Specification performance levels for a new tuner or radio

A new tuner/radio should hopefully match or exceed the following,

- Amount of suppression of pilot tone: >55dB

- Amount of spacing per channel: 49 kHz

- Sensitivity: Mono 8dB; Stereo 18dB

- Ratio of noise to signal ability for mono: 70dB

- Ratio of noise to signal ability for stereo: 65dB

- Rate of image rejection: >75dB

- Level of mono distortion: 0.04%

- Level of stereo distortion: 0.06%

- Rate of radio capture: 1.4dB

- Total range of tuning capability: 870 to 109 MHz

- Level of cross talk: -39dB at 1kHz

- Total rejection of IF: >105dB

- Level of suppression for AM: >55dB

- Rate of ohms from aerial input: 2 x 60

- De-emphasis rate: 50US