[BC] WQXR Switch - Video

[Mark Humphrey]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 8:59 PM, kj4hyd <kj4hyd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My question is this: Why on Earth did you reduce the Bandwidth of the
> Internet Stream? As cheap as Bit Casting is to do, why not keep the
> High Fidelity 93 kbps stream? As demanding as Classical Music, as
> well as Classical Music Fans are, a 32 kbps stream is just NOT going
> to deliver the quality it takes to send out that format.
> --

WQXR should try to contact the Austrian public station OE1 and find
out what what type of processing is in use ahead of the encoder there.
 For Windows Media at only 64 kbps, it sounds surprisingly good on
OE1's Classical format:

http://oe1.orf.at/konsole/live

Mark