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In Reply to: No mention of sound quality in your comments posted by dudeupshaw@cogeco.ca on August 14, 2006 at 16:45:24:
How the tuner handles that signal (quieting, etc) is what determines the "sound quality"
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Enough to get the front end well into full limiting on all desired stations!? Without overloading on any of them. But, that DEPENDS, no?Next, selectivity of the radio system as a whole can and will depend a lot on how narrow the antenna's pattern is! No?
Even how regular that pattern is in 3d as we look down the boom. No?
And mind that all this is important before we even consider multipath as a factor.
Ever lived in a 'really really bad multipath area', like a bowl of hills? 1/3 of my city is one, to the extent that TV is retransmitted at low power on UHF/V into 4 reception holes.
All three of the above factors can and do affect the achieved sound quality from FM. No?
So an antenna / antenna upgrade, and where it is put can and thus often WILL affect sound quality. As will the cable as it adds to the noise-temperature. No?
IME I have never failed to hear an improvement even when improving an existing external directional antenna system, used to feed an FM tuner. Right under the tower, too.
So, IME&O it would be best for you to avoid posts which are misleading, or potentially so. Please,
or I'll have to give you the drum again! :-)!
Which you won't like.
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger'Still not saluting.'
Read about and view system at:
... Da Bomb, baby bubba! Have always been able to differentiate vinyl quality KDVS' djs spin, & hear hall acoustics on KXPR's & KPFA's classical programming(& KFBK back-in-da-daze), along with low-level hum on them early stereo recordings! There's all that glorious distortion in them r-n-b auldies Jimmy Acardi play's on his KVMR "Rock-N-Roll Party" pristinely presented! Can damn-near count Bonnie Raitt's cleavage freckles when she's interviewed on "Alice"(KLLC) or KPFA! Whatever's in them grooves-n-pits are reproduced in damn-near studio quality, barring propogational flutter-n-hiss(minimized by Carver's TX1-11 Asymmetrical Charge-Coupled F.M. Decoder)!!!
...that I'd rather have a mediocore tunew with a great antenna than a great tuner with apoor antenna but that's a lie.I'd really rather have a great tuner with a great antenna. Enjoy...
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