On Feb 21, 5:38*pm, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:
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* *Brian Gaff wrote:

Its been known for years that the perceived loudness has little to do
with peak values. What worries me is that there really needs to be some
kind of protection of dynamic range. So many radio stations seem to
have the great idea of just not having much of it at all. If you want
to hear the worst of the bad, listen to the US station Cool Country.
Its painful.

Talksport takes some beating too. Not that I actually listen to it.

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I don't either, too many adverts, while Five Live has too many
interruptions for "news".

It seems to sound a lot better on DAB, the same goes for BBC 'Five
Live', this is with my Pure 'One' after going into the menu and
setting the Dynamic Range Control (DRC) to zero, but not all DAB sets
have this option. I have read that non-BBC stations don't give you the
option, they compress the audio as for FM before it gets to the
transmitter.

Modern AM transmitters have built-in compression and distortion, to
minimise energy use, except that this often makes them unlistenable.