Variety of music and the chance . . .

Posted by sgmlaw (A) on August 2, 2006 at 09:15:19

In Reply to: Re: Internet Radio Noise posted by Jon C. on August 1, 2006 at 19:31:37:

. . . to hear new things?

Believe me, we had all of that before.

That was AM up to the early '70s. A veritable vast lending library of listening (and cultural) diversity. And good sounding most of the time, too.

I've sat in too many cars lately running XM or other satellite/digital radio feeds. Even with all those Bose speakers and 14 amplifiers pumping endless megawatts everywhere, it dosen't sound all that great. The home based digital radio systems don't sound any better. Not much better than a good vintage era AM front end did. Really. Sit down with a '50s Telefunken or AM-FM Scott or Fisher tuner section, and you'll be floored. Now it's all jammed on one lousy sounding LSIC, so AM (and most FM) is deemed crap by the masses.

And for the highbrows who were into Hi-Fi back then, we had FM. Really nice uncompressed FM with plenty of live feeds and direct from the turntable broadcasts.

We had plenty of audio variety back then. Except it sounded better and we didn't have to pay for it. And most of the broadcasters were true independent stations.

Now you've still got 5000 channels - all coming from one or two vendors.

I guarantee that in under five years, you'll still be paying for your digital radio - but listening to advertising. Lots of it. Across all 5000 channels of it. Guaranteed.

That some of us now peg Redbook CD as the quality benchmark for audio speaks volumes.

People are such lemmings sometimes.

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Follow Ups Full Thread

Topic - Internet Radio Noise - Peter Breuninger 10:42:16 07/31/06 (18)

Back to your question - Quiet Earth 09:37:28 08/16/06 (0)

Errrrr......... - Jimmy 05:56:24 08/02/06 (0)

Re: Internet Radio Noise - Jon C. 19:31:37 08/01/06 (4)

Variety of music and the chance . . . - sgmlaw 09:15:19 08/02/06 (3)

Re: Variety of music and the chance . . . - Jon C. 18:47:33 08/02/06 (2)

Variety is king - Gregg 06:07:03 08/07/06 (1)

Re: Variety is king - Jon C. 10:37:31 08/08/06 (0)

It's what USA's audiences let FM become, made worse, and no longer free. - Timbo in Oz 07:00:25 08/01/06 (10)

Beg to differ - Gregg 10:55:55 08/01/06 (8)

I beg to differ. - sgmlaw 17:43:49 08/01/06 (7)

Re: I beg to lighten up the posts here.......... - Jimmy 07:46:02 08/02/06 (6)

Re: I beg to lighten up the posts here.......... - Jon C. 18:54:45 08/02/06 (5)

'will they ever value better fidelity' - Jimmy 10:25:32 08/03/06 (0)

That is you Jon, - Jimmy 19:42:01 08/02/06 (3)

Re: That is you Jon, - Jon C. 04:48:05 08/03/06 (2)

Need to chime in - Gregg 06:27:50 08/03/06 (1)

t's all about convenience and marketability....analogue FM can't compete against that...nt - millen 09:51:08 08/03/06 (0)

Re: It's what USA's audiences let FM become, made worse, and no longer free. - Peter Breuninger 09:49:18 08/01/06 (0)

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Variety of music and the chance . . . - sgmlaw 09:15:19 08/02/06 (3)

Re: Variety of music and the chance . . . - Jon C. 18:47:33 08/02/06 (2)

Variety is king - Gregg 06:07:03 08/07/06 (1)

Re: Variety is king - Jon C. 10:37:31 08/08/06 (0)

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