[Elecraft] [K3] The Way We Rank Receivers (long)

[David Woolley]

The main commercial interests in subjective audio noise reduction, 
particularly for speech, are probably the hearing aid industry.

It is subjective because noise reduction only really removes noise that 
isn't interfering.  That is still useful, as whilst the human brain can 
also do that, it gets tired in the process.

On 25/10/16 16:13, brian wrote:
> This would be tough since the world of RFI sources is huge.  It would
> take some real effort to quantify the world of noise sources and their
> signatures and then find some algorithms to deal with them.  Impossible?
> The world of big data isn't so big any more. Such an catalog might be
> doable.  Algorithms are another issue.  My hope is that NR/NB could be
> made adaptive to recognize the signature(s) and generate appropriate
> algorithms on the fly.
>
> There are a lot of smart people out there who could perhaps address
> these issues.  Unfortunately commercial interests have to see some
> payoff.  They haven't as of yet.  The fact that AM broadcasters are
> being burned by RFI and becoming proactive is a plus.