Here in Ohio wrote:
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:29:45 +0000, Serge Auckland
wrote:


We can also look at radio as an example of something that people often
listen to in the background. Radio is compressed (for transmitter
efficiency if nothing else), but it isn't always hypercompressed.
No, not always, but here in the UK and in France, stations compress to
eliminate any dynamic range. As I mentioned before, there was a well
known station Chief Engineer who bragged his processor was so wound up
he got less than 1dB dynamic range. His station of course sounded as you
would expect, but he was happy.

I'm sure I could find some examples of the same thing in my area in
the US too. :-)


Yes, if you're anywhere near Cleveland, you have the Omnia factory
there. They make the fiercest processor currently on the market.In my
previous life, I was the Orban Distributor in the UK, so maybe I'm
biased, but of the processed sounds, I always thought the Optimod did a
pretty decent job, but the Omnia drilled through my head.....

S.