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WEHN, WBEA Audio

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GlennO

101.7 The Beach has been an audio mess for a long time. Now 96.9 WEHN joins the family of horrible audio. I can't speak for the 92.9 signal, but the East End 'EHM AAA simulcast used to sound fine. Maybe it's a technical glitch. Perhaps someone with a tin ear got their hands on the processing. I always enjoyed catching this station on the CT shore. I'm surprised no one else has mentioned it. What's the deal?
 
GlennO said:
101.7 The Beach has been an audio mess for a long time. Now 96.9 WEHN joins the family of horrible audio. I can't speak for the 92.9 signal, but the East End 'EHM AAA simulcast used to sound fine. Maybe it's a technical glitch. Perhaps someone with a tin ear got their hands on the processing. I always enjoyed catching this station on the CT shore. I'm surprised no one else has mentioned it. What's the deal?
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I don't know what it is about bad audio on Eastern Long Island, but it's been an epidemic for years! In addition to those you mentioned, 102.5 WBAZ, 105.3 WPTY, 96.1 WJVC, and 103.9 WRCN all sound terrible. JVC and RCN are only since the ownership change, I believe.
 
I noticed that today when 101.7 The Beach came in on tropo. I just thought that the same tropo that brought its signal to NJ was also messing up its STL.
 
AAA ordered non paired radio lines for all of their stations when they moved to Watermill 3 years ago. So Verizon doesn't guarantee quality from line to line. The only station out east that sounds good is WLNG...now in ))STEREO((. My .02 is that is the best sounding station in the metro.
 
WRCN sounds decent to me now. The low bitrate audio thing was fixed earlier this year. WEHM 92.9 also sounds fine, but WPTY 105.3 has been messed up lately, the channels seem imbalanced, muffled audio on right channel. WBEA has been bad for awhile now. 102.5 is also awful, and often not even in stereo. Engineering doesn't seem to be a strong point among eastern LI stations. At least WIGX is sounding cleaner since the new company came in. Of course I think using the TELCO for an STL sucks, microwave sounds better, is cleaner and more reliable. LI is pretty flat so why the use of TELCO is so popular here I dunno...
 
Today WPTY 105.3 and 98.5 Fiesta sound worse than AM quality. Sounds like they are using their own internet streams (28k mono?) to the transmitter site. Considering many stations actually now have decent quality audio streams, it really shows what a bare bones operation JVC Broadcasting really is! ::)
 
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