[BC] processor insanity

[Jeff Glass]

In a message dated 2/3/2010 7:18:29 PM Central Standard Time, broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:

>oday's technology makes high quality audio so easy to achieve, yet, we're bound and determine to screw the audio up.

>And, can someone please stop the square wave insanity on modern CD's?

>Thank you.

>Jim Graham
>jgprods at bellsouth.net

Jim:

It goes back to our caveman instincts and our will to survive. Survival of the fittest. Loud =Strong. Loudest = Strongest, therefore the one most likely to survive. The best I can determine is that all of the clutter and repitition is there for a sonic signature. The listeners don't listen to it, but they hear it. We have a station in town that has a positioning statement that they immediately play through something that gives it telephone frequency response, they follow that with three Morse code dots. It drives me crazy. Who was the idiot who decided this would attract listeners?  Stuff like this goes on all the time. HD is not going to help this kind of "creativity" so to the general public, HD will sound the same as analog does.

As far as an explanation, I have no idea.

Jeff Glass