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| Sony XDRF1HD HD Radio Tuner | 
 enlarge | Brand: Sony
Category: CE
List Price: $99.95
Buy New: $80.01
You Save: $19.94 (20%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 314
Color: BLACK
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 7.1 x 2.4
MPN: XDRF1HD
Model: XDRF1HD
UPC: 027242730304
EAN: 0027242730304
ASIN: B00168Q248
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Very good tuner but some user interface issues hold it back October 1, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The receiver is a tuner that is very small and intended to plug into your existing stereo system in a living room setting and it does this very well.
Acquiring HD is the fastest I've experienced, not the 8 seconds it should be, but close enough.
There is a really handy arrow that tells you if there are more subchannels and if you should tune 'up' or 'down' to hear them. This is really handy since it takes a while to tune HD signals, even on the best tuners.
Sound is excellent. You hear the talk radio host sip his coffee.
Remote is handy and not as useless as others think.
Presets can be set to HD subchannels. This is a major, crucial feature, and I'm very happy with it.
On AM Radio, even if the analog signal has static and interference, the HD Radio signal still comes on with crystal-clear audio. This is a huge advantage.
Some issues:
The unit runs extremely hot when tuning HD, hot when running, and very warm when off.
The back light cannot be turned off and remains lit when the power is turned off--this is a major flaw.
No optical output is a major omission for something that is just a tuner.
You cannot input a frequency. You must tune up or down one step or use presets.
The radio does remember its presets when AC power is removed, so I'm not seeing what other reviewers said.
The tuning buttons are to the left of the preset buttons meaning that I accidentally hit the preset when I want to "tune up" or "tune down".
Tuning off an HD channel is easy to do accidentally and tuning back takes a while for the HD to come back.
The tuner machine picks up alot of its own digital hash on AM.
Nighttime AM HD is currently banned by the industry due to adjacent channel interference so your AM radio will go to analog when local sunset occurs.
One word about talk radio: Even though HD Radio has been around for a few years most broadcasting equipment in my area is not upgraded well enough to provide clean broadcasting, especially on AM talk radio stations whose old analog signal covered up a world of audio hurt that you can now hear in HD. Talk radio is hard to listen to unless it's a national show that is well produced and processed. You'll hear background sound, hiss, hum, and feedback which would otherwise be masked by traditional AM broadcasting.
Best Buy September 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It has excellent recetion on analog and HD FM. The adjacent channel electivity enables me to hear weak stations next to strong local ones. Good FM sound, analog or HD.
Four faults: Analog AM is telephone quality. No "stay in analog" button. Frequency settings aren't backed up by a battery. RDS display doesn't capture all the text info, i.e. the "now playing" scrolling text.
It's only [...], so these faults are excusable.
 Great Little Tuner September 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The tuner displays a clock when turned off. When turned on it will scan for Analogue stations and/or Hibred Digital stations. A second click stop scanning and hold the station being sampled. Of course, if you already know the station number you may key it in with the remote control.
The fact is, even the Analogue stations sound better with this tuner than the tuner built into my Sony receiver. The difference is striking, but not as striking as the HD stations. Frankly, I am bowed over. I love this little tuner. Playing radio through my Pioneer speakers never sounded so great.
I connected the tuner to my receiver through the recorder jacks. Can you guess what I can do now?
Highly Recommended September 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Intuitive to use. With an external antenna this unit gets amazing reception. I know of no tuner that's more selective or more sensitive. HD Radio in southern new england offers a lot of alternative programming. I notice those stations that have a third side channel suffer in sound quality. That's a fault of the technology, not this radio. I've noticed that on the car radio too. I wish the display screen could turn off when the power is off. It's too bright and is a needless waste of power. Unit looses station memories if unplugged more than 12 hours. Overall highly recommended. Note there's a $50.00 coupon until 9/30/09. That's an amazing bargain.
HD Radio Will Spoil You September 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had an HD Radio in my car for about 2 years. We are lucky to have several HD stations in the area and I've always enjoyed the better quality of sound. Now that I have this new Sony tuner, I can get the same quality at home, and it is fantastic. HD should become standard equipment in car receivers and home receivers.
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