In article ,
Jim Lesurf wrote:
I was thinking about those who listen *exclusively* to spoken word
as opposed to music.

I doubt many listen to just one thing exclusively.

I also suspect that many people watch TV and films and listen to the
radio, and spend far more time intentionally listening to speech than to
music. Apart from 'enthusiasts' like those here I suspect that these
days many people listen to 'AV' systems, not 'audio', but of course that
still requires an audio system as part of its functioning.

Certainly I listen to R4 and watch BBC4 quite a fair bit. These days R4
often via iPlayer. And still find it good to be able to listen via a
decent audio setup.

I have an HD satellite receiver with a rotatable dish - and the receiver
also includes a FreeView tuner. With the changes in FreeView a few months
ago I had to do a hard reset otherwise it wouldn't retune to the changed
FreeView channels - it could only sort of add to them without. So of
course lost all the satellite stuff too. I then had to go through the new
satellite channel lists and make favourites - otherwise the EPG on some is
simply too large at nearing 1000 channels. Most of which is either
encrypted or rubbish. But worth it for the odd gem.
But what was noticeable was just how poor some of the sound was on these
small channels. Seemed to be wound up to maximum and then some. Some of
the 'arab' channels being the worst.

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