Hd Radio

Zembonez · November 11, 2007

HD RADIO

I have the bug to try it. Home components are only about 200 bucks and the sound is supposed to be really improved over the typical FM broadcast. There are TONS of HD broadcasters in my area. (46 to be exact)

Does anybody have one?

Are they what they are cracked up to be?

Nytemare · November 11, 2007

yeah This is a good question.

I Know BMW uses them now...so it must be good....right?

I'm not too sure if there are any broadcasters in Canada yet...but I would say I could pick up some from WA.

omegafiler · November 11, 2007

After all the awesome reviews of Sat Radio, I've learned not to trust other peoples opinion when it comes to audio quality. But I might need to pick one up fairly soon to see how it compares to Sat radio, CD, FM, etc. But I gotta say, if it can't hang with CD audio quality - forget it.

Zembonez · November 11, 2007

After all the awesome reviews of Sat Radio, I've learned not to trust other peoples opinion when it comes to audio quality. But I might need to pick one up fairly soon to see how it compares to Sat radio, CD, FM, etc. But I gotta say, if it can't hang with CD audio quality - forget it.

Yeah... I agree with you on that other people's opinion thing. The main point that the HD radio pushes is the giant leap in sound quality since the signal is broadcast digitally. I am not all that sold on Sat radio's quality myself.

Still can't compete with a good piece of vinyl.

I'm going to just have to hear it myself.

JeepTherapy · November 12, 2007

I have the Sangean Home HD receiver running off a simple FM dipole indoor antenna on the 2nd floor of a 3 floor apartment complex about 25 miles from Austin's transmitter towers. I am in the middle of installing one in my truck with my Eclipse AVN6610 Nav unit (which doesn't fit! Please see my other post if you can help me out!)

Anyway, I was surprised at the number of stations that I already listen to that were broadcasting in HDRadio & I didn't know it. Go to HDRadio.com for a listing of stations as well as of equipment available.

I'm an avid audiophile with better hearing than most. Minored in acoustics in college & was a Sonar officer in the Navy. I had satellite radio & cancelled my subscription. (Sirius). Just too much compression artifacts.

I got the Sangean unit that has the digital optical output, and use a Denon 3805 receiver for the D/A conversion playing over a complete M&K 7.2 system (yes, 7 speakers plus 2 subs, although 'officially' the subs are on one channel, not two)

The HDRadio sound is a lot better than FM - that's for sure. Still not sure if it quite rivals CD quality - the jury is still out there. But the end result is I liked it enough to drop some more coin on the unit for the truck - that should say a lot. YMMV.

Nytemare · November 13, 2007

SNIP:
I'm an avid audiophile with better hearing than most. Minored in acoustics in college & was a Sonar officer in the Navy. I had satellite radio & cancelled my subscription. (Sirius). Just too much compression artifacts.

Probably wouldn't matter too much to me than since my low and high ranges are at a 25db loss, and I have mild to moderate Tinnitus.

I'm a Navel weapons tech, similar to a fire control tech, the guns, HP air leaks and hydraulic machinery are loud, power tools are too...My hearing is shot after 5 years of this....

JeepTherapy · November 13, 2007

Probably wouldn't matter too much to me than since my low and high ranges are at a 25db loss, and I have mild to moderate Tinnitus.
I'm a Navel weapons tech, similar to a fire control tech, the guns, HP air leaks and hydraulic machinery are loud, power tools are too...My hearing is shot after 5 years of this....

Dude, I'd listen to someone else's first! I've lost 15db in some ranges from my time in the engineroom (or was that from the 20 years of age?? )

I had some extra cash from cleaning out my closet & selling stuff on eBay, so I went ahead & bought the home unit to give it a try. I figured if I didn't like it, I could sell it & maybe only lose $20 - so it was a cheap experiment.

Zembonez · November 13, 2007

I have the Sangean Home HD receiver running off a simple FM dipole indoor antenna on the 2nd floor of a 3 floor apartment complex about 25 miles from Austin's transmitter towers. I am in the middle of installing one in my truck with my Eclipse AVN6610 Nav unit (which doesn't fit! Please see my other post if you can help me out!)

