And a last word to all manufacturers about soft muting. GET RID OF IT! No one who knows how a good radio should behave likes it…no one. The developers of the DSP chips have to learn that this fake noise reduction actually makes the radio less listenable, and the manufacturers who use the chips should learn how to control DSP’s extra functions as well as possible to make the radio work the best it can, defeating or reducing functions like soft muting until they hopefully disappear. And if you can eliminate muting while tuning you’ll eliminate another irksome characteristic which appeared with early digital radios, then was remedied, and now seems to have returned. We’ve seen great advances in the DSP chips since they were first introduced a few years ago…let’s hope there will be continued improvement.
