On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:37:10 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
Actually, it started *way* back in the '50s, when radio stations
discovered compression, and a little ten kilowatt local radio station
could sound like the national networks on passing car radios, just by
cranking up the modulation.

We didn't have local radio stations in the '50s.

I'm talking about the US, not the UK. We in the UK didn't have
national network*s* in the '50s, either.

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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering