[BC] HD Radio Article

[Goran Tomas]

--- At 26.2.2006 12:10, Dave Martin wrote: ---
>My pick for sound quality at lower streaming rates would be AAC.  A 32 kbps
>AAC stream sounds better than a 64 kbps WMA stream in my opinion.  A 64 kbps
>or higher AAC stream is truly amazing.  But any listener with a core Windows
>system (even XP) cannot listen to this stream.  They have to download and
>install one of the latest players like Winamp.

You are, I belive, referring to aacPlus, not AAC.

aacPlus uses SBR technology to build on AAC codec and produce more 
high frequency content that the AAC codec could do by itself.

There's an article in February issue of Radio Guide that tries to 
explain this.

More info is also available here: 
http://www.codingtechnologies.com/products/sbr.htm


Regards,
Goran Tomas