In article , Huge
scribeth thus
On 2017-04-07, 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.

I would suggest that Pop's reliance on dynamic range compression was more to
do with the "loudness wars" than limited bandwidth, especially since it
predates digital media.


It often has to be so, a lot of radio is listened to under far less than
ideal conditions where a wide dynamic range would be waste and no
bugger would hear it.

Course there is a world of difference between a tranny kicked up against
the sawmill in our local wood works compared to what I might want to
listen to on Radio 3 at home here....

And even that sometimes benefits from a bit of dynamic range reduction
depending on where you might be listening to it ..

However you the listener should have the choice of source of course...
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Tony Sayer