[BC] Making music worth listening to

[Chuck Lakaytis]

Two years ago we installed FM HD at a station where they hired the new Chief
Engineer basically because of his IT skills.  I was pretty amazed when I
realized that his concept of good audio was listening to a pair of "amazin'
computer speakers with a sort of bogus subwoofer".

These folks did not save for Acoustic Research or Advent Speakers, nor did
they hotrod a Dynaco amplifier.  O well......

Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering
Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.
135 Cordova St.
Anchorage, Alaska 99501
907 277 6300  Office
907 277 6350  Fax
907 301 4339  Cell

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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of SteveOrdinetz
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 3:02 PM
To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [BC] Making music worth listening to

Could it be that we have a generation who has never heard 
good-sounding audio and doesn't know the difference?  MP3s sound OK 
on a cheap sound system, but play one on a good stereo and they sound 
like crap (and I'm talking artifacts, not simply rolled-off highs). 
OTOH, I don't know anyone under 50 who has a sound system that's much 
better than something you'd find at Walmart.

Foreign a concept as it is to many of us, most people only care that 
something sounds "ok", they're not into high fidelity.  They'll only 
notice when it sounds so awful as to be fatiguing.



At 05:07 PM 10/22/2007, Dana  Puopolo wrote:
>Perhaps the MP3 (with it's rolled off high end response over 10 k) is less
>edgy then the (too bright) CD?
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>-D
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>I often wonder if this kind of sound is what unconsciously impels
>people not to buy CDs. Yet the illegally filed-shared MP3s have been
>subject to the same mastering and this doesn't keep people from
>downloading them. So I'm not ready to say that current mastering
>practices are what are driving people away from paying for music.
>After all, people continued to listen to FM radio in New York City in
>the '80s when over-aggressive processing made the sound much worse
>than most of today's "hot" CDs. (I still remember visiting NYC around
>that time and being amazed to find only two stations that I could
>listen to for more than 30 seconds before I felt an overwhelming
>compulsion to turn off the radio.)
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