[BC] About this HD Radio receiver

[Rich Wood]

------ At 08:14 PM 12/12/2005, Robert Orban wrote: -------

>The San Francisco market is well equipped with HD FM stations, 
>including several already programming their HD-2 streams. Probably 
>the most pleasant surprise was the smooth jazz station at 103.7, 
>which was programming uncompromising music for serious jazz lovers 
>on its HD-2 stream (some classic bebop when I was listening).

If they listen to radio, San Franciscans are very lucky. Come to the 
East Coast. You won't find the same attention to sound. Boston is one 
market size different from SF and only a single station is obviously 
processing separately and none have secondaries that aren't 
programming the same as the main. None were offering any data.

I'm very surprised you didn't notice any artifacts. Especially on 
Classical and speech. I haven't heard the HD version of the radio. On 
my mono version the fidelity isn't good enough to detect the 
subtleties of a mix. With the car receiver, road noise blots such 
things out. That assumes anyone cares enough to process separately. 
Here they don't. For the time being, my part of the country provides 
no reason to buy an expensive HD receiver.

In another message you mention cars being returned because of a 
radio. I'm from a car dealer family. The windshield antenna brought 
more cars back for warranty service than almost anything else. 
Customers were very upset when they found out nothing could be done 
under the warranty. Only a few were willing to pay to have a standard 
antenna installed.

Rich


Rich Wood
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