Listening to IBOC

[k9ez]

Anyone have an IBOC (HD Radio) receiver out there? Have you been able to listen to any of the stations in the area? Thoughts?

 

[Hot947]

IBOC on AM sounds awesome... but KFAN needs to throw some processing on there to smooth things over a bit.

FM doesn't sound much different than analog... and that's at 96Kbps full bandwidth on 100.3 and 107.9. It undoubtably sounds worse than analog when you split the HD station to carry 2 programs at 48Kbps, but thankfully no one in Minnesota's doing that... yet.

> Anyone have an IBOC (HD Radio) receiver out there? Have you
> been able to listen to any of the stations in the area?
> Thoughts?
>

 

[k9ez]

I went to Chicago with my HD Radio to listen to the two stations running two streams. (I do not have a radio capable of the HD-2 stream yet). I was surprised that the audio quality held pretty well. A little more compression but the highs were still there.

I think we engineers are still learning how to process HD Radio. All in good time perhaps.

Agreed, AM is like night and day. If you process FM properly, it can make a decent difference. from what I have heard so far, it appears that the processing for most HD stations are trying to match the analog sound. I am taking a slightly different tack.

People say why do I need my talk station in HD? Well if and when you hear it you will know. It is rather pleasing to listen, less fatiging.



> IBOC on AM sounds awesome... but KFAN needs to throw some
> processing on there to smooth things over a bit.
>
> FM doesn't sound much different than analog... and that's at
> 96Kbps full bandwidth on 100.3 and 107.9. It undoubtably
> sounds worse than analog when you split the HD station to
> carry 2 programs at 48Kbps, but thankfully no one in
> Minnesota's doing that... yet.
>
> > Anyone have an IBOC (HD Radio) receiver out there? Have
> you
> > been able to listen to any of the stations in the area?
> > Thoughts?
> >
>