Re Steve Ponder's post about the Radio Insight article (http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/84743/is-there-hope-for-a-digital-am-band/)... Has anybody listened to the audio clip of the test? The WBT signal goes to digital near the end of the clip, starting with the CBS top-of-hour "bong" and into the newscast. Yes, the sudden drop to near-zero noise is impressive... but the actual SOUND quality is gawd-awful, like an especially bad webstream. Sure, it's got more "high end" than the analog signal--but it's gargly, hashy, artifact-ridden, and nearly unlistenable. The analog, while bandwidth-limited, is MUCH more pleasant to listen to! "FM-quality" my foot (and various other extremities)!
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