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[Tom Wells]

HD2 on FM integrates seamlessly with the radio experience people expect. You tune an HD radio the same way you tune a conventional radio, only more stations appear. If those new stations are playing something you want to hear, you listen. It's as simple as that.

You think so? My Chevy radio with XM has six banks of pre-sets, each with six buttons. Just push one, and a channel comes up almost instantaneously. Otherwise you can spin the "tuning" knob, just like a conventional radio. My Sangean HDT-1 takes more effort than that because it pauses on each station for 7-8 seconds waiting for the HD signal to buffer. I know that 8 seconds doesn't sound like much, but when you are tuning the radio, it seems like an eternity. It seems even longer when each channel is something you have no interest in listening to.

I can't even tolerate the 1 second or-so mute on 10-khz step-tuned Delphis on the AM. There's no excuse for it, and if
you want to do a quick scan of the dial, it's such a pain. Oy. It takes 2-3 minutes to step-scan the AM.
I found the dial-spin XM's tuned much like a regular radio once selected to sat.
The sound that comes out however, does not seem like radio, but a granular, sparkly thing like unto only other low-bitrate streams.
Cassettes sounded better, but sat does sound better than 8-tracks.