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In Reply to: RE: HD sound quality posted by White Fox on December 28, 2007 at 17:41:09

It can deliver better sonics. This comes from listening to the 16 stations here that broadcast in HD. Many are no better, maybe worse. But the local NPR is beter, the local Pacifica maybe better, but not by much. The junk my wife listens to is worse, the low end is boosted, which makes it boomy.
Since most people have never heard of HD, it lacks support. Car radios need to offer HD. Then it might take off. Not enough people listen to fm for music critically anymore.
On the bits vs bits, it seems to me HD sounds better than wifi. My wifi radio decodes Real and MP3 mainly on line. Even the stations streaming at 128K amd 135K do not match HD sound quality. I think HD is 96K.
The Sangean HDT-1X is a nice tuner. Almost all of the tweaks done by Reference Audio Mods can be performed by most readers here. In side by side comparison of a stock unit to modded, the changes improve the overall sound a bunch. On a good station, with the mods, up to the level of a cheap CD player IMHO. RAM sells their modified HDT-1X for 795.00. My modified HDT-1X may not be as good as theirs.
As you can tell I like HD and hope it is a late bloomer. This Christmas I heard dozens of radio ads from Crutchfield, Best Buy, and NPR for HD receivers on HD radio stations. Fry's even listed the HDT-1X one weekend in the newspaper at 50.00 off. All this might be a last gasp, or it may be just the beginning.

George

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