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Good points and observations....

Your point about multiple encoding/decoding is well taken. What about a station that uses all linear audio but then uses the Barix (MP3) as the STL--only one encoding/decoding. Would that work?

Just for info, I believe Barix also offers MP2 (not MP1, layer 2). And the new Barix boxes offer PCM, I believe.
 
I would think that using the Barix at a remote for voice-only would yield perfectly acceptable results regardless of what the STL is using for transport. On related topic - if the station is using a compressed format for music storage (mp3, mpeg2, etc), then the multiple pass encoding issue must be taken into consideration. A college station I take care of rips their library tracks in mp3 at 320kbps. On-air, the music sounds fine (well, it sounds fine to them) - but their streaming server runs WinDohs Media Encoder at 128kbps: the music on that stream sounds pretty awful IMO.

I too am waiting for the Exstreamer 1000. The app I have in-mind for it is a weekly, 6-hr, radio show that currently uses ISDN to reach several of its affiliates. The closures on the 1000 would make it an excellent replacement for that show. The savings in ISDN charges would yield a darn quick ROI there.
-D
 
I realize this is wandering off topic a bit, but it's pretty important.

I work for a station that used 320K MP3's when they changed over to hard-drive automation several years ago. The audio went through a digital STL from the studio to the transmitter. The MP3's sounded tinny and brittle. Since then, most of the music was re-ripped from the CD's into 44.1K 16 bit .WAV files. There was a very noticeable improvment in the audio that even some listeners picked up on.

There is NO reason to use MP3's on the air. Hard drives are very inexpensive these days.

Andy
 
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