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Is HD radio worth it?

Have you ever used HD radio? Is the sound quality significantly better? What about all the extra stations? Does it justify the cost of upgrading?
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albanian | 3 years, 3 months ago
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It depends upon where you live and what you listen to. For me the answer is yes. I listen to public radio to hear classical and jazz. I am quite far from the stations. I stopped listening to FM because of the noisy reception until I bought an HD receiver. Since then I have not only been able to enjoy the two stations within range, but one of them has an extra channel that I can choose.

If you are getting good FM reception and enough stations now there may be no benefits. The actual sound is not higher fidelity.

I don't know about using HD in a car, it seems likely that reception would be difficult as you drive around.

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albanian | 3 years, 3 months ago Report

I work in an unrelated field and have nothing to do with radio except that I have been an NPR fan for many years. How anyone can stand commercials is beyond me. More to the point in answering this Mahalo question, I have an HD radio and am happy with it. It is a Sangean component tuner.

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drw9798 | 3 years, 3 months ago
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I use it it to listen to AM stations that are broadcast on HD Radio in my cubicle at work. There is no way I could pick up the AM signals in the building, but FM works just fine. Although it does drop out every now and then.

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mampersat | 3 years, 3 months ago
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I'd say no - if you're in a car the noise of the car will cancel out improved reception - and if your at home you're better off streaming from the internet.

If you don't have high-bandwidth internet at home than you probably also are not in range of an HD radio broadcaster.

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