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Which station have the best soundprocessing in the city at the moment?

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erwin33

Don't know if there have recently been changes or adjustments to the processing at some stations, but maybe time for an update. What do you think of the sound of the various radio stations in the city at the moment? What is used in processing and which station do you think sounds the best and which is have the worst processing at the moment?
 
You're probably thinking of FM stations but it's worth mentioning 1010 WINS has the best sounding audio for an AM station. The voices sound rich and intelligible. That's especially true on today's garbage tuners that filter out audio frequencies above about 3 kHz. Every station but WINS sounds muffled on that kind of radio. WINS has the EQ set perfectly, and it's been like that for a long time. I've never understood why other AM radio stations can't achieve a similar sound.
 
Z100 sounding great, agree. It's not my type of format, music wise but their Omnia.11 sounding great. And Z100 sounding what I miss in the sound of CBS FM. It sounding very thin, dry and flat. Q104.3 also. Stereo widening from CBS FM sounding nice, though and have that typical 80's touch in it. But I don't hear that in the overall sound. For a classic hits station with most of the time 80's you should have processing sounding like that, in my point of view. Like in the old days of Z100.
And I don't know what they done with the sound WBLS, it was for a couple of years ago the best sounding FM station in my point of view but it's also very thin, dry and flat. Don't now what they did.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
You're probably thinking of FM stations but it's worth mentioning 1010 WINS has the best sounding audio for an AM station. The voices sound rich and intelligible. That's especially true on today's garbage tuners that filter out audio frequencies above about 3 kHz. Every station but WINS sounds muffled on that kind of radio. WINS has the EQ set perfectly, and it's been like that for a long time. I've never understood why other AM radio stations can't achieve a similar sound.
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Is 1010 WINS using a Optimod or Omnia? Sounding very good indeed for AM.
 
I do not live there but general experience tells me that the purest, cleanest sounding FMs would have to be the non-coms, probably most of them.
 
FUV sounding great on FM and totally fits the AAA format. Their online stream though, sounding very soft and too low in volume.
 
erwin33 said:
FUV sounding great on FM and totally fits the AAA format. Their online stream though, sounding very soft and too low in volume.
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FUV's HD Radio audio is also too low in volume. WFUV's directional antenna throws a terrible signal to the west into nearby New Jersey causing car radios to constantly toggle back and forth between HD and staticky analog FM by the time you drive over the George Washington Bridge into Fort Lee, not even 5 miles from the transmitter.

That would be bad enough on its own, but there's a huge difference in both the audio character and levels between WFUV's analog FM audio and the HD audio which is much lower. It makes FUV unlistenable when that starts to happen, and I'm guessing the vast majority of people with factory HD Radios in their vehicles have no idea how to force it into analog-only reception mode to get around it.

I can't think of any other stations in the market that have the same issue. You can usually tell when other stations flip out of HD mode because the high end rolls off and you can hear some analog hiss. But at least when the audio level is normalized between the analog and HD, the effect of the station flipping in and out of HD where the signal isn't strong enough to maintain a lock isn't totally jarring like it is with FUV. I don't understand how their engineer can't hear that.
 
Yes I emailed FUV many times about their low volume streams but no reply at all. Don't know if they read this board so they can take note of these issues.
 
erwin33 said:
Yes I emailed FUV many times about their low volume streams but no reply at all. Don't know if they read this board so they can take note of these issues.
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Tell them in an email that you‘ll stop supporting them if they don’t fix the stream. If you don’t support them, well.....
 
I've done that so many times. But I give it up. If someone feels called to do this, who knows it will help. I don't now who is responsible for this. I emailed to their main emailaddress I gues because I fill in the contact form on their website. But I doubt it goes to the responsible engineer.
 
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