>>I read somewhere (i.e. i don't know if this is true or not) that the
>>pop/rock
>>stations are compressed so they sound 'better' on cheap radios such as
>>walkman's etc. Considering that many people will be listening at work or
>>other places where they can't get up and change the volume every 2 secs
>>it almost makes sense to mangle the music so it's always the same volume.
>I don't think it's done to make one station sound louder than other's; Radio
>Clyde ( local scottish station) is a lot louder than Scot FM or Radio1, and
>people will just use the volume control to get the volume they like.
Another big reason for compression is financial.
Without it you'd require an extra engineer (you'd have
to employ) to watch the volume all the time as the DJ
is far too busy to keep track of the signal while running
the show.
BTW, to get back on topic,
I'd love to have a compression feature for MD walkmen like
the R50 and for car players. I often want to play back
my favourite recordings at low volume in areas with a
lot of background noise and I have to turn up the volume
quite a bit to hear enough.
Martin / Germany
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