On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:13:30 +0100, Adrian Caspersz
wrote:

On 07/04/17 08:39, Brian Gaff wrote:
Well, it does not have to be that way. certainly back in 2000 r2 put out a
Bee Gees concert with wonderful dynamic range and quality on DAB. Some of
the concerts recorded for radio 1 in the 70s and 80s were very good also,
but when more recently they have rebroadcast some of them they are
compressed to hell and back. I know this as I have high quality recordings
from FM of the originals.
As I say, they need to decide what they are aiming for. Its not just
classical lovers who like good quality output.
The standards at the bbc have fallen to a new low and now I suspect most
listeners would be astounded just how realistic and good so called pop
concerts can be.

Pop music was always second to classical with regard to funding (elitism
etc...), hence why the Pop's reliance on dynamic range compression to
cope with limited bandwidth, and now an unfortunate addiction to using
it from the industry - even for CDs FFS.

There are plenty of instruments and "instruments" played outside an
orchestra that could also do without the effects of lossy data
compression, but I wouldn't expect them to change the status quo for that.

A problem here is that lossy compression is really based on the kind
of dynamic range you get in uncompressed acoustic music, and it does
that quite well. Hypercompressed pop is much harder to compress while
keeping decent sound quality.

d