[BC] Moving the processing to the user?

[Harold Hallikainen]

> At 07:22 AM 12/22/2006, Jim Tonne wrote
>
>>>I agree completely that processing on the road is absolutely
>>>necessary. Most Classical stations process more aggressively during
>>>drive time than the rest of the day.
>>
>>It seems to me the answer is not to process at the transmitter end,
>>which affects everyone, but in the automobile receiver, where it is
>>actually needed.
>
>          Some car radios have been including a
>          "compression" feature, mainly for the
>          CD player.
>
>          I suppose the problem is that if it were
>          left on all the time, TSL would drop
>          to 12 seconds and due to the distraction,
>          auto accidents would increase dramatically.
>


I've always thought we should broadcast with a reversible compression and
then let the listener adjust the expansion level to deal with background
noise issues. In a quiet listening environment, the programming would be
returned to its original dynamic range. In a noisey environment, it would
not.

Harold

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