Sangean HDT-1 HD Radio Component Tuner
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend The latest technological innovation is HD-Radio for AM/FM sound that is above and beyond anything you've heard. HD uses a digital signal instead of analog and more stations are using it. It provides static free, crystal clear sound, allows simultaneous multi-casts from a single station, and data services giving you audio on demand, traffic and news updates and more! Did you spend hundreds of dollars on your stereo system and… Product details and pricing info |
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64 Customer Reviews Posted
- Great receiver
- This product arrived with everything I needed to get started right away. It is easy to setup and the build quality as well as the sound quality is great. We live in the NY metropolitan area, so there are quite a few good HD stations. I would recommend this product to anyone looking for beautifully sounding, static free FM...
- 2007-11-26, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Cost-Effective, Excellent Performance
- Other user reviews on this Website and other sites gave me good reasons to choose this tuner. The few complaints that were cited about its user interface were unimportant to me. I wanted to add HD capability to my aging but excellent discrete component stereo system and didn't want to spend a fortune doing it. My old Yamaha T-80 tuner, which I had owned for about 20 years, finally quit working. The selling price for this tuner with HD is less than what I paid for my Yamaha analog tuner some two decades ago.
The first thing I noticed, upon connecting this tuner to my stereo system and firing it up, is that it is considerably quieter, more sensitive and selective than my previous tuner. The analog signals sounded much better than expected. I live about halfway between New York and Philadelphia. With an outdoor directional antenna with a rotor, there were more than 100 stations available, so selectivity is as important to me as sensitivity. I am pleased with both. This tuner can pluck clear signals from a crowded FM band.
Initially I couldn't get the HD to work with my favorite nearby classical music FM station. Ultimately I found that re-orienting the simple indoor dipole antenna that came with the tuner, while monitoring the tuner's signal strength indicator, improved reception. (I later replaced the dipole antenna included with this tuner with an outdoor Winegard HD-6000 FM Stereo Antenna with a rotor and enjoyed a dramatic improvement.) Once I had a solid, steady signal, the HD began working perfectly and I was delighted. There is a sweetness, clarity and quiet background in my local HD signal, especially when listening to solo instruments, that I've never matched with analog FM from the same station or with other analog stations. The quality that I receive from this tuner's HD is very near what I get from playing a CD, which exceeded my expectations.
This tuner is obviously sophisticated, but it's so simple to use that its palm-sized owner's manual needs only 18 pages. The remote control that comes with this tuner is the same size and about four times as thick as a credit card, so it could be easy to lose, but it works just fine up to at least 15 feet away. Providing a remarkable amount of information about the stations being received, there is a bright blue digital display screen on the front. The screen also brightly displays the time when the tuner is turned off.
If you don't have strong steady FM signals nearby, you will probably need a good directional antenna to enjoy all of the benefits of HD which is a much weaker signal than the analog portion of the same station. Installing a directional Yagi antenna with rotor gave me HD on all New York City and Philadelphia radio stations and has opened up channels and music sources that were previously unavailable.
Some reviewers have picked apart this tuner's user interface. Since I tend to set my tuner on a favorite station and leave it there for hours, I am satisfied with the way it works and I keep remembering how inexpensive this tuner is compared with others that don't sound as good or have HD. In my opinion, this tuner performs exceedingly well and represents an amazing value. - 2007-11-14, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- An Excellent Hd Tuner Best Purchased On Sale At 149.99 or Less.
- An excellent tuner for picking up Hd channels..The fm quality is very good with excellent selectivity and sensitivity.I picked up 40+fm Stations and 10 hd channels.I payed 129.99 +tax at a local nyc retailer.This unit would fly of the shelves if the unit sold for a lower price point.A best buy when purchased at 149.99 or less Thank You.
- 2007-11-02, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Great Reception
- I recently purchased the Sangean HD tuner because of a change in the analogue signal that left us without classical music. The Classical music was available in HD from the same frequency that had previously carried the analogue classical signal. I find the reception to be a great improvement over the analogue signal and the Sangean tuner is easy to use, providing excellent reception as if we were playing a CD.
- 2007-10-30, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Excellent value!
- I was so pleased with this tuner that I purchased a second one for my son's birthday present.
- 2007-10-27, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
