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Mickey37

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I'm looking into HD receivers. Home, not car. Any recommendations? This guy I know told me to wait til March, for some reason. Still trying to figure that one out.
 
Maybe another price reduction...?
Have heard they can sound great but reception in fringe areas might be difficult. There is an official site
for HD http://www.hdradio.com

More info, links: http://www.hdradio.com/hdradio_buyers_guide.php

and prob. some sites you can check out ranging from manufacturers to stores; personally I don't have
recommendations at this time but who knows. And there is an HD radio board here, too, and maybe you can get some help there:

http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/board,194.0.html
 
Search for reviews on Web at sites that are not connected with iBiquity or the HD Radio Consortium. Any reviews at sites related to iBiquity or the Consortium are suspect; they are trying to get you to buy. The independent reviews I've read suggest that ALL of the radios are overpriced and few to none provide adequate performance. That is especially the case with reception of the FM HD subchannels (there are no HD subchannels on AM). On the subchannels, the reception radius is extremely limited. Unlike the main channel, which flips to analog on a dropout, the subchannels flip to silence. The problem is worse in cars than in stationary radios, because you can fiddle with the location and orientation of a stationary radio but you have little control over the location of your car. Even so, the subchannel performance is not very satisfactory, period. Caveat emptor!
 
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