On Sat, 09 Jan 2016 11:31:37 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
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.


The DAB standard had this built in at the receiving end, so you could
listen in a car with heavy compression but still enjoy full dynamic
range at home. This seems to have disappeared.

d

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