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Audio lousy on WKSS and CC musings

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The processing is terrible on WKSS 95.7 recently. It sounds kind of tinny to me. In HD news, WHCN 105.9 HD signal has been unlockable for at least a month which means no WPOP simulcast on HD2. WWYZ 92.5 still ID's its HD that has been absent for a year. WUCS 97.9 has no RDS yet. What's going on at the candy cane building? One prediction: WUCS might eventually stand for "UConn Sports".
 
It stands for "Ultimate Connecticut Sports", despite the fact their signal barely leaves Hartford County on the Connecticut side. As for U-Conn, how long are the current deals with WTIC-AM 1080 anyways?

As for the legal ID stuff, I noticed that for a time on Saturday, WDRC-FM was using an old "Saturday Salute To The 70's" liner. The ID was the previous one where the singers didn't say "FM-HD 1". Strange! :)
 
I hate to say it, usually, I seem to be getting better audio of WKSS via iHeart Radio (but not today), and it's also at least 8 seconds ahead of the actual station. The audio is much lower in quality than it used to be and not much better in HD, and there's a very tinny quality that becomes painful to the ears after a very short time. It almost reminds me of the audio quality on WKCI.

Since we're at it here, WHCN was mentioned elsewhere as it's HD not locking in, I was in Southington just below the mountain yesterday morning and yes, this is true, no lock on HD. I've also noted that for the past few days TIC-FM not having it's HD-2 or HD-3.
 
The audio on WKSS sounds fine to me. If anything, WKCI has had extremely lousy audio for years now. They sound like a low bitrate internet stream.
 
KSS sounds better the past couple of days. For a few weeks, they had been running the "KC101 Signature Processing." That's where you get your Class B FM to sound like a 250-watt AM Daytimer from the 70's.
 
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