[IRCA] IBOC again...

["Dave Gasque" <dagasque@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry to be rare guys.  Not much time to listen or participate with the 
honey-do list I was handed a few days ago.  Let me tell you, painting in 
100+ degree heat- not fun.

Anyway, heard up that the sound quality on IBOC is based on a codec with a 
sample rate of 32kbps.  Is this true?  That's a little better than 
telephone-quality sound, IIRC.  Midrange emphasis at mono with this sample 
rate...how do you get a STEREO signal with the information now split to 
STEREO.  Has someone changed the laws of physics lately?  I musta missed 
that.

Also, a company named iBiquity seems to be the sole maker of IBOC equipment- 
that the government has pretty much given them a monopoly- it's their way or 
no way, so the story went.

Sad that the FCC is allowing companies such power over the airwaves with 
little input from radio people who have been in the job (and hobby) for 
lifetimes.

Money talks, entertainment walks.

--
dgasque


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