Over 30 and still going strong. Roof aerial. Long may the FM signal continue. Live music on a tuner is a great listen.
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A lot of my purchases were done based on the shootouts by the late Jim Rivers. He systematically compared tuners to each other and tested them both on reception and sound. His website is still online, many of you might have seen it before: Tuner Information Center - Shootouts
Really worth a visit. Forum members have started a shootout 2.0 series, which is a really nice initiative. 
Enjoy!
BR,
Richard
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David, I have a later grey set of FM4, 44, and 606 that were all purchased together by their previous owner and which go together rather nicely. Remember that the 66 series was beset with problems that meant it was delayed again and again so the 606 was around before the rest of the series eventually appeared (and then swiftly disappeared).
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One of my favourite tuners is the Technics ST-8077K, seen here in an earlier incarnation of my system;
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Old photo but still have it, Denon Tuner S10. One of the best tuners built according to the Swedish Sound Technology Association 
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There was a Quad 67 preamp and a 66 FM tuner that would have matched your 67 CD player and the 606 better from an appearance point of view, but I doubt they would have improved the sound quality performance any.
The 67 CD player was highly regarded and only improved upon when Quad brought out the 99 CDP, or more especially the 99 CDP2. (The 77 series was a bit of a false start and best forgotten).
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My ARCAM DT91 FM+DAB Tuner. I have a 6 element dipole aerial on the roof which picks up local stations from the Rowridge transmitter on the Isle of Wight. Surprising for me was that I can pick up some stations from the north of France too.
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My 44 was new when I bought it, indeed only just launched. The 606 Mk 1 I bought second hand and they are both shades of Quad brown. My original FM4 that I bought new also immediately on launch, now lives in Suffolk. Years later I swapped it for two 5m lengths of properly terminated NAC 05 and so the current grey FM4 in my attic I bought second hand a few years later when my friend wasn’t persuadable to sell my original back to me!
I did subsequently have the whole 99 pre/CD/FM/909 setup, but sold it to a local friend when I made the transition to Naim. The 606 came in handy when the 909 developed a fault a year later and my buyer had to send it back to Quad for a service. I always thought the 606 sounded just a tad better than the 909.
And I could write at length about my original Quad 22/Quad FM with optional stereo decoder/Quad II system, but I will save everyone from the big thread drift!
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I’ve got one of these, a Teac TX3000, in my lockup. I should really retrieve it, I seem to remember it was a pretty good-sounding tuner, and I ought to get back into FM, what with listening to much more R3 these days. Trouble is I don’t have an FM aerial. Does anyone here know if it would work off a TV aerial?
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Depends where it’s pointing but yes.
You’ll have to find out your local radio transmitter location.
Or you might be lucky like me TV and Radio are across the road from each other. 
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All that remains of the system that I had when I first got into Naim gear almost 40 years ago - a Creek 3040 tuner. It is attached to a whip antenna mounted on the roof of our home, which was built in the mid-80s when the new and trendy thing to do was to pre-wire new homes for phone and cable connections (internet - what’s that?). We don’t use it much since purchasing an NDS in late 2018, as we can get local radio through the streamer.
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What would such fettling consist of, and is it something you could do yourself (e.g. pop it open and replace some key parts) or is it a specialist job?
I have a 35 year old Creek 3140 and it works very well, aside from its tendency to drift, which I’ve always assumed is down to my using an indoor antenna instead of a proper rooftop jobbie.
Tuner alignment is definitely a specialist job and not something to attempt if you don’t know what you’re doing and don’t have the necessary equipment.
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Hi @Corry
@Richard.Dane has beat me to it calibrating a tuner for drift is a very specialist job to do I was lucky a local Radio Ham had a plethora of gear for all this.
But not sure where to go now.
It’s not anything to do with the antenna really sorry.
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When I bought my Rotel tuner I demo’d the Creek and exactly that, very impressive sound but wandered all over the place.
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And still no A&R T21 or Rogers T75 series 2 to be seen…
(Both were lovely for me in my pre Naim life).
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I have a couple of T21s (with matching A60s) I can photograph for you Chris. And also a Delta 80/Delta 90 pairing. The Delta 80 was rather good and was originally going to be named the T25 and the Delta 90 amp, the A70.
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Over the years I have had the following.
Kenwood not sure what model but sound 1978.
Quad FM3 along with a 33 and 303.
Quad FM4 along with a 44 and 405.
Nytech CT602 used in a Nytech ARC202 active system.
Naim I think it was a 01 anyway it had a drum tuning wheel.
Hitachi FT5500 Mk11.
Denon TU1800DAB which is stored.
A friend had a Tandberg 3011A tuner in a Naim , LInn Sara system which was a stunning tuner he preferred it to a Naim tuner at the time.
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The Naim tuner with the revolving display was the NAT101. The display was made from the bottom of a plastic jug, or something equally outlandish.
