[BC] Re: HD Receiver returns

[Rich Wood]

------ At 11:55 AM 2/16/2007, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote: -------

> > Not really. Processing separately is annoying when the mode keeps
> >  switching back to analog.
>
>Sure, if the difference is really dramatic... but it can be subtle, with
>gentler processing on the digital to highlight the dynamic range... 
>but not to
>extremes.

Trust me. It's very annoying. WBOS, Boston, was/is processing 
separately. About 20 miles out of the city I had to lock the Kenwood 
in analog. I had a very high quality, high powered audio system in my 
Jeep. The difference in audio density and the gain and loss of highs 
was unbearable. If you can't do it the way Bob Orban recommends, it 
isn't worth doing. I don't believe there's a way to gently blend 
grunge processed audio and lightly processed audio with extended highs.

If the receiver is stationary and high quality you can get away with 
it. Put it in a car and move and you've got major problems. One day I 
hope to hear the Sangean component unit with WFCR, Amherst MA. 
(University of Massachusetts). It's lightly processed in analog, HD-1 
and HD-2. No one stocks the unit anywhere nearby and I'm not about to 
buy one. No need, since I already have a receiver and stations with 
dead secondaries. The station pumping out titles and artists is going 
on its 6th hour of no audio. I'll bet if I call them it'll be back in 
4 or 5 minutes. I'm tired of radio station voicemail for today so I'm 
not going to waste my time. I did sadly discover that what I thought 
might be the area's crisis station has no one to answer the phone. 
Even the news department.

> >  Willie, Willie, Willie. Get with the program, however dull it might
> >  be. Read the press releases.
>
>You mean those puff pieces we occasionally see posted here? Written by the
>scriptwriters who make the toy commercials for children? ;)

It's terribly disappointing to see an advertising/PR firm I used to 
respect stoop to the levels of deception they have. Times have 
changed since David Ogilvy wrote brilliant copy for Rolls-Royce. Now 
their stuff is worthy of a Yugo.

> >  It's Seedy Quality on FM and FM quality
> >  on AM. Just because I can't hear it on my IBUZ receiver doesn't mean
> >  it isn't there.
>
>I LOL whenever I read that "Seedy Quality". That's a very good pun!

I can't use CD quality because it's inaccurate. Only those discs that 
follow the Red Book standard can use the logo. It would be like 
putting the THX logo on the current batch of IBUZ table radios.

Rich