[BC] I got my HD radio

Rich Wood richwood
Thu Dec 8 21:04:51 CST 2005


------ At 03:52 PM 12/8/2005, Robert Orban wrote: -------

>If there is ANY L/R clipping appearing in the HD channel processing 
>of a station, then someone made a big mistake setting up the 
>facility or the processing. In Optimod HD processors, there are no 
>clippers in the HD channel so you couldn't purposely add L/R-domain 
>clipping even if you wanted to. L/R clipping is just about the worst 
>thing you can do to a low bit rate codec because the codec starts 
>wasting bits trying to encode the clipping distortion.

Radio shack has experienced a run on Y adapters. When you receive 
your radio you'll discover there's one processor feeding both. Robert 
has discovered that in New York and I've unearthed it in New England. 
It appears that stations are trying very hard to make analog and 
digital sound the same.

Rich

Rich Wood
Rich Wood Multimedia
Phone: 413-303-9084
FAX: 413-480-0010



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