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In the Thread: How to record FM broadcasts.
Post Subject: Re: digital playbackPosted by Handful of Qubits on: 11/23/2005
Romy, I would be delighted to hear some of these recordings from your
FM receiver. Unfortunately, here in the San Francisco Bay Area, we have
no good classical radio station. There is one classical station, highly
commercial and apparently with the credo "All Mozart, All The Time". We
do have a good jazz station and some entertaining college stations, but
I miss good public classical radio from back East.
Copying the high-bitrate WAV files to a DVD-R or CD-R makes a lot of
sense, of course. I will just have to find a decent DAC to decode them
- my current one is fairly old and tops out at 48kHz. Maybe a Lavry
Blue...those are almost affordable.
Your enthusiasm for FM radio is encouraging. I have heard some lovely
sound out of radio, and I've wanted to explore that direction for some
time. There's a radio station that broadcasts from the hifi show in
Montreal each year, then picks up their own (uncompressed, high
quality) signal and plays it back for people on headphone setups.
People are always amazed at how nice it can sound - FM doesn't have to
be compressed, low-fidelity garbage.
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