You read that headline right — in today’s seemingly omnidigital software-heavy cloud world Inovonics is releasing an old-fashioned rebroadcast receiver just in time for the NAB Show.
Like a cool ocean breeze blowing through the Las Vegas desert.
Okay, maybe not quite.
The heart of the Aaron 656 FM/HD Radio Rebroadcast Receiver is a software-defined radio, no tubes. And it receives HD Radio (and the subchannels). There are two antenna inputs along with AES digital and streaming program inputs as well. In addition there is an onboard band scanner.
It offers up to 4 GB of memory for playback. The old rebroadcast receivers never did anything like that. An RDS/RBDS encoding stage is also included.
Maximum-Ratio Combining technology is used for clearing up signals, according to Inovonics.
Onboard is a five-band processor with a four-band parametric EQ, compressor, high-pass filter, phase rotator, limiter, automatic gain controller, stereo enhancer, etc., the usual tuner tools.
Plus a package of alarms can notify stations of problems.
And, of course, there’s remote control via the web.
Inovonics will be in Booth C2846.
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