"David Looser" wrote in message
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A station once described by it's MD as a "pop" station that happens to
play classical music. Sums it up pretty well IMO. I can't listen to it
either, not only because of the processing, but because it only plays
short "classical pops" or the well-known bits out of longer works.




I once edited the audio for a very up-market corporate video
presentation for which the client had, at enormous expense,
secured the rights to use the music of Jean Sibelius for one particular
scene, a breathtaking panoramic helicopter shot of the vast forests
near the Finnish/Russian border. The client sent me a message
to "montage the best bits of the Karelia Suite into about 32 secs"

Iain

On 12 Feb 2009 08:05:05 GMT, John Phillips
wrote:
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I went with one of the accurate types and it certainly doesn't lack bass.
If I listen to the opening of Das Rheingold, the low E-flat (about 39
Hz) rumbles perfectly just beneath the opening 130-some bars, just as
the composer intended (to denote the constant bedrock of the Rhein).
On bass-boosted types that continuous note thunders quite unacceptably.


Pardon the off topic post, but would you mind telling me what IEM you
bought?


Steven

John Phillips wrote:
On 2009-02-12, Adrian C wrote:
John Phillips wrote:
I speculate that the acceptability of processing may possibly be related
to whether the music has an "acoustic reference" or not.
Snip
Yes. The genre actually doesn't matter. You have to postulate both the
existence of an "acoustic reference" and experience of it. Otherwise how
do you explain the listener figures for Classic FM (a station I cannot
bear because of its processing). A station for those who never listen
to live classical music?

Well, there is an argument for all that processing if you're in a car.
But the adverts ..............
Roger Thorpe

In article ,
Roger Thorpe wrote:
John Phillips wrote:
On 2009-02-12, Adrian C wrote:
John Phillips wrote:
I speculate that the acceptability of processing may possibly be
related to whether the music has an "acoustic reference" or not.
Snip
Yes. The genre actually doesn't matter. You have to postulate both
the existence of an "acoustic reference" and experience of it.
Otherwise how do you explain the listener figures for Classic FM (a
station I cannot bear because of its processing). A station for those
who never listen to live classical music?

Well, there is an argument for all that processing if you're in a car.

One of the features of DAB - but not IIRC ever implemented - is the
ability to reduce the dynamic range for noisy environments like in car -
or for late night listening.

But the adverts .............. Roger Thorpe

That's how commercial stations get their income. Surprisingly. ;-)

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*It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On 2009-02-12, Steven Wayne wrote:
On 12 Feb 2009 08:05:05 GMT, John Phillips
wrote:
snip
I went with one of the accurate types and it certainly doesn't lack bass.
...
Pardon the off topic post, but would you mind telling me what IEM you
bought?

Etymotic ER-4P
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John Phillips

On 12 Feb 2009 17:48:41 GMT, John Phillips
wrote:
On 2009-02-12, Steven Wayne wrote:
On 12 Feb 2009 08:05:05 GMT, John Phillips
wrote:
snip
I went with one of the accurate types and it certainly doesn't lack bass.
...
Pardon the off topic post, but would you mind telling me what IEM you
bought?

Etymotic ER-4P

Thank you.

Steven