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(FM) Audio Processors

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Starting about 3 years ago, I noticed an improvement in the sound quality
of a local FM station (better treble, better imaging), now, more of our FM
stations sound better, has there been a breakthrough in Audio Processing,
or maybe the FM stations are using different adjustments?


Kirk Bayne
 
No major breakthroughs in a very long time. My suspicion is someone new came into town at the first station (probably a PD, chief engineer, or GM) and either updated equipment from something out of the 80s, or fixed the settings. Then everyone else played catch-up.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
No major breakthroughs in a very long time. My suspicion is someone new came into town at the first station (probably a PD, chief engineer, or GM) and either updated equipment from something out of the 80s, or fixed the settings. Then everyone else played catch-up.
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Sounds like a radio version of the Infinite Monkey Theorem.
 
There are a surprising number of things that can affect audio quality of an FM station. Audio processing, being only one item in that long list.
 
Stations have started to realize the big difference between compressed (mp3/AAC) files and .flac or .wav files when heard over the air. Combine that with the fact that digital storage has become dirt-cheap and you get more and more people choosing to ditch their compressed files. I suspect that's a factor.

Dave B.
 
DaveBayArea said:
Stations have started to realize the big difference between compressed (mp3/AAC) files and .flac or .wav files when heard over the air. Combine that with the fact that digital storage has become dirt-cheap and you get more and more people choosing to ditch their compressed files. I suspect that's a factor.

Dave B.
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Wow. Twenty years later, poof, those files are gone. The Mp2's and otherwise compressed files had a good run, didn't they?

I edited such files for radio way back when.... 1998-2005 or so. How time and tech flies.
 
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