Dave Plowman (News) said:
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Richard Robinson wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) said:
In article ,
Adrian Caspersz wrote:
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.

Think it's more to do with the majority audience. In car listening -
and the little radio in the kitchen etc - are what perhaps most use to
listen to pop radio on.

Expectations, yes. "Pop" is to be listened to on a tinny little tranny,
"classical" is to be listened to in the concert hall.

I doubt many these days sit down in front of their Hi-Fi to listen to the
radio, unlike once. They're far more likely to want their own choice of
music when doing this.

My radio tuner is plugged into the amp, along with the CD player and DAC
box, I sit in front of the Hi-Fi^Hspeakers to listen to everything. But I'm
used to being told I'm not normal :-)

But, expectations. You could maybe call it an aural tradition ... people
expect it to sound like what they expect it to sound like, growing up out of
the days when we expected it to come out of a Transistor Radio. Or (showing
my age ?) possibly an earplug under the bedclothes when we should have been
asleep. Continuity. Radios didn't always plug into Hi-Fis. Ones that will
still cost more.

I think we're saying the same thing, really ?


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