On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:27:32 -0000, "Glenn Booth"
wrote:

Hi,

"Glenn Richards" wrote in message
...
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?

All of this has *nothing whatever* to do with anyone's ability to hear
or listen, and everything to do with market forces. What's your
point? Radio sounds crap, so Roderick can't hear?

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.

So what? I also run DVD audio through the TV. It's a totally
separate signal path to the audio that goes to the 5.1 system, and
has no impact on it at all. It just means that the kids can watch their
Dora the Explorer DVDs without faffing around with multi-channel
audio. When I want the full monty, I can just switch between audio
paths. Easy peasy.

Me three and - guess what? - I can discern no audible difference
between the signal paths when they're level-matched and I don't *know*
which is switched in. Not 'high end' perhaps, but an Alps pot into an
Audiolab 8000P driving Tannoy 633s isn't too shabby.

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.

How can you possibly know this? It's a completely baseless
assertion. The fact that a bit of wire goes from the DVD player
to the telly doesn't mean a thing. You're basically saying that
anyone who uses a fully wired SCART lead is listening to
sub-standard audio. It isn't so.

Richards is heavily into baseless assertions - he even thinks he can
hear differences among cables..........
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services
----------------------------------------------------------
** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY **
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.usenet.com