[BC] I got my HD radio

[Robert Meuser]

Rich:

What I am hearing seems to be that the CODEC is being pushed too hard by the 
processing. All the stations I have heard in NYC are properly set up and blend 
well. You can fairly well who has and HD OMNIA or Optimod. The problem is that 
when the multiband is set up for competitive analog, the CODEC is processing a 
lot of energy, possible beyond its test parameters. I listened to some Opera on 
WNYC last night, the digital seemed to be slightly more constrained than the 
analog.  Remember this is all consumer grade audio not a high end system.

R

Rich Wood wrote:
> ------ At 02:22 AM 12/9/2005, Robert Orban wrote: -------
> 
>> If they are doing this and they have one of the all-in-one processors 
>> from Orban or others, they are wasting the capability of the 
>> processing. With our FM/HD processors, a given output can be switched 
>> from FM analog to HD processing with far less effort than it takes to 
>> install a Y connector. It's incomprehensible to me why a broadcaster 
>> who had such a box would not take advantage of its full power.
>>
>> I know for a fact that many west coast stations with 8500s are using 
>> them as designed.
> 
> 
> As a listener I agree with you and hope, some day, that radio will be 
> taken seriously as a critical listening medium. Until then, probably 
> when analog goes away, stations aren't going to want dramatic 
> differences between modes.
> 
> At the moment this is little more than mental gymnastics. In my market 
> its only HD radio not owned by a station is about to be sent back to its 
> owner. 100% of HD listening in Western MA is about to disappear.
> 
> Perhaps the 8500s sent to the East Coast have been delayed by the snow.
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
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