[BC] Sangean HD component tuner and Infusion portable Internet radio

[Robert Orban]

At 06:38 AM 12/20/2006, Rich Wood wrote:
>------ At 04:39 AM 12/20/2006, James Somich wrote: -------
>
>>The unit has nice audio quality on my big system. It is easy to use. I have
>>no complaints on the sensitivity. I can't get WJR(AM) in HD, but they are 65
>>miles away (as the crow flies).
>
>Are there any stations in your market processing separately? Can you tell 
>the difference when it switches to digital? A former CC employee on this 
>list says their stations are but both analog and digital are identically 
>processed here, so I can't hear any difference on my Accurian. I wish I 
>had waited and bought the Sangean. The audio sections of all the table 
>radios are pretty dull and lifeless. One thing I don't understand is why a 
>component digital radio wouldn't have digital outputs.

There are plenty of stations in the San Francisco and Los Angeles markets 
processing HD properly (i.e. with separate, optimized peak limiting on the 
FM analog and HD channels). I hear the biggest difference on hip-hop 
formats -- the FM analog sounds dynamically flat by comparison to the HD. 
When the HD kicks in, the drums and percussion start to punch -- you can 
"feel the kick drum in your gut." This makes perfect sense -- the HD 
channel has at least 5 dB less peak limiting on the drums compared to the 
analog channel. I am hearing this easily on my BA.

Bob Orban