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Journey 100 sounds soo good but they are missing one thing...

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macab4490

RDS. All Cumulus stations need to display the Artist/Song Track info along with Station ID on RDS-Equipped stereos. Journey 100 does not have RDS since i100 was replaced. I mean, what's the art behind a RDS?!?! Help me to understand. WABB has RDS and the rest of them but Journey 100 does not. Sounds odd to me.
 
I didn't know RDS had a sound, even if it was odd... Bad joke. Sorry. Macab --- it's very simple. CHEAP radio done the Crummy-way. Guaranteed to offer nothing exciting, special or extra. It's
why they'll finally wash up...heck not only is there no RDS with the stations in Nashville (I guess - who knows) --- here they play the same song three or four times in a row with no RDS. Your Journey will begin ... and end...with nothing worth wanting to remember.

Happy New Year to all the VIP's on this board!
 
macab actually raises a point: all of Cumulus' other stations run RDS as far as I know, and i100 did as well.

Here's where it gets really weird, though:

Journey 100 has no RDS but still runs HD.

Jack FM has RDS but they turned off HD (on the area's biggest signal.)

???
 
NOT to mention the 7 second delay on journey 100's digital signal.

It be nice if they put their AM news talk radio on their HD.2 like 96.1 does.

-Rob
 
What's the story with Cumulus and their HD-2 options in P'cola/Mobile? They're doing all sorts of things with those HD2/3 signals up north but no one is really using one here on the gulf coast...

or are they? I just rediscovered CDs and haven't listened to the radio since it started playing xmas music. I'm one part Grinch.
 
Nope, not doing a thing with them here. Only CC is using HD-2s and only WUWF has an HD-3.

On the down side that's less variety for the two or three of us with HD radios, but on the upside the main channel's sound quality is pretty good. Journey and WBLX both sound really nice (not perfect, but nice) in HD.
 
Zach, are the HD audio signals processed heavily like the analog. mobile uses heave processing. the only station that doesn't slam is WDLT and it sounds good. It almost sounds like they are using a optimod 8100.
 
musiconradio.com said:
Zach, are the HD audio signals processed heavily like the analog. mobile uses heave processing. the only station that doesn't slam is WDLT and it sounds good. It almost sounds like they are using a optimod 8100.
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Yeah, going from snoozy NPR to music radio can be quite a jolt here. But I swear, unless my ears are playing tricks on me, that Cumulus changed the processing after dropping i100. It's loud, but not as loud as before, or it has more dynamic range… Something is different.

I suppose it could just be the better (more dynamic) music versus modern top 40.

I'd like to sample WDLT some more but it's too weak to be really usable in stereo here in middle Baldwin County. It takes a beating from 98.1 from about here on east.
 
Does the average listener really care about rds? As for the station itself. It was sounding pretty good. But, it's playlist is starting to get a little stale.
 
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