{"id":9005,"date":"2016-04-19T20:34:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T00:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=9005"},"modified":"2023-03-19T14:13:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T18:13:36","slug":"came-as-a-stock-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/came-as-a-stock-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Came as a stock item"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I wore out another car and it was time to get a new one. Unexpectedly, the new car came with one of these fancy gizmos:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9013\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HD_stock_radio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HD_stock_radio-650x488.jpg\" alt=\"HD Radio as a stock item\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HD_stock_radio-650x488.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HD_stock_radio-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HD_stock_radio-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HD_stock_radio-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HD_stock_radio-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/HD_stock_radio.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HD Radio as a stock item<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is not the first HD radio I have owned, the Jeep Cherokee had one that I install myself. This is the first time it came with the car and I didn&#8217;t even mention it to the sales guy.<\/p>\n<p>A few observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many stations&#8217; HD1 channels don&#8217;t sound very good, they are either shrill and tinny, or not synced with their analog counterpart.<\/li>\n<li>There still aren&#8217;t very many stations transmitting HD Radio; FM stations are either NPR affiliates or belong to a few larger corporate owners.\u00a0 The AM stations are few and far between.<\/li>\n<li>AM HD Radio still has numerous problems in the mobile listening environment.<\/li>\n<li>Many of the HD 2\/3 don&#8217;t sound very good; low audio levels, muffled modulation, low bit rate audio, etc.\u00a0 The only exception that I have found so far is Vermont Public Radio&#8217;s classical format, transmitted on the HD2 of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WVPS\">WVPS<\/a>, Burlington.<\/li>\n<li>HD2\/3 channels mainly serve as &#8220;translator loophole&#8221; stations, AKA &#8220;Metro Stations&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As far as the new ownership by DTS goes; I will reserve judgment until they do something with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I wore out another car and it was time to get a new one. Unexpectedly, the new car came with one of these fancy gizmos: This is not the first HD radio I have owned, the Jeep Cherokee had one that I install myself. This is the first time it came with the car &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/came-as-a-stock-item\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Came as a stock item<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11132,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005\/revisions\/11132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}