"John Phillips" wrote in message
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Yes. The genre actually doesn't matter. You have to postulate both the
existence of an "acoustic reference" and experience of it. Otherwise how
do you explain the listener figures for Classic FM (a station I cannot
bear because of its processing). A station for those who never listen
to live classical music?

A station once described by it's MD as a "pop" station that happens to play
classical music. Sums it up pretty well IMO. I can't listen to it either,
not only because of the processing, but because it only plays short
"classical pops" or the well-known bits out of longer works. Oh, and all
those ****** adverts!

David.