[BC] Omnia.FM

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

I don't think that the Fletcher-Munson curves have much relevance now. I think that if anybody bothered to create a similar set of curves nowadays, they'd find that average human hearing has degraded to the 300-3000 Hz range from the damaged introduced during childhood through early adulthood by ultra-loud intra-ear and extra-ear sound sources. Methinks that soon texting will become the only means of communications available. Audio may find some future use in multi-kilowatt sound reinforcement with water-cooled voice-coils, but even that will go away.

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Milton R. Holladay Jr." <miltron at mindspring.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Monday, October 5, 2009 9:17:32 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [BC] Omnia.FM

Yes, louder sounds better as the frequency response of the ear becomes
flatter at higher levels, --and this is without the psycho-acoustic effects
of compression or limiting or phase shifting as applied to sound in
broadcasting or recording being taken into consideration, as they add
additional levels of  complexity.......

In the case of Ancient Modulation, of course, denser audio = more sideband
power = more coverage area = more audience, _etc._.
M