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HD Radio - Sangean HDT-20 - SPDIF output?

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Posted on December 20, 2019 at 04:56:26
HighEndOne
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I have one of these HD Tuners in my system so I can listen to classical music. I have to say that it sounds OK overall. It's not perfect, but these days you can't find much Classical Radio on the standard FM band in a lot of cities.

My question is this: I have the Sangean feeding my Mark Levinson 360S DAC via the SPDIF connection. The DAC indicates a 48K stream.

Does anyone know anything more about that stream? Is this 24/48? The ML just tells me 48K and that it's internally up-sampling that signal to 24/384.

From what I have read about HD Radio, it seems that the transmitting stations have a lot of control over bit depth and compression.

Thanks... HEO


All the best... HEO.

 

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RE: HD Radio - Sangean HDT-20 - SPDIF output?, posted on December 21, 2019 at 11:41:43
FRG7SWL
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HighEndOne, Brian Beezley, K6STI, didn't review Sangean's HDT-20, but his HDT-1X review mentioned a measured SPDIF rate of 44,100 16-bit samples per second. Hope that helps. 73s-n-Happy Holidays para Sactown

 

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