[BC] Balancing the processing from analog to digital

[Steve Newman]

This was the case on the West Coast during that same time period. Klipsch, 
Tanoy's, KLH etc. would not demo ONLY with pre-recorded material but would 
also tune to stations like KPEN and KSFR using high end tuners. The poor use 
(in all deference to our audio processor manufactures and developers in this 
forum) of audio processing took FM from the status of Audiophile to 
Audio-Grunge. I'll bet WGBH moved receivers as did these aforementioned 
stations and others from around the country who tuned up their stations 
correctly.

Not to go over old territory but this is why I laugh at all this talk of 
digital this and digital that. They can't even get the analog right but that 
was then and this is now. We must move forward into the abyss.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Wood" <richwood at pobox.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [BC] Balancing the processing from analog to digital



> Yes. I worked for WGBH, Boston. I haven't heard them in a fully quieted 
> location in a long time. It would be hard to believe anyone today would be 
> as fanatical about audio as Bill Busiek, CE at WGBH, at the time. It was a 
> magnificent sounding station. WGBH and WBUR helped sell more FM receivers 
> than any other stations in the market, even to people who hated Classical 
> music. Those were the days when High End audio included radio. If you 
> walked into the original Tweeter store in the People's Republic of 
> Cambridge, you'd not only meet Henry Kloss, Roy Aliison and the rest of 
> the pioneers, you'd hear WGBH. They were the only stations that could take 
> a Marantz 10-B tuner for a real ride.