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106.7 sounds horrible

I tuned in yesterday and couldn't believe how horrible it sounded. Does anyone at the station actually listen? Dead air would have been better.
 
Yes it still does sound terrible. They play that station for background ceiling speakers etc. in a couple of doctors' offices I've been to lately. Absolutely none of those songs sound like I remember them.

Last night I was skipping through FM stations on my big McIntosh rig. My amp has those big blue meters and while I was trying to listen to a few songs on 106.7 the pointers went to a certain DB level and stood almost still during the songs. During commericials there was some normal bounce.

I didn't know music could be compressed that much.
 
I forgot and left my XMToGo radio at home yesterday when I left for work. I tuned my car radio to 106.7, but it sounded very distorted. So I put an mp3 CD in the radio player. Compared to XM, all of the Atlanta stations sound distorted to me. But 106.7 is particularly bad.
 
Then you wonder why no one listens to radio anymore. Like I said in the "Savannah" post on this thread,,,station's down there sound clean and crisp. What are we market # 7 ?? Macon even sounds better..Dublin sounds better, Vidalia soundds better. These as& hole program directors in this town better wake up...
 
I just happened to flip by True Oldies tonight, and YEEEESH. I'm not an audio expert, but even the average listener would sense how poor the quality is. I'm not sure if these are the issues previously referenced in this thread, but what the hell?

Maybe Citadel thinks that the processing will be nostalgic for the older demos who listened to the records on AM radio? It's THAT bad.
 
I was using a Walkman this morning, and the Rolling Stones song I heard sounded like it was being broadcast in Mono. Yeah, it was just as bad as an AM signal.
 
They're working on their main transmitter and are broadcasting on a backup transmitter. They were off the air completely about 6 this morning for the changeover.
 
Thanks for clearing that up. They know about the audio issues and are on the back up site near Flowery Branch while they work on the main site. Equipment does break from time to time you know as it runs 24-7 and subject to failure.
 
As an HD Radio listener, I think that 106.7's HD audio sounds much worse than the analog.

I'm disappointed that they took off Eagle 106.7 on HD-2.
 
I was listening to True Oldies 106.7 AM today... The sound is still horrible. Earlier in the day...I had trouble getting them. They are back...with the same AM quality they had on Tuesday night.

Can't Citadel afford express shipping on parts? Since they are neck and neck with the River...every moment with horrible sound counts. They need to get the problem fixed now, not in 4-6 weeks (the average shipping speed of the Post Office in the 90's).
 
Randy & Spiff are going to sound GREAT!!!!!!!!!

Stop hating!!!!!!

Oldies are the future!!!!!!!!!!!
 
ssnake said:
As an HD Radio listener, I think that 106.7's HD audio sounds much worse than the analog.

I'm disappointed that they took off Eagle 106.7 on HD-2.
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I agree on both counts. I'm not sure what they're doing to their audio before it hits the Importer or Exporter, but it doesn't sound good at all - to the point where I find it unlistenable.

One of our stations runs a single HD channel at 96 kbps, and it sounds pretty good. Another runs a 48 kbps split between the main and an HD-2, and it doesn't sound that bad - definitely nothing like WYAY.

Every station has technical issues - that's what keeps us engineers on the payroll. But this many issues, and consistently the same ones?
 
RadioFlyerAtl said:
ssnake said:
As an HD Radio listener, I think that 106.7's HD audio sounds much worse than the analog.

I'm disappointed that they took off Eagle 106.7 on HD-2.
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I agree on both counts. I'm not sure what they're doing to their audio before it hits the Importer or Exporter, but it doesn't sound good at all - to the point where I find it unlistenable.

One of our stations runs a single HD channel at 96 kbps, and it sounds pretty good. Another runs a 48 kbps split between the main and an HD-2, and it doesn't sound that bad - definitely nothing like WYAY.

Every station has technical issues - that's what keeps us engineers on the payroll. But this many issues, and consistently the same ones?
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Knowing Citadel and their money issues, maybe it's the lack of said engineers on said payroll.
 
MRFLASHPORT said:
Maybe I'm picky, but is it just me or is 106.7 audio overdriven? I hear the compressors going into overload and breaking out into a whine at times. I have heard this on my car radio (Pioneer DEH-2900), my main home receiver (Pioneer SX1250), and old Sony ICF-2010. It sounds as if the high end above 10K is overly accentuated. Heard this on several songs and spots. It gets painful to listen to, so much so that I tune out after about an hour. I cannot stand it, it's about as WLTM's audio was. Am I the only one paying attention to this?

Compared to Magic 102.9 out of Gainesville (which has a much better playlist BTW), 106.7 sounds like the audio from a Ramsey kit. Seriously, it's that bad. 102.9's low bit Internet stream sounds better.
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The station is just fine to Me,but I only listen to Georgia Tech football on 106.7
 
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