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I spoke today with WGBH engineers about many aspect of broadcasting and the quality that we, the end users are getting and among many other things he did pitched to me the idea that I am considering to try – the HD radio. According to him WGBH broadcasts quite good HD, better than others and I might try to see what happens.

I have no personal experience with HD hear it a few times, nothing critical though and this HD concept is a new thing for me. He suggested trying a Sony XDR-F1HD receiver that I just ordered from Amazon for $75.

http://ham-radio.com/k6sti/xdr-f1hd.htm

http://theaudiocritic.com/plog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=35&blogId=1

http://home.comcast.net/~dlp85x/review.htm

http://pages.cthome.net/fmdx/sonyxdr.html

I intentionally posed a few links to what other say as I have absolutely no opinion about the nether HD Radio or about the Sony XDR-F1HD unit. I would feel that the feedback about the success of HD Radio would greatly vary with the quality of HD Radio broadcast. My WGBH guy suggested that some of the things that WGBH do is much better than others do… well, I would not go it the specifics and $75 is not true a great price to try.

I let you know about my HD Radio findings and if any of you have any experience with HD Radio then let me know. I am NOT optimistic but I have open mind about it and I would let the thing to have a chance to show off what it is able to do… The WGBH broadcast HD Radio in 16/44. If it is a pure live 16/44 feed without rendering into a CD then it might be VERY interesting. The question is how much the HD Radio time synchronization would destroy sound.  With MET broadcast it was horrible. Now let see how my local station do it…

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