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Brian-Gaff wrote:
Well, there is sensible compression and there is ridiculously high
compression, and badly set up compression, Is talk sport listening?]

Radio 1 and many other pop orientated stations use a form of
compression that almost seems to end up with a straight line of level.
R2 do this sometimes and at others seem to use a kind of gain riding
system that gradually winds the level up akin to a cheap recorder.
Brian

The argument for this heavy compression tends to be car listening. Yet I
seem to manage hearing what I want to in the cars on R4 which doesn't do
this. And the heavy compression that LBC etc use simply puts me off ever
listening to them.

As I get older and my hearing deteriorates, it's even more obvious to me
that only R4 (speech wise) come close to getting things right on most
occasions. Much of TV seems to have lost the plot totally. And that's
listing on the same audio chain for both.

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