High definition FM broadcast's ?

I read in a reasent stereophile mag that in "most" FM radio stations the content is stored on a hard drive and played back from the hard drives. Unless it's live I don't think you will able to get the high quility analog experence that you once got from FM. You may as well go XM becuse its all digitized anyway.

Mark

Gentleman, please keep up the brisk and lively discussion on Fm radio. I'm having my HH scott tuner modded with very good results. Just can't seem yet to beat analog tube Fm performance even though the engineering is nearing 50 years old. Now that's amazing even the new 6,000.00 tuners will get crushed by my HH scott tuner. It's not even close! Keep on bringn it on. Now granted that a much different story with the cd's now a days. SACD/looser! Best wishes and thanks for the great input, Joe

That commerical FM station near me is actually also broadcasting in digital. While I do not have a digital tuner I find that the analog sound quality has improved. Might be just all the new equipment they installed.

Pretty funny..
The thread ask about music on PBS.
I comment there is no longer music on my PBS station (they cancelled it all last summer), just news mostly of a political nature (Washington DC, figures).
Then someone makes a political comment by saying that I did.

I missed the live broadcast on WETA, but they no longer care about the music listener. They are more interested in going up against Rush Limbaugh on the taxpayer's tab. I also miss the live Boston Symphony broadcasts when I lived in that area.

For your sake Bignerd100 all I'll say is I said Democrat. You took that to mean Liberal. Thank you for confirming that the Democrat party is controlled by the left. I am actually a former Democrat who is now non-affiliated. There is no place for moderates like me there. While I will never ever be a Republican I find more and more that I have to mostly vote for Republicans by default.

My favorite pbs station now has a digital broadcast alongside the analog one. It has created a significant amount of noise unless I switch my tuner to narrow which of course reduces the quality.

This station has broadcast high quality broadcasts that have kept me entertained for years but the noise makes it unlistenable.

There's also a problem with the engineers understanding how to broadcast with the digital signal and keep the noise down. I believe that's the case here in Portland as I know others with the same complaint. The manager at the station is receptive but the engineering department doesn't care to discuss it and are actually rude to myself and others.

The fact that users will have to also buy new radios will also be a problem as the average joe is happy with what he has.

As stated above the stations will use that one HD channel to broadcast a few low quality channels so they can make more money. Heavily compressed mp3 sound will definitely be a step down.