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In Reply to: RE: Seems I wasted about four years posted by airtime on December 17, 2015 at 06:39:30
Don't beat yourself up. There is no need. This is just how things happen. Consider what you have learned (including about yourself) in the time interval.
Most broadcast audio is processed unto death. Even decades ago there were only a very few FM stations that even tried to do it right.
WFLN in Philadelphia was one of those. Driven into darkness by NPR this station was located at the transmitter site. No phone lines, STL, or other. Records were played on Fairchild studio turntables. Microphones were U-47 tube condensers. There were no recorded commercials. All messages were given in conversational voice.
WQXR in NYC was another quality conscious FM station.
WFMT in Chicago too.
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I'll nominate WCLV in Cleveland for that list. I haven't caught one recently; but in the 70's they frequently had live broadcasts from the Oberlin Conservatory. Even with my mediocre gear at the time, the broadcasts were breathtaking. Told me the problem wasn't my speakers (original Advents) or even the Pioneer SX990 receiver I was using; but the phono system and the crappy quality of the other stations in the area. The phono system was not easily fixed as the RIAA EQ in the Pioneer was way off, and upgrading the cartridge and TT wasn't going to help until that was right. I spent hours padding components in the RIAA network until I had it spot on and then got a new TT and cartridge. Pioneer fixed that in the next generation.
Jerry
Compressed with too much gain riding.
That's the one!!!!!
That was or is the only station I was able to get in.
Dumped FM and NEVER!!!! looked back.
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The operative word here is "was". In the early- and mid 60s I had a McIntosh MR65B and a Finco yagi antenna and rotor or a 50 foot mast, in a "hot" if remote FM location. I could pull in WQXR, to my southeast, and stations east and west from Boston to Cleveland. There was a lot of high quality audio on FM in those days.
We just renovated the living/listening room in our NYC apartment and, for months, I have been reinstalling/updating the components and connections. Finally, 2 weeks ago, I got around to installing the antenna connection for the FM/AM tuner which had been disconnected since the spring and I decided to forget about it.
What with the reduction of interesting (to me) FM stations, the decline of their content/quality and the rise of Internet streaming sources, I have not bothered to listen to FM in a year or two. The tuner has been relegated to the closet of lost audio components (to join its predecessor).
But that was long ago when their repertoire was better, too.
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