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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: HD Radio? Good, bad or ugly? by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-28 
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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 broadc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Was listening HD Radio last night. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-04 
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The HD Radio for a first time in my own room. Hm…. I do not know what to say.  I was listening my “far and ugly” WCRB station and it was “cleaner” in term of noise but it was very different sound. Something is not right with HD Radio and I canno...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Has anyone made any progress on the HD radio front? by scooter on 2008-11-30 
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Has anyone made any progress on the HD radio front?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The HD Radio sucks. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-01 
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I did some listening of the station that reportedly has very high quality of HD Radio and I did not like the result at all. I sound like a normal stream of MP3 file, not particularly high rate of MP3. My WGHB station do feed the HD1 and HD2 with very...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Hd radio/sony xdr f1-hd by doug s. on 2008-12-04 
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hi romy,i like fm.  and i like comparing different tunas.  in the past ten years, i have bought and sold at least a hundred different tunas.  i presently have more than thirty.  easily 90% of my music listening is fm, even in the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: HD Radio is nothing more than FM dildo. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-04 
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Well, Doug My attraction to HD Radio statred from the moment when I learned that my WGBH does one less step of analog compression for DH1 compare to FM and do not use limiting-out  at HD2 for live-to-tape recordings. Very promising, isn’t it?&n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Live radio, we need more of it. by drdna on 2008-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: TU-X1 setup in Off Air Audio  16 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]here is the LIVE recording from today via TU-X1. Purely abstractly, what– what specific character of sound you would like to modify of improved?[/quote]Of course it is NOT being compared to playing directly through the TU-X...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Radio Netherlands’ Live! at the Concertgebouw. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-16 
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I love their programming quite a lot an even the quality of sound despite that they use regular CDs is quite high. http://www.radionetherlands.nl/music/concertgebouw/ Their webcast does a phenomenal work listening if you have a good local FM statio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The new releases from "Music and Arts" by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-06 
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Music and Arts Programs of America, Inc. www.musicandarts.com info@musicandarts.com Tel 510-525-4583 or Fax 510-524-2111CD-1063(2) IN MEMORIAM HANS HOTTER (1909-2003). A selection of Lieder from the Raucheisen project of the German Radio Sy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Very nice… by Romy the Cat on 2014-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another (outdoorsy) sweat spot? in Audio Discussions  17 Replies 
This is what I did: got 75 feet of 3.5mm cable and put the Bose SoundDeck radio in this cable, running it from my main system’s preamp. I need to tell that the sound of that Bose radio when it run by line input is not even near the same as running it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Some HD tuners with digital outputs by scooter on 2008-11-10 
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Hi Romy: I did not find any computer-based HD Radio receivers. The following link to HD Radio receiver Manufacturers does not seem to list any IT firms: http://www.ibiquity.com/manufacturers/receiver_manufacturers So, I spent some time researching H...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: K-horn mid bass sucks and no upper horn will correct it by Wojtek on 2007-08-22 
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I liked your previous post . A week ago I repaired old Telefunken tube radio (Single EL84 with array of alnico speakers ) with FM band and I'm listening to classical public radio for whole week. Not even once I had desire to turn on "big" system I'm ...

