Re: Am I getting paranoid or is the begining of the end?

In article <LAMrg.16552$Xp3.1424@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, DAB sounds worse
than FM wrote:
I think the reasoning behind this must be that the type of material
typically broadcast by Radio 3 is such that technical impairments
would be more noticeable than on other types of material.

Nonsense.

At the risk of repeating a conversation I think we've already had, why
do you think it is nonsense? Classical music generally tends to be
created from natural sounds, i.e. voices and acoustic instruments, which
the listener could be expected to have heard in real life, and therefore
recognise when they don't sound realistic. Of course some pop music does
this too, but most of what I've heard in recent years seems to be either
electronically generated or so highly processed as part of its
production that it doesn't resemble any real acoustic environment I've
ever heard, so I assume it isn't meant to sound real. Also, classical
music, in general (I know there are exceptions, there always are), makes
far greater use of variations in loudness as a parameter of expression,
often including sounds at quite low levels, which can push any audio
system closer to its limits of accuracy. I'm sure this is the thinking
behind the decision to use higher bit rates for this kind of music.

Rod.

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