The HD radio stations sound quite a lot better than their analog counterparts. The signal is cleaner, without any background noise interfering. The HD100 is also a pretty decent analog radio as well, and pulled in a couple of FM stations I couldn’t get in with my other office radio. While the HD stations sounded good, they didn’t sound quite as good as through other HD radios—namely the Cambridge Soundworks 820HD I reviewed earlier this year, but that radio carries a list price $200 more than the Radiosophy.
At a time when you can get a Sony alarm clock radio for $20 at Target, $100 for the HD100 doesn’t sound cheap—but any other HD Radio will set you back considerably more. As of this fall, about 1,200 stations are broadcasting digitally, and many of them are sending out multicast signals, so the only way you can pick up that extra content is to buy an HD radio, and this unit is the easiest way to achieve that. yy
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"Review: Radi-osophy HD100 ? HD Sounds, But At What Cost?"
"Remember those crappy $15 AM/FM/cassette radios from the 80s? The HD100 looks just like one and has the sound to match."
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/08/review-radi-oso.html
And, who buys radios anymore, except for radio-geeks?