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DIGITAL BRITAIN: Government sets 2015 as digital radio switchover date LONDON - All radio stations broadcasting on national and local DAB multiplexes will cease being broadcast via FM by the end of 2015, according to the Digita...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Kitchen radio as a source of immense pleasure. by Romy the Cat on 2012-05-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Forward in the past with old radios. in Off Air Audio  18 Replies 
I can’t stress how much pleasure I get from my kitchen radio. It is not about brand of specific sound that the radio produces but rather the esthetics or it and the location. It happened that in my house a kitchen is a center of activities and traffi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The HD Radio sucks. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-01 
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I did some listening of the station that reportedly has very high quality of HD Radio and I did not like the result at all. I sound like a normal stream of MP3 file, not particularly high rate of MP3. My WGHB station do feed the HD1 and HD2 with very...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Was listening HD Radio last night. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: HD Radio? Good, bad or ugly? in Off Air Audio  7 Replies 
The HD Radio for a first time in my own room. Hm…. I do not know what to say.  I was listening my “far and ugly” WCRB station and it was “cleaner” in term of noise but it was very different sound. Something is not right with HD Radio and I canno...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: HD Radio? Good, bad or ugly? by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: HD Radio? Good, bad or ugly? in Off Air Audio  7 Replies 
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 broadc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Karajan and Bruckner Seventh: Berlin vs. Vienna by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-27 
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I have added to my list the Karajan’ recording with Wiener Philharmonic made in April 1989, sorry I missed it initially. Karajan generally with Vienna is more interesting then with Berlin Philharmonic, not to mention that he is generally better recor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Has anyone made any progress on the HD radio front? by scooter on 2008-11-30 
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Has anyone made any progress on the HD radio front?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: The Belgium Mahler Collection by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
[quote user="JANDL100"] Re: the Mahler "Nanut set" - I think you might find that symphonies 2, 3, 7, 8 & 9 are not by Nanut after all.   But please let me know if I am wrong about that![/quote]I got the CD SET yesterday. Here is what it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The WHRB’s Rimsky-Korsakov’s Orgy by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The WHRB’s Rimsky-Korsakov’s Orgy in Musical Discussions  0 Replies 
My WHRB’s starts the spring Orgy period, the podcast available on-line. http://www.whrb.org/ On May 5th 6MP, WHRB starts to broadcast 3–days long Rimsky-Korsakov’s Orgy with the following program:1865 (rev. 1884): Symphony No. 1 in e, Op. 1; ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: "I read somewhere that 80% of his listening is FM radio. That say... by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best audio source EVER! in Off Air Audio  34 Replies 
Like many other audio-trashes the retards from Audiogon forum have express this “oponoin” “I read somewhere that 80% of his listening is FM radio. That says a lot...lol” http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1319292658&...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Hd radio/sony xdr f1-hd by doug s. on 2008-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: HD Radio? Good, bad or ugly? in Off Air Audio  7 Replies 
hi romy,i like fm.  and i like comparing different tunas.  in the past ten years, i have bought and sold at least a hundred different tunas.  i presently have more than thirty.  easily 90% of my music listening is fm, even in the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: ’GBH takeover of ’CRB alters more than letters by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new FM Classical scene in Boston in Off Air Audio  47 Replies 
Classical station has new business model: support of donors By Johnny Diaz, Globe Staff  |  November 18, 2009 Boston is following a trend in radio that’s taking place in other cities across the nation: Its only 24-hour classical m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The Schaub’s new shoe – actually it is very nice. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Forward in the past with old radios. in Off Air Audio  18 Replies 
A few weeks back as I got the Schaub & Lorenz I pulled the pubes out and measured them on my tester.  The tubes were very week and the output tubes were semi-dead. The Schaub uses a pair of ECL82 tube in output stage. The ECL82 are triode-pentode...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Hm, the Schaub & Lorenz funny tweak. by Romy the Cat on 2011-02-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Forward in the past with old radios. in Off Air Audio  18 Replies 
As I said I did not plan to modify my little sexy German radio in any way. No mater how pathetic it sounds I do like in my kitchen and I heavily use it – expertly as I expected. I however, did mean to change it cosmetically to replace the speaker’s c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: HD Radio is nothing more than FM dildo. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: HD Radio? Good, bad or ugly? in Off Air Audio  7 Replies 
Well, Doug My attraction to HD Radio statred from the moment when I learned that my WGBH does one less step of analog compression for DH1 compare to FM and do not use limiting-out  at HD2 for live-to-tape recordings. Very promising, isn’t it?&n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Miles and miles by clarkjohnsen on 2008-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where the FM quality comes from? in Off Air Audio  22 Replies 
"Miles"? Not, years?WCRB never went dark.WHRB subsists just fine, although CM programming may diminish after David Elliott retires.WGBH could indeed change to news/talk (i.e. crap) but since WBUR gives us a steady of diet of that, probably ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Sewer commercial FM stations, mindless radio listening by misnacat on 2009-10-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Apple helped kill FM...and might help rescue it... in Off Air Audio  2 Replies 
J. Here is a start, If you want live hosts and quality FM broadcast with a wide varity of program material try CBC Radio, available just about everywhere here in Canada including the North West Territorys.Most nations radio stations have large budget...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Ravel's String Quartet; Remarkable! by Paul S on 2009-06-02 
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Last night as I prepared to go to sleep, I double-checked the volume setting on the small clock radio I keep bedside.  It is actually a pretty cool little radio (Kaito KA1107), and I have intended for some time to get better headphones or earbuds for...
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