At 12:04 PM 4/12/2007, Roger Kolakowski wrote:
And the winning answer was....?
That one's got me curious too. I'm particularly fussy about DSP noise reduction, and there are very few that I actually like. The one I use is made by Michels Engineering in Germany, which provides an excellent degree of noise reduction and doesn't distort the audio as severely as many others. For me, that distortion interferes with my ability to pull a signal out of the mud, and most of the DSP noise reductions work best for me in the "off" position, as far as readability goes. The Michaels one, OTOH, has no impact on readability at worst, and often a modest improvement, as well as excellent noise reduction. On very weak FM signals (ideal for SO-50 :) ), the readability is dramatically improved, and the DSP can almost act as an FM voice activated mute.
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