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
- Sangean HDT-1 HD Radio Component Tuner
- Since I'm not knowledgable in the area of electronics, I found the Sangean HDT-1 HD Radio Component Tuner impossible to use with my existing stereo. I even bought an antenna and a home theater system, in an attempt to get HD radio. So far all attempts to install the products have failed. I expect that a more qualified person could use this component and would know what to use to make it perform as it should. I, however, intend to get an all inclusive HD radio when I find one.
- 2007-07-07, 0 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Reads Between the Lines
- The Sangean HDT-1 does a good job picking up the few HD stations there are around. I was kind of disappointed with the number HD stations I could tune in to. I live about 20 miles out of Charlotte, NC and I get about 4 HD stations. One is classic rock, one is all comedy cuts, another is classic country and the other is "lite" music. The ones I've listened to were commercial free though. I know HD radio is fairly new so I think it is a good investment as more stations come around. Excellent product for an excellent price!
- 2007-06-28, 0 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- sensitivity
- With an FM antenna at 35 feet, we were able to pull in a strong HD signal from 50 miles away.
- 2007-06-11, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- First Comsumer HD Tuner Works Well But Not Outstanding in Sound
- I have been searching for HD FM tuners and found this one. I read numerous reviews, including an expert that compared this one with $5000 high-end Magnum Dynalabs tuner. I kind of set my expectation too high. Upon connecting, I did not hear immediate wider stereo separation, extented frequency response or so on. The reason is that I am currently using the Adcom GFP-500's tuner, which is outstanding in clarity and mid-range reproduction. I am a classical music listener. The 102.1 HD station from SF gives my Adcom exceptional good quality classical music programs (although the Adcom only receives analog sound.) When I connected this HD tuner to my Adcom pre-amp, I found this tuner to sound cleaner than all analog FM tuners, including my Adcom GFT-500. Also I kind of feel crispy sounding from 102.1-2 (HD2). But cleaner and crispy do not measure up to high-quality sounds. The instrumental classic music sounds thinner, less attack power, dryer, less stereo sometimes compare to Adcom's tuner. And the worst thing is that, the violin sounds trembling sometimes, especially for long and continuous notes. The trembling of the string or windwood sounds reminded me dirty tape deck head. This trembling effect does not appear in all music but does appear often. This may suggest that the trembling is due to the broadcasting's fault. The texture of the sound body does not feel smooth. Before I was about to blame Sangean's d to a converter quality, I learned that HD FM uses 96kps - 128kps rate for music transporting. This is a mid setting for MP3 standard. I can easily hear the difference between original CD and 256kps MP3 re-production with Creatives Sound card on my Laptop with a pair of good headphone. The fact is that I can more easily distinguish MP3 and CD on classical music and can only barely tell their difference on hard rocks. I guess that's why sangean's HD FM tuner cannot produce the music as well as the Adcom's analog FM tuner especially for classical music. Since Sangean cannot force analog reception on HD stations, I cannot compare Sangean's analog reception with Adcom's. The rating for Sangean should be a 4.5 stars and the 0.5 stars loss is due to the HD format itself. This is not quite fair to Sangean.
I decide to keep this one for the following reasons: 1. It gives me 102.1-2 station, which sounds clean and crispy but not as musical and full-bodied as the Adcom's analog on 102.1-1. This doubles my classical stations in SF area (another 91.7 is not fully classical.)
2. It displays the song (or symphony) info, the station name, the clock and even frequency response bars! I can always use two tuners and only listen to the Adcom's FM.
3. When the 102.1 station becomes too noisy, I can listen to this HD one with almost no noise but also almost monaural. I found this is especially useful for piano music at lower volume. When the Adcom gives me piano solo with extreme dynamic noise(The noise only appears when the piano plays, during the pause, you hear no noise.)If the noise is not that severe, I would still select the Adcom's non-HD signals.
4. I can show my friends that this is the first HD-FM tuner, which does have excellent selectivity and sensitivity. And the sound quality would be at least on the better side of the build-in tuners in receivers.
Over all, I would rate this one very good. It sounds reasonably well if you don't compare it to better FM tuners. When you listen to non-classicals, it gets closer to better analog FM tuners in sound quality. So, if you can't wait to hear the HD FM, buy this one now. This can match your Pioneer, Yamaha gear from Best-buy very well. But if you have a set of NAD, Adcom, Rotel or Classe, I guarantee you will be disappointed on the sound. Again, blame the format. Besides the sound, you do get a lot of benefits of digital radio. If you CAN wait, wait for HD tuners made by Rotel, Adcom, Denon, or maybe Magnum Dynalab. I know that Denon has their top-of-line stereo (not HT) receiver with HD tuner. Rotel has the RT-1084 HD tuner. Although the low-resulotion HD signal would not be made even by Rotel or Magnum Dyalab to nice music as well as the high-end analog FM tuner can make, I bet their analog-converter will be better. Or for this $185-$40rebate price, buy both Sangean and Rotel and do the fun comparison work!
- 2007-06-07, 10 of 12 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Sangean HD Radio Tuner
- Sangean HDT-1 HD Radio Component Tuner
I live and work in Pittsburgh, PA, where radio reception is notoriously bad because of the hilly terrain.
I had heard that HD radio technology eliminated most of the distortion of conventional analog radio reception; I was anxious to see if this claim was true, but very few manufacturer's of HD radio are building units that can be integrated into existing stereo systems -- Sangean was an exception.
I was able to plug the radio tuner into my Denon system's tape monitor jacks with the RCA cables that come with the Sangean tuner, plug it into my power strip -- and it was ready to go.
The sound is at or near CD quality and virtually without distortion. I use a pair of standard "rabbit ears," which I had used for years on my Denon receiver with 75 ohm coax -- I just disconnected the "rabbit ears" from the Denon receiver and connected them to the Sangean tuner.
The classical music from our local classical PBS affiliate (WQED) which broadcasts FM in HD sounds really great. Sangean has engineered technology that lives up to its claims and is ready to go with your existing stereo components. - 2007-06-01, 5 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
