You know, I love my HDTV but I just don't quite see the point of HD radio. I mean I "get" the whole audiophile scene, I totally understand people who want the best quality at any cost, but I mean, these are RADIOS, for god's sake. We're not talking about carefully planned full-size home audio systems here. These are little shelf systems. They're never going to sound all that great - good, yeah, but not great. And any analog system can sound "good" too.
I mainly listen to the radio in my car, with the built-in sound system. It's a pretty good sound system, but again, the speakers aren't good enough that I'd get any benefit from an HD radio... and if the signal strength is worse, what's the point? As it is, I never hear any static; I have a great tuner. Sounds like I wouldn't get any better sound but would get worse reception with HD radio.
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Jeff @ Mar 28th 2007 7:32AM
You know, I love my HDTV but I just don't quite see the point of HD radio. I mean I "get" the whole audiophile scene, I totally understand people who want the best quality at any cost, but I mean, these are RADIOS, for god's sake. We're not talking about carefully planned full-size home audio systems here. These are little shelf systems. They're never going to sound all that great - good, yeah, but not great. And any analog system can sound "good" too.
I mainly listen to the radio in my car, with the built-in sound system. It's a pretty good sound system, but again, the speakers aren't good enough that I'd get any benefit from an HD radio... and if the signal strength is worse, what's the point? As it is, I never hear any static; I have a great tuner. Sounds like I wouldn't get any better sound but would get worse reception with HD radio.
I just don't get it.