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In Reply to: How do you get that on an old tuner? posted by PabloP on February 24, 2007 at 14:33:22:
The receivers aren't so very expensive if HD2 broadcasts are all they're cracked up to be.Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.
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Analog FM stereo, with a decent receiver and a transmitter not driven to the limit will sound better. (I know, that's a lot of 'if's') Actually, FM stereo reception isn't that tough, with a decent antenna and a multipath indicator on the receiver.HD radio uses some lossy compression, like the two satellite radio services do. So, I'm not sure how good that would sound for serious listening on a capable system. Probably ok for background music.
No matter how you slice it, it seems like radio is being "dumbed" down to the level of a Bose car stereo.
Our last commercial classical station here in DC packed it in just a few months ago; happily the PBS station picked up the format (again) and some of the station's personnel and its complete record library. WGMS ("Washington's Good Music Station") had been doing classical music here since at least 1960. The sad thing was . . . they were making money. They had a big, very affluent audience and they sold that to advertisers successfully.
But the owner thought they could make even more money doing sportstalk. God knows why. It's not like there aren't 3 or more other stations in town doing the same thing.
Which reminds me, I need to become a member of the PBS station and put my dollars where my ears are -- I still have a good FM tuner at home!
It was an FM show on old LA station KFAC that got me interested in sound. Skip Weshner, midnight. Played all kinds of music, not just classical, and was sponsored by a consortium of high end audio dealers, many of whom I came to know while doing my field study in grad b-school (on behalf of the rep firm for Teac-Accuphase). Live analog FM was like being there. Anybody do that anymore?
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"Occasionally we list eccentrically, all sense of balance gone."
walking into sound center and having paul carvel mount another cartridge on the grace 707 he had in his HAND! great forerunner to the 'in fidelity' show that came later.
...regards...tr
I've mentioned him before. No one else has ever replied. He turned me on to Barbara Keith. Played a couple of songs from her second album, which he always said was the best album by a "distaff" singer. It was. Sad that he became obsessed with the Chilean protest songs and wouldn't play anything else and then lost his show. One of his sponsors was Ike Golen's store, Dimensions in Stereo, in Torrance. I used to hang out there when I couldn't afford to buy much of anything.
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"Occasionally we list eccentrically, all sense of balance gone."
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