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Product Evaluations
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Contributing engineers and writers try out new products for review. These are paid evaluations, and writers provide thumbs up/thumbs down commentary.
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Visteon HD Jump Goes on the Road
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Tom Ray Tries Out the Unit Marketed as the 'Premier Transportable HD Radio Receiver'
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by Thomas R. Ray III, 8.01.2007
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I have in my possession a Visteon HD Jump radio. My review in the car is based on comparison with my benchmark, a Kenwood KTC-HR100TR. My table benchmark is a Directed Electronics Table Top HD Radio.
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Silver Touts Remote Control, LED Display
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Audio Processor Is By Audemat-Aztec
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by Rich Rarey, 8.01.2007
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"Ooooh … it's blue," said a colleague when I mounted the Audemat-Aztec 6B audio processor in the rack.
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DMHD-1000 Is an ‘Add-On’ Tuner
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Directed Electronics Drives Into the Car HD Radio Market
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by Aaron Read, 6.06.2007
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The recent “broadcaster’s buy” from Ibiquity Digital included a new offering to the HD Radio tuner market: the Directed Electronics DMHD-1000 “car connect” radio.
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StationPlaylist Marries Studio, Creator
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by Bill DeFelice, 6.06.2007
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With operating budgets limited and leaving little margin for error, the common goal for us is to get the biggest bang for the buck when purchasing equipment.
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IDC System Deploys at Westwood One
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Radio Network Makes Choice of a New-Generation Satellite Receiver
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by Conrad Trautmann, 5.09.2007
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The advertisers in our sports products — NFL, NCAA, NHL, golf — wanted the ability to regionalize their commercials by geographical area.
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Latest HD-R Tabletop Is From Directed
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$250 Unit Boasts Two Detachable Speakers, Alarm Clock Among Its Features
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by Aaron Read, 4.11.2007
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One big missing component of the HD Radio tuner rollout has been the HD equivalent of ubiquitous alarm clock radios.
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Powerful Processing in One Rack Space
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Vorsis HD P3 Provides Clean Sound From Any Networked PC
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by Rich Rarey, 4.11.2007
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Once in a while a piece of broadcast equipment is so complex, so powerful, that to expose its entire control surface, one would have to have a whole rack of knobs, buttons and indicators.
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Accurian Tabletop Gets High Marks
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Entry-Level Digital Tuner From RadioShack Provides Multicast and PAD Signals
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by Ed Hollis, 3.14.2007
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I bought the RadioShack Accurian Tabletop HD Radio for $99 at its introduction sale in November 2006 using a $25 off coupon.
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PAW-120: More Than Record/Playback
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AEQ'S PAW-120 Handheld Digital Recorder
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by Gary Eskow, 3.14.2007
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Just a decade or so ago, field recordists were faced with a difficult decision: either shell out for an expensive tape- or digital-based unit, or settle for the chintzy sound and limited feature set that cassette recorders offered.
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Goldeneagle HD: Monitoring, Control Grow Up
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Audemat-Aztec's Unit Monitors Parameters Necessary to HD Radio, E-mails Problems to CE
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by Tom Norman, 3.14.2007
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The Audemat-Aztec Goldeneagle HD is a single-box solution to transmitter monitoring and control, an eclectic combination of HD and analog monitoring and remote control gadgetry.
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A Peek at the Sangean HDT-1
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Company Shows Its First-Generation AM/FM/HD Component Tuner
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by Jim Somich, 2.14.2007
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In case you haven't noticed, HD Radio is here in all its glory, warts and all.
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NoiseFree Plug-In Quiets Broadband Noise
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Algorithmix NoiseFree, ScratchFree Plug-Ins Eliminate Pops, Clicks and Other Impulsive Noise
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by Read G. Burgan, 2.14.2007
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Occasionally during the early 1970s, AT&T would forget to switch our NPR line to the Texaco Metropolitan Opera line on Saturday afternoons.
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WS-Series: A 'Carry-Anywhere' Recorder
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Unit Eases Radio News Operations Via Size, Self-Explanatory Controls, RAM Storage Technology
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by Carl Lindemann, 1.17.2007
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Static RAM digital storage technology quickly is becoming the standard for professional field recording. At the same time, the technology is appearing in consumer devices, albeit without the high-end features and flexibility, and mostly as part of MP3 players.
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Acoustic Wave II Gives Good Bass
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Bose Updates the Compact System With New Digital Signal Processing Technology Applied to Waveguide
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by Frank Beacham, 12.20.2006
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In the modern history of consumer radio receivers, few products have had the sustained commercial success of Bose Corp.’s Acoustic Wave compact audio systems.
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Sony MZ-M200: MiniDisc Is Not Dead
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Pocket-Size Recorder Supports Multiple Formats, Includes EL Display and Is Mac-Compatible
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by Charles Dubé, 11.22.2006
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With MP3 players and Flash recorders as common as Kleenex tissues, why would anyone want to use the seemingly anachronistic MD format anyway?
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Barix Enables Real-Time Audio Over IP
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Instreamer Converts Digital, Analog to MP3 Stream; Exstreamer Pulls Digital, Converts to Analog
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by Mark Greenhouse, 10.25.2006
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This device is an intelligent network-based audio decoder that pulls digital audio (via that Cat-5 cable coming out of the Instreamer) from an IP network and converts it to analog audio — the box usefully proffering familiar stereo RCA female jacks and S/PDIF coax and optical digital connectors onboard the box.
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Magix Offers ‘Surprising’ Audio Software
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Audio Cleaning Lab 11 Fits Audio Import, Cleaning, Organizing Into a $40 Package
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by Ken R., 10.25.2006
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Well, let me apologize at this time to Magix for greatly underestimating its Audio Cleaning Lab 11. While not without its faults, this is an amazing starter product that handles many tasks well.
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Time Tailor Audio Plays Catch-up
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by Mark Greenhouse, 9.13.2006
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Prime Image Inc.'s Time Reduction Unit 'Nibbles Away' at Program Until Desired Length is Achieved
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AirTools 6200 Has Split Personality
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Symetrix Processor Offers 256 Memory Locations, Dual Mono, Stereo Modes
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by Charles Dubé, 8.16.2006
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The AirTools 6200 is a single rack space dual digital voice processor. Considering the popularity of the venerable Symetrix 528E and 422, and evolution into DSP technology inherent in the Symetrix 628, I suspect Symetrix thought hard about where to take its next generation of microphone processor. With a portfolio of great-sounding and affordable equipment, perhaps making one that is even more flexible was the next big step. The AirTools 6200 by Symetrix is designed to meet a myriad of needs.
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M4 Makes Smooth Transition to HD
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by Rich Rarey, 8.02.2006
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DaySequerra's HD Radio Tuner Has Display Presets, LEDs to Take Guesswork Out of Signal Acquisition
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