That's the Sangean component version right?

I am running a Denon 3803... might have to try it out. Im between Austin and San Antonio.

Zembonez · November 13, 2008

HD RADIO

I have the bug to try it. Home components are only about 200 bucks and the sound is supposed to be really improved over the typical FM broadcast. There are TONS of HD broadcasters in my area. (46 to be exact)

Does anybody have one?

Are they what they are cracked up to be?

THREAD REVIVAL!

I dredged up this old thread of mine rather than post another one. It's been a while... and it didn't get much response way back when. Any more input here on HD radio? Anybody else using it yet? Opinions?

Thanks

Clown

thecraft · November 13, 2008

I just hope the government doesn't get the bright (IOW, completely ****ing retarded) idea to end analog radio like they are doing with television in February 2009. If you live in areas with fringe reception, you're shit out of luck.

gave20 · November 13, 2008

If HD radio has commercials I don't want anything to do with it.

rvsahs · November 13, 2008

HD radio, what's that? I'm still jammin' to my kids Fisher-Price radio.....

cfeiring · November 23, 2008

bones

I read in another forum that PAC makes a add on unit for the gm factoryt radio it is 89.00 us dollars this will let you get the hd signals and retain all factory options but it requires another part that actually plugs into the factory radio that was i think 189.00 us dollars this part will allow aux input and control an ipod through the factory radio i think it has 169 in the part number for 29 bit gm xlan system. This is for the gmt 900 trucks which I think you have.

If you are really wanting to try this stuff will try and find the part numbers and get back to ya. But it might be a week due to work schedule. Up comming week I work 7 of 8 days 16 hrs so do not do much during my hell weeks except come home and go to sleep. So please be patient I will eventually get the info if you ask for it.

Zembonez · November 23, 2008

Sure. If it isn't much trouble, No real hurry but I'd like to know. If it gets too expensive, I guess I could go with an aftermarket setup in the truck.

Jury is still out on the home unit. Too many other projects got in the way.

cfeiring · November 24, 2008

Sure. If it isn't much trouble, No real hurry but I'd like to know. If it gets too expensive, I guess I could go with an aftermarket setup in the truck.

Jury is still out on the home unit. Too many other projects got in the way.

ok Zembones

I could not find the posts that I got this info from but did try so I am unable to give the proper source info and am sorry for that I am a member of several gm truck forums; so with that stated here a few links that I saved from the topic that I read below I hope the links will work as I have never tried to post links in a msg before.

first site you just fill in your info and it will display the parts that fit if you go to the home page but i have done a 2008 chevy to get these parts which i think will do the job from my understanding of the posts that I read.

http://www.peripheralelectronics.com?ProductId=276

the above is the needed adapter and below will be the hd tuner which is a seperate part

http://www.peripheralelectronics.com?ProductId=276

and I understand it requires a set of cables which I think is the one below

http://www.peripheralelectronics.com?ProductId=289

that is one vendor

another vendor is below for you to look at is listed below http://search.stores.ebay.com/Specialty-El...Q2dhdrtQQsofpZ0

this is an ebay vendor that was highly rated by one of the posters the two parts that you will need are on the page above and I will give you the parts number/name so that you can look for your self below

PAC uPAC-GM29 iPod Adapter Sierra Yukon Denali Enclave

the above part is the adapter and the part below will be the hd radio adapter/receiver

PAC uPAC-HDRT HD Radio Tuner Add-on Module Interface

now I think the pac units, you just need the 2 above parts and you are good to go; based on my understanding of the posts

now if there was a way with these two groups of products to get blue tooth as well I would be all over these cause I want to have blue tooth as well so I can use my portable phone vs the truck phone-onstar stuff that way I can just let the onstar end and still use the truck mic and speakers for phone hands free stuff.

So anybody that figures this out; please give me a shout will part with money if it can do all the above, there has to be a solution to the above requirements I have.

It will be a while before I can possibly get back due to crazy work schedule that I have