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The best part of this clip is how little compression the Japanese seem to use on these music stations. Which is weird since their music industry for pop music is some of the loudest stuff you can buy on CD or digital downloads. They really make us look quiet by comparison. I have several Japanese pop/rock albums and if you love at the waveforms they're just solid bricks, walls of sound. It's fatiguing to listen to, sadly, so I don't pull them out of my collection very much. Of course in the US it varies from market to market but most FM stations are overcompressed and sound tiring to listen to as well. The one saving grace is some are too cheap to put much processing power into the HD signal that no one will hear, so it often sounds fuller and more natural than the analog, except for the terrible lossy compression artifacts. Either way, compression is an audiophile's nightmare, lol.
 
Sometimes I wish popular music stations could take a lesson from classical stations and from Family Radio (as much as I know many of you dislike them). I often hear a LOT of dynamic range on Classical stations (and to some extent on FR too). Also, on FR, they rarely if ever talk over the music, even the intros, and they almost NEVER run the end of one song on top of the beginning of another. I like being able to hear an entire song without it being interrupted. (And, when possible, which isn't always, my local FR station, it seems, tries to time its day/night pattern changes to be between things.)

I've heard the above clip before, and I like how it sounds, too. :) That's an example of what I would have expected HD to sound like, using an bandwidth-efficient codec (at least 16 kbps/kHz (56k modems put 56kbps into 3.1 kHz), with 180dB attenuation (or whatever is the difference between undetectable in a screen room vs. causing spontaneous RF burns without direct physical contact) at ±1% bandwidth outside the passband), when the signal trace is barely visible on a SDR.
 
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