| Alpine TUA-T550HD - HD radio tuner | 
| Brand: Alpine
Category: CE
Buy New: $135.00
as of 8/1/2010 04:28 EDT details
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Seller: AllTechUS
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 25,599
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 4 x 8 x 11
MPN: TUA-T550HD
Model: T550HD
UPC: 793276700346
EAN: 0093276700347
ASIN: B001764LUQ
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | HD Radio delivers FM radio with CD sound quality and AM radio with FM sound quality. | | • | Step up from traditional radio, for a crystal-clear, digital experience. | | • | HD Radio stations are offering a variety of useful messages that scroll across radio display screens |
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Product Description
HD Radio offers multicasting, which means current FM stations provide more than one program stream on their existing frequency. **With creative new programming, you get new extra FM multicasting from HD2 and HD3 multicast channels above and beyond the main station channels, which means more music, news and sports in crystal-clear sound and commercial free. Local FM stations offer a wide variety of new formats on their HD2 channels including reggae, blues, classic jazz, future country, new alternative, deep tracks, bluegrass and local artists. More than 200 HD Radio stations across the United States offer two to three additional channels above and beyond their analog and main digital channels, with many more expected to go on the air this year. Stations are using their HD2 multicast channels to experiment with new music and news formats, showcase young artists and local bands, offer non-English language programming, and more.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 8
 Not worth it July 1, 2010
Paul Mac (Florida)
The radio constantly slips from digital to analog as you drive around, and what happens is it sounds like a cd skipping whenever it makes the switch. I'm not sure if this is a limitation with this alpine product or just a problem with HD radio in general. Its impossible to listen to any of the side stations because it cant keep a lock on the digital channel while your moving. I would pass on this radio. I'm going to be uninstalling it and just using my analog receiver till something changes. It seems like a great thing when your playing with the demo at the store and not moving, but once you start to move it cant keep a lock on the channel.
Tampa FL.
Uselss and waste of money..... June 27, 2010
Carlos A. Casanova (RI, US)
This critique is about the product and NOT Amazon.
I bought this item with the hopes that my radio static would finally disappear. I looked online and was pleasantly surprised to see that the majority of stations in my area were already broadcasting in HD. So, at least according to 'opportunity' to pick up HD stations, I am in good shape.
Sadly however, the unit proved to be useless. The analog stations were 100 times worse than w/o the unit in place and only 1 or 2 stations would lock in on HD. And even those were not guaranteed as soon as I drove around town. I was even in and around downtown Boston, MA the other day and the reception was horrible and inconsistent. When it locks in, it's great BUT....there are so few times it locks in to the HD signal and it is incredibly annoying when it goes in/out of analog/digital.
Bottom line is that I have unplugged the unit and gone back to analog. Hopefully the signal strength will get better in the future and I'll plug it back in.
I would strongly recommend holding off on buying this until lots of people start posting about success with it.
Alpine TUA-HD550 Not Ready For Prime Time June 26, 2010
Warpig
I put a complete Alpine system in my car. From HU through Signal Processor Then over to JL Audio D Class Amp & Speakers. I pulled out all the stops, I got it ALL. CDA-9886 Head Unit. KCE-400BT Blue Tooth, TUA-T550HD HD Receiver, PXA-H100 Imprint Processor, and an AI-Net XM Radio Module with the signals routed into a JL Audio HD900/5 D class amp hooked to 2 sets of JL Audio Separates. 1 set C5-650 (Rear Fill) and one set of ZR-650CSi (Front Doors) The amp's 5th channel drives a pair of JL Audio 12W3 Subs. This review will focus on the TUA-550HD HD Receiver.
I was really looking forward to being capable of receiving HD radio in the car. When I installed everything I was having a VERY rough time getting any music from the HD Radio. With all the AI-Net boxes I have in my AI-Net daisy chain it took me nearly 2 hours of trial and error hooking the equipment all up in different combo's before I got radio source and all my other AI-Net box sources to work. The manual only shows how to hook it up to a AI-Net head unit by itself. No mention of what to do if you are also using an Imprint processor or other AI-Net sources or a combo of the above. So I finally am getting Radio White Noise with everything hooked up. I search for FM stations in the Analog FM band and I get only a few stations to lock in. Hmm the 9886 Head unit FM receiver received a ton more stations than the HD Radio. So I go to my favorite radio station who supposedly has 2 HD sub channels. I'm waiting for some kind of confirmation that I am receiving HD... Nothing... Turns out the reception is so horrible on the receiver that I was not getting a strong enough antenna signal to receive the HD sub channels. I live about 17 Miles from Downtown Chicago and have NEVER in any car I have ever owned had bad reception even when I was 35+ miles from the city. So reception was awful. Now I have to admit my car's antenna is inside my windshield glass and is not a standard whip antenna. Still I had no problems receiving many many stations from the CDA-9886's internal receiver. So I decided to buy an amplified antenna and give it a try. I hook up the amplified antenna and mount it where the instructions say I will have best results. I run the power wire for the amp to the back of the 9886 and hook it up to the power antenna lead on the 9886 so when the radio is on the antenna/amp is also, when the radio is off like while listening to a CD the antenna/amp will also be off. I turn everything on and have no reception at all. Turns out the TUA-T550HD does not cause the 9886's power antenna lead to go hot. So The antenna/amp was off. I pulled the HU and moved the power antenna's power lead over to the amp turn on wire. So now whenever the 9886 is on so is the antenna/amp. So now I have some reception in normal FM. Better than my car's antenna but still not enough signal to receive most HD sub channels. an nowhere NEAR as good as the internal receiver in the 9886 on it's own. So this thing not only cost ~$150 it gives me horrible reception. i cannot even listen to some of my favorite Analog legacy FM stations with this receiver with a better antenna than the 9886's built in receiver. Turns out the only HD sub channel stations I receive are from near by spanish stations. Nothing else. and only half of the normal legacy FM stations I get with the 9886's tuner. This is the First Alpine product I would have to tell people to steer clear of. You may have better luck if you live IN the big city, but this HD Receiver is NOT ready for the Burbs. Save your money unless you live in the City.
 Alpine's HD-Tuner TUA-550HD March 26, 2010
C. Dickhut (Milford, Ma.)
I took a chance purchasing this item for my car stereo. I did read ALL the previous reviews - they were mixed between good & bad. I installed this into my system and hooked it up to my current Alpine HU - IVA-W205, all I can say is WOW!! What a sound improvement!! It was very easy to install and hook up. Once I turned the system on, I was able to see instantly that I was receiving HD signals and my stations multi-cast as well. You get to see station info., song title, and band/singer name. I have had this running for almost a week and have had no issues present themselves. Just wish the install directions were a little more direct, meaning I have Alpine's PXA-H701 processor and it didn't give me a diagram on how to "daisy chain" the Ai-net cabling between my HU, processor, and HD tuner - I had to figure it out myself. All in all, I'm satisified with my purchase.
 Not up to Alpine Standards March 25, 2010
Snorkeldepth (Orange County, CA)
I live in Orange County. You'd think that I would have great HD reception from a variety of broadcasters. However, the HD signal frequently fades in and out. You get used to the HD signal. When it goes to analog it's like someone puts pillows over the speakers. Also, like another reviewer mentioned . . . sometimes when I start the car I get no sound from the HD radio at all. The fix is to unplug the power from the box and then plug it back in. I'm thinking of wiring in a switch because this happens frequently. When it's working right it's great!
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