Last typewriter factory in the world shuts its doors
James Knott
james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Mon May 2 16:21:57 UTC 2011
Yanni Chiu wrote:
> Does anyone else think that a radio station broadcast often sounds
> better than the CD playing in the CD player (i.e. not CD transferred
> to MP3)? Is this due to the audio engineer fine tuning with the
> equalizer, or has the CD "recording" been intentionally neutered. I've
> been seeing on the playlist of internet radio stations, something like
> "AAAA (radio edit)" for some songs.
Well, for starters, even FM radio isn't capable of passing what a CD can
do, so some compression is necessary. On top of that, many stations
have the horrible habit of over processing the audio so that it simply
can't sound as good as it might otherwise.
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