Still amazed at WSRO's Digital quality!

[billohno@gmail.com]

I have wondered about this for awhile but never got around to asking here— I have visited my sister in Sydney, NSW many times and have noticed that it’s pretty much all digital there now. 

Is that the same system as WSRO? And is it mandatory Down Under now? Also, I listen online to 2GB (873 kHz Sydney), radio flagship of the 9News Network. Does the 9 kHz spacing impact on the digital system versus 10 here in the states?

Bill O’Neill

> On May 7, 2022, at 9:37 AM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> wrote:
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> Hybrid mode spews garbage over 30 KHz of the dial. It's also harder to pull off, requiring a lot more bandpass flattening than all-digital. And it doesn't sound as good; the stations I've heard running hybrid have all sounded "watery", like a 24 kbps MP3 stream.
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> A few years ago, my car was in the shop and they offered me a rental for the day. I punched up WBZ for "traffic on the 3s" and immediately realized the car had HD Radio from the "watery" audio I heard.
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> Now, on WSRO everything is linear up to the importer/exporter; there's no STL, as the studio and transmitter are co-located, and the only network content is from WCN, which I set up, so there's no additional lossy compression being introduced. That helps.
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> Rob
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>> On Fri, 6 May 2022, Ron wrote:
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>> Since this list seems to be active again...I wanted to say I am STILL amazed at the audio quality that WSRO has shown to be possible on their All-Digital 650AM.
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>> Would love to see some other stations do digital tests....and maybe the return of a few hybrid signals!
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