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In Reply to: RE: KDFC San Francisco - San Jose posted by jedrider on July 19, 2016 at 14:42:09
Lots of folks I know have had their local pride hurt because KDFC only survived because of the good graces of USC - that would be the University of Southern California (in LOS ANGELES)! KDFC is now part of the KUSC "family", and even some of the local Bay Area station call letters associated with KDFC reflect that (e.g., KXSC or some other kind of K*SC formulation). As one woman said to me: "I HATE it that KDFC is owned by USC - Stanford should have stepped up to the plate and taken over! It's just so embarrassing!" ;-)
As for me, since I'm on the other side of the Oakland-Berkeley hills, I STILL don't get the KDFC signal from ANY of their transmitters/frequencies. I actually get KXPR in Sacramento better. No big deal though - I only care when I'm in the car. On either of my indoor home systems, I just listen via the internet when I'm in the mood to hear something on the "radio" (including KDFC!).
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I was in Mendocino for a week, music programming there on the radio is FAR superior to anything we het here in the Bay Area, just with local DJs.
Check out WCLV FM on the Internet, I listen to it a lot, almost never KDFC, which continues
to have safe and lame programming for the most part,
tho it does carry Local Orch Broadcasts.
WCLV carries the Cleve Orch.
The Jitterbug/Dragonfly Combo makes the mp3 level Broadcasts sound good, and my HAP Z1 sound great on Internet Radio, esp with the "Precision" Upsampling selected, as opposed to "Normal".
I actually enjoy the Z1 more than the Mytek or Lampiztor Dacs, tho they are in different systems.
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Lots of stuff from Europe too - Budapest's Radio Bartok is pretty good quality, and Czech Radio "D-dur" broadcasts in lossless compression. (I use VLC media player to listen to it.) I think Tony Lauck was the first one here to give everyone a heads up about the lossless Czech Radio internet broadcasts. The only problem is that they don't seem to broadcast live concerts. For live stuff, I check the "World Concert Hall" site (link below) pretty regularly. Sometimes the "music players" for the various stations require that you have Flash installed (I've booted Flash from my system), but others don't. Also, within iTunes, there's an extensive list of stations (in various music formats) available at various bit rates.
Excellent points- Chris.
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