I found it works OK for me but we don't have lots of stations but I don't use an external antenna with it. I mainly use for wakeup alarm audio stream as using the internet stream of the station was not reliable for a variety of reasons.
I think the RadioShark is of similar quality as a FM radio of about twice the price in Ireland - a HiFi tuner it is not. An external antenna can be used with the RadioShark and you can use a v. long USB cable so that it can be positioned for best reception away from PC and other sources of interference/shielding. SBS takes a PCM stream from the RadioShark and streams it as Flac and at a guess the audio quality is probably about the same as a 128kbit/s MP3 but I cannot be sure as local FM stations all have low speed internet streams. Not sure what you mean by "noisy reception" - is it weak/distant signal or adjacent stations or something else ? I have also tried TV/FM tuner cards which were terrible unless a big external antenna was attached (and even then they had 32Khz PCM stream). and an ADS InstantFM usb adapter (Silabs chipset) which has RDS. The Griffin was most reliable as the software to drive the Silabs based units didn't worked all the time. FM adaptors are now hard to find as digital radio becomes prevalent. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76458 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
