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In Reply to: Got some info... HD2 is free but you need to buy a digital receiver. posted by sjb on February 24, 2007 at 19:28:32:
Analog FM stereo, with a decent receiver and a transmitter not driven to the limit will sound better. (I know, that's a lot of 'if's') Actually, FM stereo reception isn't that tough, with a decent antenna and a multipath indicator on the receiver.HD radio uses some lossy compression, like the two satellite radio services do. So, I'm not sure how good that would sound for serious listening on a capable system. Probably ok for background music.
No matter how you slice it, it seems like radio is being "dumbed" down to the level of a Bose car stereo.
Our last commercial classical station here in DC packed it in just a few months ago; happily the PBS station picked up the format (again) and some of the station's personnel and its complete record library. WGMS ("Washington's Good Music Station") had been doing classical music here since at least 1960. The sad thing was . . . they were making money. They had a big, very affluent audience and they sold that to advertisers successfully.
But the owner thought they could make even more money doing sportstalk. God knows why. It's not like there aren't 3 or more other stations in town doing the same thing.
Which reminds me, I need to become a member of the PBS station and put my dollars where my ears are -- I still have a good FM tuner at home!
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- still a step backward - Bruce from DC 19:57:43 02/24/07 (3)
- Amen - PabloP 20:28:20 02/24/07 (2)
- i remember skip - hifitommy 21:52:43 02/24/07 (1)
- You're the only person who's ever said so - PabloP 22:34:00 02/24/07 (0)
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