On 13/04/2012 10:30, Don Pearce wrote:

It is to do with matching the technical quality of the broadcast
medium with that of the recorded medium. Current pop music with its
clipping, limiting and severely restricted dynamic range does not
require a high bit rate to carry it.

You are a clueless stuck-up old codger who obviously knows nothing about
modern music.

Clue: Modern pop music of the kind that features in the "charts" does
not represent quality modern music any more than a nursery rhyme
represents opera.