HD table radio

[Jim Hall]

I have two of the Sony radios and they are quite nice. It's very hard to
find a table radio these days that isn't plastic with 1 inch speakers. The
Sony comes in an attractive wooden cabinet and sounds quite nice. 

The only rather odd (to me) limitation is it contains no ferrite rod antenna
for AM. They provide an external AM wire loop antenna that you can clip onto
the radio, but why they didn't put the antenna inside the radio is beyond
me. They also provide a folded dipole FM antenna which I mounted at ceiling
level pinned to the wall facing Boston. 

I get all the FM HD signals reliably from Boston at 30 miles out, plus those
from Worcester and Manchester NH. On AM, I only get WBZ in HD semi-reliably.
WNNW is closer and I get HD in the daytime from them, but not at night (even
though I could see the tower if I had a window in that direction). Stations
like WMKI and WXKS don't register in HD either day or night.

Speaking tangentially of WMKI: is it me or do they have the worst sounding
audio? I guess it doesn't matter that much given the audience, but it sounds
like the whole thing is coming from a phone booth.

-----Original Message-----
From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
[mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
Scott Fybush
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 6:01 PM
To: Bill O'Neill
Cc: Boston Radio Interest
Subject: Re: HD table radio

Bill O'Neill wrote:
> Just looking around for a decent, low priced HD radio for the folks' 
> kitchen counter. How about the Radiosophy HD100 that VPR has on their 
> recommended list at 99?
> Bill O'Neill

Adequate - but I'd spring for the much, much better Sony XDR-S3HD for not
much more $$.

s

-----Original Message-----
From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
[mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
Scott Fybush
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 6:01 PM
To: Bill O'Neill
Cc: Boston Radio Interest
Subject: Re: HD table radio

Bill O'Neill wrote:
> Just looking around for a decent, low priced HD radio for the folks' 
> kitchen counter. How about the Radiosophy HD100 that VPR has on their 
> recommended list at 99?
> Bill O'Neill

Adequate - but I'd spring for the much, much better Sony XDR-S3HD for 
not much more $$.

s