"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:
Why? - It's the *real sound* it sounds like there are no speakers (&c.)
there! (Hand gestures also...)

One of the best speaker tests is well recorded male speech - not music.
And I'll guarantee *any* horn will fail this - and miserably. Best by far
is a Quad ELS...


Yep, the worst bit by far - I blanked out 'with announcer's voices' in a
post the other day.

Carsick FM (DAB) is the worst - very good music (and I mean very good for
digital radio) and then an announcement which sounds nasal and honky by
comparison and, I think, transmits the size of the space the announcer's
sitting in all too well. Differs with whoever it is and I believe R3 doesn't
sound so bad. Totally different with TV dialogue - I never notice anything
out of the ordinary at all.

Nothing's perfect and the good outweighs the bad by miles, in my book!!

Or, put it another way, I wouldn't want the music ****ted up (down) to
'normal standards' for the sake of the odd announcement!!

YMMV.....