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Sangean PR-D15 soft mute

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Was there ever a firmware update- from v.1 to a v.1.2 or v.2 that improved on the muting of weak AM signals? I put off buying one 'till now and still got the lame "soft-mute".
 
I don't have a PR-D15 but a PR-D5, and it has no soft muting, thankfully (it's a recent one, almost two years old). It does take a bit for the chip to 'tune' the antenna to the frequency.

The two radios are supposedly the same radio, with some operating differences (tone controls on the PR-D15, etc.).

How does the PR-D15 soft mute? Do the weak signals cut down drastically once they decrease in signal strength?
 
Is it actually soft muting or a poorly implemented AGC? I've got a PR-D15, and weak signals are very soft, but they don't ever pop out/in like weak signals can on my Tecsun PL-380, which definitely does soft mute.
 
Same here, Jim.

I've noticed the AGC isn't incredibly 'hot' on my PR-D5. But there's definitely no soft-muting, which I do have on one SiLabs chipped radio, the Radio Shack Pocket Radio, where weak signals cut down by about 3-4 db, and it's at a definite threshold that it happens. On the PR-D5 the signals will dip during fades, but it's not soft muting.
 
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