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It's Official -- WSRQ is history

Doesn't make any sense

Why would they take a call sign that really relates to the area and change it? Ya really gotta wonder who is guiding the ship over there on Independece. WSPB since the forties gone for WSRQ. Not a bad idea. But changing it again. Just like changing WAMR "AM Radio" to WDDV Makes no sense to me.
 
Surprised they didn't go back to WSPB. How do they sound programming music with cc's mandated 5khz processing, or is that just for talk?
 
CC stations with music programming are allowed 6 khz audio. WOW! HI FI, huh? Actually, it doesnt make any difference. Most people cant hear it anyway. Most radios start rolling off the highs at about 3.5 khz. Sad, isnt it? There is no excuse for such poor receiver performance. It's why most people think that AM sounds so bad. In reality, its as good or better than FM, fidelity wise. Try listening with a real wide band radio like a pre 1970's radio or a GE superadio and you can really understand how good AM really can sound.
 
Man sbe you are right about the Superadio..It sounded great..as did pre-1973 Chrysler car radios..I remember listening to WAPE 690 while driving north on 95 in 1974..awesome. I remember in 1976 at WLCY we got one of the first tri-band compressors the Dorrough..but it was so slow in the release department..At 1250/WDAE IN 1978 we had a wild processor setup..Get this..THREE Audimax III's all sped up with the little resistor cut out..fed by THREE UREI graphic EQ's..one with the HIGHS boosted, and lows cut off..one with MIDS only..and one with LOW boosted and highs cut off..all outputs into a SHURE MIXER..so we could control the overall "sound" of the station..the outputs of the SHURE mixer were split, and went into an ORBAN Spring reverb with one side of the reverb feeding the other for ((((extra-decay))) and the other side into a conservative LA2..both combined into a VOLUMAX before departing the building on a high grade twisted pair to the transmitter site at Egypt Lake..HOLY MOLY that station sounded good..Never heard anything like it. This was in the Chris Rathaus days...Rounsaville had guts then!

Music CAN sound terriffic on AM if given the chance.
 
sbe1 said:
Most radios start rolling off the highs at about 3.5 khz. Sad, isnt it?
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The IBOC AMs' analog audio here in Miami sounds like CD quality when compared to what WTPS/1080 is running for their processing (in analog)....It must be an STL issue because it (easily) has to be 3khz, or even below. Yes, embarassing....They recently flipped from brokered Spanish preachers and under the old format I just presumed it was that alot of the preachers used bad phone lines from their respective churches, but when I heard the a show done from the WTPS studios, and it sounded just as bad as the preaching, wow....It actually hurts to listen. On just about every new radio I have.
 
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