IBOC audio quality ( was Re: [BC] Crutchfield)

[Peter Smerdon]

Rich Wood wrote:
> ------ At 11:16 AM 11/2/2005, Chuck Lakaytis wrote: -------
> 
>> Here is what I find out when a person hears FM in HD Radio.  We have a 
>> new
>> hire, female in her early twenties.  
-snip-
  I demoed HD Rado for her and she was mightily impressed.
>> "Wow, it is like the difference between watching television over the 
>> air and
>> watching on the cable.  I demoed the local Clear Channel AM to her.  She
>> said that it sounded "pretty good" but she also said that nobody 
>> listens to
>> AM anymore except her grandparents!
>>
>>  But what really impressed her?  The IPOD interface.
> 
> 
> You completely lost me with the "Wow, it is like the difference between 
> watching television over the air and watching on the cable." That sounds 
> like the military's coaching of soldiers before interviewing the 
> President. If the difference between analog and digital is that 
> different, the analog must really stink. I'm comparing IBUZ on a very 
> high quality signal with "golden ears" and I hear virtually no fidelity 
> difference between the two. At high levels I hear high end artifacts in 
> digital. I'm also a sharp cookie and a hard worker. A slightly different 
> demo but I also have an MP3 player.
> 
> I really hoped to be mightily impressed. I wasn't.

Rich,

You say you've been listening to IBUZ ... is that AM or FM??
Note, all she said about AM was "that it sounded "pretty good""

I'd suspect from your background, and the coining of the term IBUZ that 
you are focusing on AM.

Or does HD FM have interference issues too??

(Enquiring minds want to know)

p.s. maybe you should call it iBUZ for more acceptance by the younger 
demo...

Cheers!
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Peter Smerdon.

Radio 3mp - Easy Listening
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Melbourne, Australia.
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