new to the madison world here. i had heard about the amazing receive these radios have so i picked one up to check it out. i have been a cobra 2000 user and had high hopes the receive would be as good based on everything i had read. maybe i got a bad one. i had it tuned locally but heres my issue. distant stations sound great but the closer you get the more bassy it gets. if someone is close and loud forget it. i cant even understand them. better receive on my little cobra 25ltd. now this is a first edition 858. stock from what i can tell. i turn the tone all the way to the right and it helps but not enough. i can mess with the clarifier a bit but it makes the good stations sound bad. being an old radio im thinking electrolytic caps may be bad or getting bad. this radio sat in its box for a long time. im looking for the amazing receive its so well known for..what im looking to find out is if theres anything i can do to improve this at all. great looking radio and everything on it works. gets great reports otherwise but i must say the receive is for lack of a better term terrible..i know i can turn it around for a profit but id like to keep it if i can make the receive right...i really look forward to any assistance from my fellow 11 meter junkies..thanks in advance