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RE: HD Radio guys ... Tell Me What to Buy

The little Sony is a great tuner and will outperform anything near its price. The better your antenna the better it will perform. Where are you located?
In some performance areas such as rejection of multi-path the Sony is very good. This is on non HD analog channels and has been throughly explained by Brian Beezley on his web site.
Some will say HD sounds poor. Obviously they do not have experience with a good HD tuner. If you have a good antenna you will get very good sound but on a poor antenna the bit rate will drop down. HD does not use MP-3 as reported by some but uses ACC which is a 20 year newer codec that sounds very good. Works good on the Ipod too.
Expect to see many new tuner models that use the latest high performance DSP modules. These modules will allow better analog reception and the addition of HD. Some of the best music programing will be on the secondary HD channels as these are less commercial.

Thanks,
Ron-C


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