Roderick Stewart wrote:

Just for the record, I've worked in broadcasting for 38 years

And just for the record, most FM radio stations sound pretty poor. Radio
1 is compressed so much it has a dynamic range of about 2dB. Radio 2 is
generally OK, Radio 3 sounds very good apart from the music...

Commercial radio is just as compressed as Radio 1... and TV sound is
positively dire these days. The "let's compress everything to within an
inch of its life" mentality has seen to that. We've got digital stereo
and multichannel sound on TV these days ffs, why why why?

About the only thing that isn't compressed is Sky Movies 1-3 with the
Dolby Digital soundtracks.

You may have reached a "decision" that my home AV setup cannot
possibly perform well, based only on my written description of it,
but my own appraisal of it is based on listening, watching, and
comparing. Let's apply some logic please - evidence first, *then* the
conclusion.

Based on the fact you're running audio through the TV for starters.

Are you running the audio from your DVD player through the TV? If so,
what do you do about Dolby Digital or DTS soundtracks, which require a
digital connection between the source and amp/decoder?

But the bottom line is that if it sounds fine to you then great. From
the way you've described it, it wouldn't sound "fine" to me.

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