Radio Road

Posted by Timbo in Oz (A) on July 21, 2009 at 01:15:22

8.00pm IN PERFORMANCE
With Simon Healy

Aix-en-Provence Festival


Handel Belshazzar, HWV61 2hrs44'53


Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin
RIAS Chamber Choir

René Jacobs, conductor


Rosemary Joshua, soprano
Kristina Hammarström, contralto
Bejun Mehta, countertenor
Kenneth Tarver, tenor
Neal Davies, bass

Recorded in the Grand Théâtre de Provence
Courtesy of Radio France
Warmest

Timbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger

And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!

'Still not saluting.'

http://www.theanalogdept.com/tim_bailey.htm

• RE: more radio at its almost best?! - ziggy 23:36:00 07/22/09 (2)
  In Reply to: RE: more radio at its almost best?! posted by Timbo in Oz on July 21, 2009 at 01:15:22

  Missed it Timbo.
  
  Heard DAB at Harvey Norman's here in Perth..............what a load of crap!!!!..............''dynamic range?''..............what dynamic range!!...........sounded like 10 db.
  

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  • RE: more radio at its almost best?! - Mercury Boy 02:36:35 07/23/09 (1)
    In Reply to: RE: more radio at its almost best?! posted by ziggy on July 22, 2009 at 23:36:00

    I hope this endless promotion of digital radio by ABC Classic FM on their breakfast and drive programs will come to an end soon. It is driving me nuts, and they are now making rediculous claims that it sounds better than analogue FM. Hopefully consumers are not so stupid as to believe all this advertising nonsense.
    
    The problem is that as you have seen, DAB+ is "hard sell". Walk into any store (even proper audio stores who ought to know better) and they will try and shove an abysmal sounding digital radio using horrible digital compression technology down your throat because it is new, you have to have it, but probably most importantly, there are nice big profit margins for selling them.
    
    For my own part, I love my Creek Evolution tuner, and I will be powering it up daily and listening to proper quality sound until the analogue tramsitter is literally shut down for the last time.
    

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    • RE: more radio at its almost best?! - ziggy 23:51:29 07/23/09 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: more radio at its almost best?! posted by Mercury Boy on July 23, 2009 at 02:36:35

      Luckily, I have one local community station that is only a 3 minute drive from my home. They transmit some fantastic sound and I can't see them going digital anytime soon.
      
      Same goes for RTRFM which is a member sponsored station in Perth. They too transmit great sound and have a good variety of programs.
      
      But, they're not ABC CLASSICAL FM,(not even close) which I will sadly miss when they do eventually ditch analogue FM.
      

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