You have to remember what a sync detector is really supposed to bring to the
table: a significant reduction in distortion during deep fades. This
effect is dramatic and very noticeable. All sync detectors do this. The
best sync detectors are also sideband selectable and therefore provide the
same adjacent channel interference reduction that ECSS does because you can
select sync only on one (or the other) desired sideband. Some portables
provide this type of sync detector and it's a very desireable feature.
--
Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

"T. Early" wrote in message
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"Al Arduengo" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any experience to verify that a portable that has
syncronous detection (7600G) does (not) perform noriceably better
than
one that does not have it? More specifically, would a newbie notice
any difference?


I would definitely agree with Ron, above, that it depends on how good
the SD is, and would add that it may depend on where -you- are. For
perspective, I have used two portables with SD--the 7600G extensively
and the Sony SW-07 to a lesser extent. I also use what may be the
most popular portable without SD--the DX-398 (Sangean 909). My
experience with the 398, augmented by an indoor loop, is that it does
not perform noticeably worse on SW than the others in terms of what SD
is supposed to bring to the table. However, I am in an area of the
East Coast that has above average reception for many of the European
broadcasters that I listen to. As to whether a newbie would notice
the difference with the synch detectors on these portables, I'd at
least say that the effect is likely be to less than you might think it
would be--depending again on the particular challenges of your
location. I've never used the SD on the Sony 2010, which is highly
praised and may be a different story.