For instance, New York's WPLJ offers adult contemporary music on its main station (analog and digital), but has two multicast stations-95.5-2 and 95.5-3-that play '70s and '80s music only, respectively.
They're substations that offer alternative programming that's unavailable on the analog dial. But the multicast (or HD2) stations are a different story. The relative advantages and disadvantages of the Sony versus those competing models will be covered in the full review later this week, but the bigger question I keep running into when reviewing these products is this: is the HD Radio format good enough to justify the purchase of a dedicated radio?įor me, the supposed increase in sound quality just isn't that much of a selling point-you're just hearing those same lame Clear Channel playlists, albeit on a digital rather than an analog band. (While the Radiosophy HD100 is available for a scant $99, the photos alone don't exactly inspire confidence). That edges out the earlier Sangean HDR-1 ($250), as well as the Boston Acoustics Recepter HD and Cambridge SoundWorks 820HD (both $300). The big advantage of the Sony is that it's the first name-brand tabletop HD Radio that's available for under $200. I'm not quite done with it yet-I'm still evaluating the sound quality and reception versus the Polk Audio i-Sonic-but it appears to be a perfectly capable HD Radio. Sony just sent me the XDR-S3HD tabletop HD Radio to review.
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