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In Reply to: RE: God and physics are the same thing, and I'm pretty sure that FM works the same way in the USA as it does posted by PaulN on September 8, 2008 at 16:02:16:
I've always found this to happen, when going from an omni or T-dipole to a directional antenna.Yes, even for people within Losight of our big telecom tower with no obvious reflections from hills or buildings, and who in every case thought their FM results were just fine.
What improves? the music becomes more like real music being made by real people, in a real space. Interviews gain intimacy. Much better on nuances, the voice working, and the coherence of 'the sound space as the music happens in it' !? ;-)!
Thankyou for the thoughtful response, and here's more in the same vein.
For me it's the quality of the music being made when I'm listening, and being always on a tightish budget, the money has to go where it would do the most good.
I am fortunate indeed that I don't need a rotator! ;-) both stations I can be bothered with - and most of the others - being on one big tower on a biggish hill. Canberra is a very spread out city, and it's inside the Great Dividing Range. There are TV and FM repeaters in the valley behind us, which has 1/3rd of the pop'n in it.
I will soon be investigating the potential for using the space under my pitched tiled roof, either the existing FM duty (band1.5to2.5) tenna , OR a longish rhombic wire job. ? I'm getting older and my big high mast is very heavy.
I've never been into the technology in some isolated way, because I've always approached things holistically, which made/makes me unpopular! Especially with 'educated idiots' and 'managers' - ;-)!
At 18, in the late 1960's and offered an NUScholarship, I'd discovered that I wasn't alone and it was a legitimate way of seeing things with new academic cred. ...... ?
I wanted to study 'systems', back when you had to wait until you were doing a maths or Science Masters / even a Phd!!!!! I HATED maths, back then!
I did eventually finish up with a Bachelors in Management Science with a systems major, and was a tutor on salary before graduating. mid-life! It's what 'the system identified' does, or makes possible, or better, for us humans, that is my real way of being.
In this case for the impact on me/Trisha of the music and the extent to which the recorded sound allows me 'to be there', and nuances and expression are orthogonal* with sound space coherence, JBTWay.
So technology needs to be understood to that extent.
As a former soldier, I am boggled by how long it took for the term 'weapon's system' to gain currency in the defence field and still at how little understanding of it's rich meaning many of them do still manifest.
My audio path? I discovered music as a 9-10yr old boy chorister in a cathedral, and within 3 years also discovered audio through people in the choir / the ABC recording us - with one stereo mike. And, listening to us# and whole services off 2-gen R2R tapes on serious gear, which was and still is high-end. [But, I'd use better caps and bigger PSU's, and a VCR for tape - ;-)!]
# me?!!!! I was a Leader by then and did solos, and was I nervous, or what!!!!????
So, for me it's all about whether a home sound system can make me suspend disbelief by taking me to the place and with the players e.g. whether I can hear all the singers working!
FM can do this - at least down here in Aussie on ABC Classic FM - and very well indeed with direct broadcasts of performances, and studio interviews.
I believe - despite the FR limits and the DR limits - it's because you are not listening to one or more overlaid copyings, unlike CD's, cassette, LP's, N-genR2R's, and etc, where there can be many or even just one.
In our case we ARE listening to an ADConversion and DAConversion - using mpeg2-'s audio layer but at 512 kbps - AND optimised for starting transients / the attacks of all notes.
It is my experience that a directional antenna makes such results reliably likely and that nothing else does. Especially on stereo* where the MPX process is easily affected by multipath, thus screwing with the fine stuff/space. nestpar?
In the circs, any other approach to audio is going to seem a bittuva wank to me, isn't it!?
So watch out ;-)!
;~)!
click below and give ABC FM a go, maaate! the listen on line button is high, and LEFT!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
http://www.theanalogdept.com/tim_bailey.htm
Edits: 09/08/08
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