I have a couple modern icoms. I like them very much.
But just listening is hard to beat my kenwood hybrids.
It seems like playing with the af and rf gain I can get rid of noise and keep the speech on the kenwoods.
When I try that on the icoms it just squelches out everything
Of course the kenwoods don’t have the dsp, notching, filters. But more often than not I don’t have to use those features.