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OLDIES RADIO LIKE YOU REMEMBER THE GOLDEN AGE OF TOP 40

The 24K stream reminds me of the cheap Penncrest radios I had back when this music was new. Great for nostalgic effect. Good job, Steve.

Don
 
Those days wont be forgotten :)
 
Marathon Don said:
The 24K stream reminds me of the cheap Penncrest radios I had back when this music was new. Great for nostalgic effect. Good job, Steve.

Don
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I don't thing he's no longer 24K. He's 112K according to my player. And he's in stereo. The golden age of FM.
 
Starbucks said:
I don't think he's no longer 24K. He's 112K according to my player. And he's in stereo. The golden age of FM.
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And it sounds bad, there's an annoying buzzing noise in the background now and some nasty Mp3 phasing artifacts. It's really evident when listening on headphones.
 
My own tastes being odd, I don't care for some of the overburned classics.
I am hearing the effects of two A/D samplings at similar yet not SAME rates.
That is, I can hear artifacts at the streamed 112K, which should be almost transparent with some mild swirling, but I also hear
the artifacting of the files interacting with the streaming rate to produce a new sound or "chord" in the music.
The combination of two A/D passes which are similar in frequency yet not synched will always have this.
The only way to lose this sound is to have your files at a rate much higher than the streaming rate.
Two greatly differing rates, at least. The same thing happens when a print publication re-uses a photo with a half-tone screen
and they don't line it up properly, you get a Moire pattern.

There are ways to mitigate swirling. You might decide to split difference between AM and FM sound and hard clip all high freqencies
above 10khz. The more you let the frequencies from 4000-7000 define your "sharpness" rather than 7000-up, you'll swirl a lot less.
But that's not the major problem here.

There is a warbling intermod that is very striking and odd in Undone" by Three Dog Night.
Some notes sound like they were generated by an old Bell Telephone touch-tone pad with two more rows of buttons.
I'm not kickin, I'm trying to help. At least turn down the overall brightess and re-record files with "accquired noise" "hiss, etc".
I do like the tight fit of all the elements.

Now the Cowsills and Eagles are having something like a "grinding vacuum cleaner effect" mar their voices.
Not an extraneous noise, but a effect more like the difference between two samplings being different by several hundred hertz.
There is a problem, and the more I listen I am hearing lots of added IM in program material under 1000 hz, very odd.
I'm not detecting this in in sweepers or spots, but immediately upon return to the musical program.
Maybe it's a 128kbps/112 issue. I know I gave up using 128kbps for any new files and use only 192kbps now.

Hope you can get this fixed.
 
Good post...learned some things on there....but do you think if he uploaded 64K it would he get rid of that background problem or artifacts? Should he stay in stereo? I know he has an optimod, and he uses some vinyl for his recordings for music and which I can tell. But I find that sound irritating as well as some of those re-recordings....I have to go back listening to 60's on 6.
 
Never go down in either rate which might be in question. 64k upload will only be worse because it will hurt the upper scale defintion which is actually pretty good right now. This is an issue with two parts, somewhere.
The fact it shows up at all bespeaks that one bitrate is not quite up to the task unless it sounds OK off the board and it's going straight to an analog feed. But when not feeding analog, the bitrate of the file sources should be maybe 1.5x the rate of the stream or better.
May I suggest that all files be 128 or 192kbps minimum? I notice the harshness of 128 files on my AM where the radio is good to 15 khz.

I have had quite a number of people suggest that I stream my AM 1620, but I have a hard time accepting the swirlies, regardless of costs.
How much does the 1650 stream actually cost? Locally hosted, remote, or howzit work anyway?
 
I don't hear the intermodulation effect anymore after a a while listening, but the 24k swirly is beyond my ability
to let the music transcend the bitrate. I am a bit too much of a perfectionist.
I am comparing the 24k "Are You Ready"by Pacific Gas and Electric with my own 192k streamed over a real hifi 1962 radio,
so I'd almost hafta say I'd prefer the previous weird effect at 112k, which only shows itself some of the time, instead
of the 24k which cannot for a moment be forgotten while listening.
I'd rather lose the swirlies and have the 112k resolution with the weird effect.

Tell us more about the steps and processes happening, so we can figure out what's happening.

I love the spots, and sure do wish my mike audio sounded so fine. That's a job for another day.

My wife bought me a REAL cast metal "ON AIR" illuminated annuciator sign for Christmas.
Now I need to build a relay interlock box for the monitor speakers, microphone and power to the light, and match my dang
microphone to the pre-amp.

Is 128k streaming ridiculously expensive? What kind of connection do you use for upload?
I've never heard any glitching, stuttering of droputs.
 
Tom Wells said:
Now the Cowsills and Eagles are having something like a "grinding vacuum cleaner effect" mar their voices.
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When was the last time that those two acts were ever mentioned in the same sentence? ???
 
Sounds good, but maybe crank the 'verb back a notch...not too much, just a notch. During the "Saturday Night Fever" spot, some of the audio reminded me of the station I was at and the Mutual "BEE-DOOP" cue tone stood out when there was a pause. But it does make the music sound the way I'd like my Oldies station to sound.
 
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