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A friend let me borrow his Sony XDR-S3HD radio before he sells it on
eBay to try and recoup some of his money. Trying it out I kept wondering – what’s so compelling about this? I could detect virtually no difference in audio quality between FM analog and FM “HD”. The only way I new it had switched to HD was the “HD” symbol quit blinking and a little text appeared telling me what song was playing. WOW, how cool is this. What was even more irritating was that the analog and digital signals were out of sync by about 5 seconds. So much for a smooth transition. No CD Quality here boys. AM “HD” was even more goofy. When it did lock, which wasn’t often, the audio level changed – very irritating. AM “HD” isn’t FM quality as iBiquity likes to tout. It warbles, distorts and generally sounds bad – something like talking under water. The only positive was the reduction of background noise in AM “HD” mode. The real shocker was how power hungry the radio must be – and this is just a tabletop clock radio – nothing fancy. It comes with a MASSIVE external power transformer “brick” that you could use as an anchor for a boat. But it doesn’t end there. The radio has a COOLING FAN mounted in the bottom. Yes, that’s right a COOLING FAN in a clock radio – with all kinds of warnings in the instruction book about keeping the radio adequately ventilated. Man, am I glad I didn’t buy this thing. |
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