[BC] IBOC AM Quality

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Goran,

Thanks for the left-handed complement. :) I did that work along with Glynn
Walden.

-Frank Foti

Broadcasters' Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net> writes:
>--- At 23.3.2007 12:52, 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.
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>Whoever included that 5dB difference in the standard, did a service 
>to everybody... It now implicitly forces digital audio to be less 
>processed even if the station's CE/GM/PD prefers heavy processing, at 
>least in this transition period with analog FM still alive (which may 
>prove to be quite long). It is a clean start and a chance for radio 
>to have better audio.
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>Regards,
>Goran Tomas 
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