Re: [IRCA] Tecsun PL-300WT DSP-enhanced Ultralight Radio--Amazing Performance

[satya@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hey Russ:

Yeah, I could see how that could go either way.  If DSP is too restrictive
in bandwidth and sounds muffled, then go with traditional filtering in the
Americas.  However, the pro for offering a DSP receiver on this side of
the pond would be that having DSP filtering would allow the casual
listener, in regular old AM mode, to avoid picking up the digital
sidebands of the station they are listening to.  I have heard that cheap
receivers with barn-door wide filtering pick up those sidebands, meaning
that the already-poor analog audio of an IBOC station is even worse now
that they pick up the dreaded hiss of their own IBOC signal!  Now they
know how stations (and DXers) on adjacent channels feel...

My gut tells me that the G8 borrowed the unique 24 time zone clock feature
of the PL-300WT, but still has the receiver section of much lesser models.
 I could see how Tecsun could lift the clock feature and put it in
virtually any other design.

Kevin




>>
>>
>>
>> Given the performance of the
>> PL-300WT, why they would dumb it down to the G8 is anyone's
>> guess.
>> Perhaps Grundig believes that such a radio should be a
>> little bigger, and
>> that North American consumers don't need, aren't savvy
>> about, and/or don't
>> want the restricted bandwidth of, DSP?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Here's one guess - Most of the rest of the world isn't using IBOC to
> achieve digital AM. The US is. To the extent that Grundig's sales of
> portables is skewed to the US, that could be the answer to your question.
>
>
>
> Russ Edmunds
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