Sony HD radio on sale

[OKCRadioGuy]

I thought I'd pass along a good deal for a radio worthy of FM DX:
https://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wc...w-i-Pod-dock-for-74-free-shipping/383636.html

This radio effectively has the same tuner in it that the famed Sony XDRF1HD has in it, but this is a full-blown radio with speakers and a ipod port. I just bought one for about 83 dollars to my door.

 

[nd2023]

The description is wrong. It is not high definition. AM sounds slightly better in HD if you can see the tower and there are no thunderstorms within 100 miles. FM sounds like a low quality MP3.

 

[radioman148]

The description is wrong. It is not high definition. AM sounds slightly better in HD if you can see the tower and there are no thunderstorms within 100 miles. FM sounds like a low quality MP3.

Are you talking about all HD Radios or just this one?

 

[nd2023]

All the radios with a similar description.

 

[ddsparxx]

I don't have the Sony Ipod-dock equipped HD radio and I don't have an Ipod, however I do have the Sony XDR-S3HD table radio as well as the XDR-F1HD, both perform the same on FM. The 'F1HD needs a tuning knob.

 

[dxer720]

I bought this radio 4 months ago from Sony at $80. It's a sweet radio. I've got it on a C. Crane FM Reflect antenna for FM & a Terk Advantage antenna for AM.

AM HD does sound better than normal AM, but I don't notice much on a difference between FM HD & normal FM.

Some FM stations put less harsh processing in the HD audio, so it sounds like there's more dynamic range.

 

[Don Juan]

FM sounds like a low quality MP3.

You mean it sounds like an ipod? Great! People love Ipods!

All the radios with a similar description.

Nick is anti-HD.

 

[ddsparxx]

The HD radio and tuner I mentioned earlier are superb FM DX machines as I have heard FM HD DX from the tuner from E skip though no subchannels were heard. If the 3 Sony HD radio all the exact 3 front ends and selectivities, then all three are superb FM DX radios. The XDR-F1HD seems to a great AM DX machine with a big loop antenna, whenever the coarse 10 kHz tuning steps and no wide/narrow bandwidth switch are no problem. I have a homemade 2 foot loop that seems to work well with the XDR-F1HD.

 

[spunker88]

The description is wrong. It is not high definition. AM sounds slightly better in HD if you can see the tower and there are no thunderstorms within 100 miles. FM sounds like a low quality MP3.

This is so true. And the HD in HD radio doesn't actually stand for high definition, it means hybrid digital yet everybody things it means high definition. High definition is supposed to mean any video greater than NTSC quality of around 480 pixels, whether its digital or analog. Im not sure how audio could be higher definition, unless they are referring to greater quality or audible frequency range (which may be the case with digital on AM). But on FM a good station that doesn't overcompress their signal before they send it via microwave to their transmitter sounds just as good as a CD and definitely better than the compressed HD sound.