[BC] dueling algorithms and audio quality

[Broadcast List USER]

DECADES ago (and I believe you were still in DC), SBE Chapter 37 (DC)  
and the AES had a joint meeting.  It was about broadcast audio  
processing.  I found it amusing that the CE of one of the worst  
sounding stations in the market was on the panel.

Anyway, one of the AES guys asked a question:  "Why do your records  
sound so much better than the ones I buy at the record store?"

Among many of the attendees, and they were self anointed audiophiles,  
they thought our processed broadcast audio sounded better than the  
record through their stereo systems!

This was in the days of the loudness wars, and polystyrene promotional  
pressings that would cue burn the first time you tried to dub them.

It disappoints me as I hate the state of current CDs, but the public  
feels loud is better.

--chip

On Oct 7, 2009, at 7:52 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 18
> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:06:38 -0400 (EDT)
> From: lists at loudandclean.com
> Subject: Re: [BC] dueling algorithms and audio quality
> [...]
> [3] The "loudness wars" among the record companies fighting
> to be the loudest CD a radio station music director hears
> on "new music Tuesdays" constantly exacerbates issue #2.
> Why can't they only do that to the promo CDs and not to the
> CDs sold to consumers?
> [...]
> Grady