HighFi Dream

Position 126 of 1,481 in the United States. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

Three stations in the United States lead with the tag new wave, and HighFi Dream is one of them. That is a small enough group to hear end to end, and the tags are the broadcasters' own words rather than a classification imposed here.

The stream is encoded at 1200 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for the United States. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

The stream is OGG, which is unusual anywhere: the United States' listing is dominated by MP3. Formats outside the common three are typically a deliberate choice by a broadcaster who cares about the encoding chain, and they are also the ones most likely to give a browser trouble.

The stream is served from cdn06-us-east.radio.cloud, which no other entry in the United States uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.