I believe I was the first to post here on Audiogon about so-called HD RADIO. The first responses were that I was joking.
Then, someone posted a link to the folks who had gotten FCC clearance to develop the standards for this new product. This person, as I recall, worked for the company.
I then watched as the first receivers, Pioneer I believe, for automobiles came into the market. I even traced down an outlet that had a demonstration of the two(!) radio stations then broadcasting in 'HD' in my major metropolitan area.
The first in-home receivers came from DAYSEGUERRA, which was really a high-end studio monitor built for the stations broadcasting in HD. Since then a few others, like Audio Design Associates (www.ada-usa.com) entered the high-end market and now I believe Cambridge Soundworks has a product.
As close as I have followed this, I have opted to go digital, but not OTA(off the air). As I have recently posted elsewhere I had the opportunity to visit slimdevices and I purchased the TRANSPORTER which they featured at an open house. The Transporter was back-ordered so they gave me a squeezebox to tide me over.
The Transporter has a high-end DAC made for internet streaming audio and it interfaces real well with my Apple Computer. Almost my entire most often played library of CDs is now on my computer and this device is all I could have hoped for. As I live on the West Coast I can tune into late-night East Coast stations to pick-up their late night feeds that are pretty much chatter and commercial-free.
I do believe that internet radio will out compete the so-called HD Radio, at lest in the home environment which is why even the manufacturers have invested so much into automobile units.
Then, someone posted a link to the folks who had gotten FCC clearance to develop the standards for this new product. This person, as I recall, worked for the company.
I then watched as the first receivers, Pioneer I believe, for automobiles came into the market. I even traced down an outlet that had a demonstration of the two(!) radio stations then broadcasting in 'HD' in my major metropolitan area.
The first in-home receivers came from DAYSEGUERRA, which was really a high-end studio monitor built for the stations broadcasting in HD. Since then a few others, like Audio Design Associates (www.ada-usa.com) entered the high-end market and now I believe Cambridge Soundworks has a product.
As close as I have followed this, I have opted to go digital, but not OTA(off the air). As I have recently posted elsewhere I had the opportunity to visit slimdevices and I purchased the TRANSPORTER which they featured at an open house. The Transporter was back-ordered so they gave me a squeezebox to tide me over.
The Transporter has a high-end DAC made for internet streaming audio and it interfaces real well with my Apple Computer. Almost my entire most often played library of CDs is now on my computer and this device is all I could have hoped for. As I live on the West Coast I can tune into late-night East Coast stations to pick-up their late night feeds that are pretty much chatter and commercial-free.
I do believe that internet radio will out compete the so-called HD Radio, at lest in the home environment which is why even the manufacturers have invested so much into automobile units.