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Question = High Definition Radio Capabilities

Boston Acoustic is releasing a radio in December (2005) that provides high definition capabilities. The product name is Recepter Radio HD and their web site is http://www.bostonacoustics.com/.

Does listening to FM via High Definition provide increased sound quality? I was told that “the performance of a radio station that now does NOT compress their signal is better today than it will be with HD radio. With HD radio, they will break down the bandwidth to accommodate other channels on the same frequency”,

Do you have any experiences or comments regarding high definition radio? Thanks
hgeifman

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elevick
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Nice to see that you still get quality radio. Pittsburgh doesn't anymore.
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elevick
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You have to do some serious research. Most radio stations are sending out such garbage (compressed or worse)that it probably won't be worth it. Clear channel is a huge culpret-they put everything on a hard drive, compressed with heavy duty, low sound quality sources that will prevent the sound ever from coming even close to a redbook cd through a simple $150 cd player.
I have seen what is local in pittsburgh. WQED, for example, uses single bit sony 300 disc changers when they aren't using their massive hard drives with compressed music-SAD :(
I got rid of my MD101 when I couldn't find any more analogue stations.
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