fmalloy
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Ok after this post I am going to shut up about this until my 436HP arrives next Tuesday, but I've watched numerous YouTube videos of 436HP P25 audio recordings and they are absolutely awful! They all sound robotic and underwater, and the people talking sound like they shoved a huge wad of cotton in their mouths. Any interference causes choppy dropouts, whereas analog you got some hiss or static, but it was intelligible. On most of these recordings I can't even understand what the dispatchers/units are saying!
It sounds like computer text-to-speech from the 1990s. Stephen Hawking's speech synthesizer comes to mind.
Now, MP3 and other digital audio clearly sounds fantastic with the right compression level and sampling, so it's possible to have clear audio.
Sorry for venting, but P25 digital absolutely sucks. I don't know if it's the standard, the level of digital data compression, or what but it's awful. Not sure if it's Uniden decoding or signal processing or the standard, but if I was a LO I'd be pissed. Intelligible, clear audio dialog can mean the difference between life and death.
It sounds like computer text-to-speech from the 1990s. Stephen Hawking's speech synthesizer comes to mind.
Now, MP3 and other digital audio clearly sounds fantastic with the right compression level and sampling, so it's possible to have clear audio.
Sorry for venting, but P25 digital absolutely sucks. I don't know if it's the standard, the level of digital data compression, or what but it's awful. Not sure if it's Uniden decoding or signal processing or the standard, but if I was a LO I'd be pissed. Intelligible, clear audio dialog can mean the difference between life and death.