Bose processing...was Re: [BC] QUESTION FOR THE "MIND" MASSES

[Mike McCarthy]

Speaking of jumping off the dial.  I had a rental with a AC/Delco BOSE 
system for a few days and noted a few stations JUMPED out of the dash while 
most others simply were there.  This is not evident on most radios. Just 
the Bose system exhibits this feature.  And it's not 5.1 either.  But it 
sure makes it sound like 5.1

All of the stations were in the tier of loud to VERY loud processing.

The one commonalty to them all is they had Omnia's on the air.  But other 
stations also running same didn't.  Even the very same boxes running 
similar settings.  What's going on in the Bose or Omnia box? Any ideas?

MM

At 10:33 AM 12/8/2005 -0500, Robert Meuser wrote
>Bob:
>
>My experience is that the difference is too small to matter. Surprisingly 
>this includes most AM HD. You and Frank have done too good of a job making 
>the processing transparent that it is hard to tell the difference.  I am 
>beginning to think more in the direction Frank wants to go. 5.1 would jump 
>off the dial better. At the end of the day multicast and other features 
>will make or break IBOC - I am not and never had heard an audio quality 
>issue. In the past I have heard some really horrendous audio on AM. 
>Frequency response is trumped by cascaded codecs.
>
>R