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iHeart stations in Denver and L/R not balanced

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FM_Listener

I don't mean this to be disrespectful, but I don't understand how I can tune to a station and hear a problem within 3 seconds, but the problem just stays there for days and weeks.

I don't know what the iHeart engineers are up to, but they don't seem to notice issues with audio balance. Plus this is a new problem with these stations.

95.7 The Party had the audio way to the left. I emailed them and now it's better, but still a little left.

KBCO has the audio a little to the right.

Channel 93.3 has audio a little to the right.

This morning 106.7 The Bull had on the Bobby Bones show and all the audio was on the left side, no audio on the right until they went to commercial, then it was normal.

It's not my equipment. I've checked it on more than one radio, on speakers and on headphones. And it's easily confirmed by switching to mono and hearing the audio dead center.

Yes, I'm picky, but it's annoying. I would think there would be some well established calibration standards. Plus you can just hear it.

I find it strange that it's affecting so many of their stations (other owner stations are fine). Do they have a new engineer? Or have they been doing major studio work?

KBCO used to have perfect audio.


On a different note (non-iHeart), 105.5 The Colorado sound still plays half their songs in mono for no apparent reason. I emailed their black hole about that months ago.
 

You are right to expect good audio from these stations. They spend plenty of money on transmitters and studios. I'm sure they expect the audio to be as good as can be expected.

Unfortunately, where an AM-FM station in years past might have a single engineer, today that engineer is taking care of an entire cluster. And may have to take of co-owned stations in Colorado Springs and Pueblo as well.
 
93.3 is not KBCO, it's KTCL, but KBCO does still have the audio a couple of dB (just by ear - haven't measured it) to the right ongoing. They used to have some of the best audio.

Funny, stations are falling apart around here. This isn't iHeart, but 99.5 The Mountain started having severely distorted audio this weekend (and still today). Even a non-picky person would have a hard time listening. I called them and asked the DJ to let the engineer know.
 
FM_Listener said:
93.3 is not KBCO, it's KTCL, but KBCO does still have the audio a couple of dB (just by ear - haven't measured it) to the right ongoing. They used to have some of the best audio.

Funny, stations are falling apart around here. This isn't iHeart, but 99.5 The Mountain started having severely distorted audio this weekend (and still today). Even a non-picky person would have a hard time listening. I called them and asked the DJ to let the engineer know.
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106.7 the bull sounds pretty good l to r for the most part have you tried this station yet?
 
I agree, The Bull sounds good.

But it's a drag to hear some of the ones that used to be good going bad now. The Mountain still sounds really bad, like an audio circuit is being over driven, or actual over modulation (it's also loud).

KOOL 105 will sound great on one song and then the next song will be distorted.

Not to bad mouth anyone, but I still find it kind of crazy that with simple listening you can hear these issues, but they persist.

Just listened to The Colorado Sound for about 5 seconds and moved on because the Talking Heads song was in mono (definitely not released that way). Totally weird to play some songs in mono and some in stereo.
 
FM_Listener said:
I agree, The Bull sounds good.

But it's a drag to hear some of the ones that used to be good going bad now. The Mountain still sounds really bad, like an audio circuit is being over driven, or actual over modulation (it's also loud).

KOOL 105 will sound great on one song and then the next song will be distorted.

Not to bad mouth anyone, but I still find it kind of crazy that with simple listening you can hear these issues, but they persist.

Just listened to The Colorado Sound for about 5 seconds and moved on because the Talking Heads song was in mono (definitely not released that way). Totally weird to play some songs in mono and some in stereo.
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If you dx say kool 105 would you be able to tell the difference in distortion on headphones or just through a speaker on playback?
 
Syfy said:
If you dx say kool 105 would you be able to tell the difference in distortion on headphones or just through a speaker on playback?
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With KOOL 105 I can hear the distortion when I'm listening at home on good equipment with speakers or when I'm walking and listening with headphones on the phone (actual FM radio, not streaming). Most songs seem fine, then there will be one that's quite distorted. I just change stations then and come back later. Maybe they have different PCs they play files from and one has the audio output too high? Total guess of course. In the car it's not as noticeable of course because of all the background noise, but I think I've heard it there also.

Today I think they're on low power maybe. Totally different issue.
 
Yay 99.5 The Mountain fixed their distorted audio. It's on the soft side now (lower audio level than most other stations), but it's nice and clean sounding now. Just have to turn the volume up a bit.
 
93.3 is way to the right today. Ugh. Have to ban them for a while now. HD Radio is less to the right, but that quality severely lacks. Too bad, good station otherwise.
 
yes, you are picky and it is annoying. I know one of the Iheart engineers and hes a pretty nice guy. I'm not going to divulge his contact information but if you had actually called their office and asked to speak with him, im pretty sure he would've been glad to answer questions or address your concerns. I cant recall specifics but in at least one case where you complained about audio issues, they were moving studios.

Complaining on here solves nothing and isnt going to get their attention
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
yes, you are picky and it is annoying. I know one of the Iheart engineers and hes a pretty nice guy. I'm not going to divulge his contact information but if you had actually called their office and asked to speak with him, im pretty sure he would've been glad to answer questions or address your concerns. I cant recall specifics but in at least one case where you complained about audio issues, they were moving studios.

Complaining on here solves nothing and isnt going to get their attention
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P.S. I wont divulge the engineers contact info because hes a friend and the info I have is his personal info, i dont actually have his work email/phone.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
yes, you are picky and it is annoying. I know one of the Iheart engineers and hes a pretty nice guy. I'm not going to divulge his contact information but if you had actually called their office and asked to speak with him, im pretty sure he would've been glad to answer questions or address your concerns. I cant recall specifics but in at least one case where you complained about audio issues, they were moving studios.

Complaining on here solves nothing and isnt going to get their attention
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What station was moving studios?
 
Syfy said:
What station was moving studios?
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i honestly dont remember.. it was just within the building not across town or anything. i just recall there was a pretty valid reason for some of the issues.. and the original poster didnt bother finding any of that out
 
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