"Don Pearce" wrote in message news:4988ac99.103692125@localhost...
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:57:14 GMT, (Don Pearce) wrote:

On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:24:32 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:

In article , Brian Gaff
wrote:
Well, real is no great loss quality wise, but you really do need the
windows media formats as they do have one of the best sounds.

Afraid I cannae be bothered to waste my time with 'doze. Easier to get
the
things I want in other ways. TBH I can live without net radio if no-one
is
providing what I was interested in. :-)

Very few stations seem to be above evn 64kbits and the windows formats
do seem to be able to squeeze listenable stuff out of this, albeit with
some loss of phase resolution on stereo.

Well, the best classical I've found so far is KUAT Tucson. This is
streaming mp3 at 192kbps, and does have a decent variety of classical
music. Yesterday they were playing Stravinsky's Pulchinella.
(spelling?)
At the moment they are playing Sibelius Tapiola. Only listened to each
for
a short time, and via the mid-fi system in the dining room (Armstrong
600,
Spendor LS3/5As) but the results are enjoyable. Also unlike the Swiss
bland
Classic the announcements are in English... well, American, which is
close
enough to serve. ;-

There are some German stations with 192, in mp3, but they just push
out
gold station rubbish most of the time. Some of the US community
stations like the one in Fort Colins on 96bps has classics shows that
sound reasonable. Brian

List of URLs? :-)

I've now had a look at the 'tuner2.com' list. That only gave me 9
'classical' stations, and with the exception of a Hungarian one, all
classicfm clones. When I search it for indian or indian classical I
either
get nothing, or a bollywood station. Not exactly what I was after!

The 'tuner2.com' site only listed a total of just over 200 stations.
Surely
there are thousands of stations? The KUAT one wasn't on the tuner2 list
that I got by searching it for classical.

Is there not a bigger site somewhere that gives a more comprehensive
listing? One no biassed to the bland and predictable? Surely there should
be dozens of stations like KUAT, and bags of indian music stations from
the
subcontinent?

Jim - just tried to listen to KUAT, but it isn't on the air right now,
so tried KUAZ, its sister station instead. Very odd - no discernable
stereo image. I thought at first it was being sent out of phase, but
no. Instead there is a delay of about 3msec between left and right. No
idea what may have happened there.

d

Just recorded a chunk of a few seconds. First half is as received,
then the second is after I have fixed it in Adobe Audition by
re-aligning the L&R channels.

http://81.174.169.10/odds/kuaz.mp3

I don't know how they could get this so badly wrong.

d

Or even how. I can't think offhand of any mechanism that would do that. As
far as I know streaming encoders treat L&R equally, so why there would be a
fixed delay between them is a mystery to me.

S.
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