[BC] IBOC AM Quality

Cowboy curt
Fri Apr 20 09:10:45 CDT 2007


On Friday 23 March 2007 04:52 pm, Robert Orban wrote:

> If you use exactly the same processing on the HD and FM analog channels and 
> modulate each one to its permitted peak level, the HD will be 5 dB louder 
> when the receiver crossfades. THAT would drive the listener nuts. Instead, 
> you use 5 dB less limiting on the digital channel, the receiver fades 
> smoothly from analog to digital, and the digital sounds much less grungy if 
> the analog FM is heavily procesed.
> 
> I keep explaining this but it doesn't seem to have sunk in :-(
> 
> Bob Orban 

 To some of us, it most certainly has sunk in.
 To others, it never will.

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Cowboy



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