver unprecedentedly very musical quality out of broadcasting performance. The specially selected stereo decoders, the well-built, dependable front-ends, the convenient electronic tuning and presets, the no-nonsense and useful controls. Even the power supplies are developed with a close care with lots of spare energy to get clear details out of music signals.
Each has been thought out and developed thoroughly to complement the Rotel renown amplifiers. While all the tuners sound outstandingly good in their own right, they perform spectacularly well together will all the other Rotel components – as they are so conceived as parts of the Rotel super performance system.
Specifications:
FM Tuner Section:
Usable Sensitivity (mono): 5 dBf/0.95 µV (75 ohms)
50 dB Quieting Sensitivity: Mono: 8.8 dBf/1.5 µV (75 ohms); Stereo: 31.2 dBf/20 µV (75 ohms)
Signal-to-Noise Ratio (at 65 dBf): Mono: 80 dB; Stereo: 75 dB
Harmonic Distortion (at 65 dBf): 1 kHz – 0.07% (mono); 0.25% (stereo)
Frequency Response: 30 to 15,000 Hz, + 1dB, – 1dB
Capture Ratio: 1.0 dB
Alternate Channel Selectivity (± 400 kHz): 63 dB
Spurious Response Ratio: 95 dB
Image Response Ratio: 70 dB
IF Response Ratio: 95 dB
AM Suppression Ratio: 58 dB
Stereo Separation: 100 Hz/1 kHz/10 kHz; 43 dB/46 dB/38 dB
Subcarrier Product Ratio: 60 dB
SCA Rejection Ratio: 70 dB
Antenna Input: 75 ohms unbalanced
AM Tuner Section:
Sensitivity: 350 µV/mm (MW); 750 µV/m (LW)
Selectivity Wide / Narrow: 27 dB/42 dB (MW); 25 dB/40 dB (LW)
Signal-to-Noise Ratio: 60 dB
Image Response Ratio: 40 dB
IF Response Ratio: 40 dB
Antenna: Loop antenna
Power Requirement: 120 V/60 Hz, 220 V/50 Hz, 240 V/50 Hz or 120, 220, 240 V/50-60 Hz
Power Consumption: 10 watts
Dimensions: 444 (W) x 329 (D) x 66 (H) mm
Weight: 3.9 kg