[BC] RAIN report: HD Radio s Creative Thinking

[Robert Meuser]

These days a lot of TV audio sounds MUCH better than radio. This begins 
audio being 5.1. Even a lot of the stereo is better than radio. The 
other day there was a radio station spot in the middle of a break. It 
had a snippet of their programming. It was the worst  ( and most narrow) 
audio the whole hour.

R


JD Davis (Blackberry) wrote:

>It's not about sound fellas. It's about convenience. Most folks think music on TV sounds good.
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: SteveOrdinetz <hykker at grolen.com>
>Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 08:36:55 
>To:<broadcast at radiolists.net>
>Subject: Re: [BC] RAIN report: HD Radio s Creative Thinking
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>  DANA PUOPOLO wrote:
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>>Okay, let me get this straight..
>>
>>IBOC-FM has 96K of data available. Period.
>>
>>Have any of you listened to a 128K MP3? it's BARELY decent quality compared to
>>CD's. Or how about a 64K Windows Media Stream? Barely FM analog quality if you
>>ask me - and I used to run a bunch of 64K WM streams when I was engineer for
>>www.worldclassrock.com.
>>
>>NOW..we're going to take that 96K data stream (which with ONE stereo channel
>>has somewhere between FM and bad CD quality) and run TWO OR MORE stereo audio
>>streams with it? That doesn't make sense...
>>
>>Why? because it you run only TWO (stereo) streams, the bit rates will be
>>96/2 = 48 Kbits. That's WORSE QUALITY then analog FM!!
>>
>>What's the purpose of IBAC if the quality you end up with is LESS then the
>>analog FM quality you started with?
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>>
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>Because it's D-I-G-I-T-A-L!!!!  That obviously makes it superior, or at 
>least that seems to be the sole selling point for it..."everything" else is 
>digital these days so we're being left behind using old-fashioned 
>analog.  How uncool.
>
>Besides...today's generation doesn't seem to consider audio quality all 
>that important.  Name one person under 25 whose music collection doesn't 
>consist almost entirely of mp3s.  It's digital, it's gotta be good.
>
>I'm starting to sound like Rich Wood.
>
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