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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Sangean America, Inc.
EAN: 0029288029190
Item Dimensions: 28016808081000
Label: Sangean America, Inc.
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Sangean America, Inc.
Model: HDT-1X
MPN: HDT-1X
Publisher: Sangean America, Inc.
Studio: Sangean America, Inc.
Features:- AM/FM HD Radio tuner with multi-casting reception. HD seek up/down
- 40 station presets (20 FM, 20 AM). Remote - credit card size
- signal strength meter. Clock - display illuminated wth power off
- force analog mode. Backlit LCD display
- split audio mode lets you listen to HD Radio on the left channel and analog radio on the right channel for comparison. Optical Digital Audio Output
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The customers asked, and like always Sangean delivers. Based on the popular HDT-1, Sangean has responded to the many customers requests for digital outputs, analog mode, and other advanced features that make the HDT-1X the deluxe version. Don't think of the HDT-1X as a second generation as much as it is simply a deluxe model.
Average Rating: 
Rating: -
The tuner works fine once I hooked it up to a good antenna. I'm using an old TV antenna on my roof which works great. I tried the antenna included with the tuner but wasn't able to pull in many stations. My main complaints are, once you set the clock it disapears. I'm not sure if this is suppose to happen but it does. Also when the tuner is off, a bright red light is on. I covered it with a piece of electrical tape. I would recomend this product if you're trying to tune in HD stations.
Rating:  -
After I received the HD tuner and installed into my system the Radio would stop working after 20 minutes and then it would not turn on.
I did return the unit for a refund and will now shop locally for a replacement.
Amazon says it will take up to 4 weeks for an exchange unit. I now think it is better to shop a local store were you can take a unit back and receive an exchange on the same day,
Robert
Rating:  -
I wanted to update to HD radio, since my favorite stations were pitching it as well as compare it to my analog tuner. My home theater/hi fi system is composed of separates (pre-amp processor, amp, DAC, etc.) vs. a Receiver. This is a good tuner to add to such a system. It offers both analog outputs (RCA) and a digital output which you can use to connect to a DAC or directly to your receiver's/pre-amp processor's digital input to help improve and/or modify the sound vs. the internal DAC built in the tuner. Whether you listen to a traditional analog tuner or an HD radio tuner, you're still listening to music that has been digitally ripped. A friend of mine who was the Engineering Director at my favorite Los Angeles classical radio station told me that his station now rips music from CD's or LP's, stores them then uploads it to an earth station in the Northern US, where it is transmitted to a satellite back to a mountaintop in L.A., where it's processed again into analog radio wave or digital (HD) radio wave. And yet, they sound excellent. This is how most stations transmit radio today, even my favorite Jazz station. So for someone to make the claim that by listening to an analog tuner, you're getting that "old-fashioned" analog sound isn't quite accurate. Another point to consider is that many radio stations use compression, to keep the volume steady (lower the high volume and raise the lower volume). This drives me nuts when I hear music playing softly, crescendo to a loud volume, only to have the dynamic impact reduced by the compression. Same in reverse when you hear loud music, then the soft part comes on loud. The Sangean unit helps to either reduce this effect or eliminate it since compression takes place in the ripping process. The Sangean HDT-1X outputs both analog and HD, so you can compare them side-by-side.
A site that reviewed the Sangean with substantially more expensive audiophile tuners is (I have to spell it because of the no U R L rules) positive-feedback dot com. Go to positive feedback online archive and look up Issue 30. It's toward the bottom of the Hardware reviews section under Sangean HDT-1 High-Definition Radio Component Tuner. You will be quite surprised at how the Sangean performed in the review.
Things I like about this tuner.
1. It's inexpensive.
2. You get "extra" radio stations in the sub-bands of each station's frequency; e.g. my old classical station who changed formats' broadcasts in HD. There are usually 1 to 3 extra stations in each sub frequency.
3. Sound in the HD is good (based on the stations I listen to); full bodied, quiet background, very dynamic, musical sounding, better than listening to mp3's or ACC's at 256k. Things like cymbals, triangles, and high pitched instruments, a killer for digital to reproduce without digital harshness, are rendered quite well. Voices sound reasonable and full-bodied. Soundstage is convincing, both deep and wider than typical compressed formats (mp3's, AAC's, etc.).
Rating: -
Chose this over the Sony based on other reviews suggesting the Sony ran hot. Not a lot to say about it since it generally does what it's supposed to do.
Reception is as good or better than my receiver so I made it the default tuner for all stations I listen to. Like other reviewers, I bought this specifically for the HD broadcast of our local Public Station, which has more and better programming than their analog-only broadcast. And for that, it works fine. The sound quality doesn't strike me as being any better or worse than analog.
I'd give it 5 stars but for two issues:
1. Price is a bit high
2. The station presets for the digital broadcasts don't stick. In other words, if preset 1 is for KCBX-1 (digital version of their analog broadcast) and preset 2 is for KCBX-2 (digital only broadcast, with separate programming). The tuner eventually loses the KCBX-2 preset and selecting either 1 or 2 will just tune to KCBX-1.
For some reason, there's a slight delay (it says it's "linking") when it tries to tune KCBX-2 but not KCBX-1, even though both are broadcast in digital (one signal stronger?). This only happens after having been tuned to some other analog-only station. This "linking" delay might be the root of the preset loss but I haven't played with it enough to determine. This is a modest annoyance but, for the cost of the tuner, I'd expect better.
And for energy efficiency geeks obsessed by vampire loads, the Sangean uses about 2 watts when in standby.
Rating: -
I admire tuners that are just that - tuners - and nothing else. You won't even get a volume button with this unit. But you will get a good tuner, somewhat better than Pioneer's super tuner even. I live a long way from transmitters (65 miles) but have very low multi-path interference so in general our reception is great. That said HD radio somewhat like HD TV takes a little more boost in terms of dBu signal strength. So even when you're getting a full analog stereo signal that may not translate to digital HD. Here's an example: Compare with KQED that broadcasts 110KW and easily transmits HD to me, the station KALW SF. It's a favorite public radio station and broadcasts a very small 1.9KW. I get KALW at 17 out of 18 on the signal meter but not HD. This warrants more discussion where I have posted this topic because I have seen HD all the way down to 14 on the signal meter. So clearly the signal meter is analog and not accurate for digital.
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Just note that RDS is used with analog broadcasts.
All in all the radio is very nice and efficient so I can't complain. When connected directly with a digital optical cord to a set of speakers there's plenty of volume to spare.
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