As long as we're posting links, how about this one?

[R.F. Burns]

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue30/sangean_hdt.htm

 

[radiopilot]

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue30/sangean_hdt.htm

Who cares about the review? I posted a review of tha Sangean already... REMEMBER?

And suppose the review was good only 5 people would buy the radio and be listening in any given city... read the below link if you're up to it....

http://www.hutchnews.com/news/regional/stories/radio102106.shtml



Quote:

"For a radio station, it's a hundred or a couple hundred thousand dollars to implement HD radio," said Cliff Shank, with Hutchinson's KSKU, KXKU and KGGG. "And it's hard to justify an investment of $100,000 if only five people in Hutchinson have HD radio receivers."

Quote:

"To retrofit all of our equipment would be expensive," Younkin said, "and there may never be enough interest in it to make the change."


Yeah the recievers are FLYING off the shelves...


Radiopilot

 

[OKCRadioGuy]

I have other HD rigs and I have to say this unit is the BEST overall I've seen so far. I LOVE mine! There's lots of extra stuff built in to this unit for diagnostics and signal strength. They also kept analog RDS (with display options on how YOU want to see it) in their design of this unit.

For anyone that's looking for a good seperate tuner, regardless on your take on "HD", I'd seriously consider getting the HD-1.

 

[Mike Walker]

Great review. "Who cares?" MOST PEOPLE HERE! EVERYBODY but about 3 or 4 (as far as I can tell). I sure do (care).

I love to read tuner reviews, anyhow. I miss the ones by Don Scott on Stereophile, and Len Feldman in Audio!

 

[Chuck]

It's a very good tuner for $200. You'd be hard pressed to fiind a better stand-alone analog tuner at the price. If the HD feature is important to you, then it is a bonus. Personally, I like the the RDS display. It shows all encoded information, without scrolling or having to switch through various menus.

 

[Tom Wells]

It's a very good tuner for $200. You'd be hard pressed to fiind a better stand-alone analog tuner at the price. If the HD feature is important to you, then it is a bonus. Personally, I like the the RDS display. It shows all encoded information, without scrolling or having to switch through various menus.

Can I tune continuously on AM, so as to avoid undesired interference by selecting the cleaner AM sideband?
Not 1 Khz steps, continuous.
Is the analog AM detector encumbered with low-pass filters which I detest unless properly implemented as "tone" or "bandwidth" controls?
Does the AM input section include a Tuned RF stage, or is the door wide open on the mixer input?


If not, then the Sangean is a one trick pony, as I still need all my others radios anyway.
There are other features I am interested in, but I consider these to be the minimum, if a radio is to be of use to me.

I stopped listening to commercial FM 20 years ago, so I have zero faith in the idea that there's ever going to be any HD2 or 3
streams of interest to me from the same people who still can't even make the first stream interesting.
Only college/university/independent FM seems capable of making radio in the manner of fresh cooked food.
All other outlets serve a carefully concocted formulaic product, just like "food service" food from "Olive Garden," et al.
I have problems with products being SO uniform, remotely prepared yet presenting themselves as "fresh cooked".
Unless it's understood beforehand, like with White Castle Hamburgers, or other obviously cheap food.

<suspicious thought from my wallet>
It's just a converter that works to pick up those fuzzy new AM stations in one special place and all the other radios are still
going to be hissy and muffled.



Someone please record something like AM 860 from Toronto at night, when hi-fi music is broadcast.
I would love to hear how good the Sangean sounds on AM analog.