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Post Subject: A bit off the topic: Broadcasts in your town.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/23/2012

mats wrote:
Not sure how good it sounds. I get a strong signal from WFMT, but it seems compressed and with a narrow soundstage. Oh well.....

We have the WFMT programs in Boston on Sunday 3PM to 5MP. They are syndicated public broadcasting and they uselessly do not come at good quality. This weekend we had Bernard Haitink with Chicago Symphony doing Mozart Piano Concerto No. 17, Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante and Brahms Symphony No.4. Two weeks back we had Esa-Pekka Salonen with Chicago playing Leonore and Die Meistersinger overture, supplemented with no less than Bruckner 7. The play was not bad but I think that nationwide syndication of Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast come over satellite and as any other PBS programs too destroyed sonically.

There is nothing that could be done to them as they are implanted too deep into the psycho of nation sonic idiocy. However, if you get your WFMT directly to your tuner then you shall not have “compressed and with a narrow soundstage” sound. Chicago is known to have very wide and large “pick up sound” from them and even my crappy PBS Sunday Broadcasts are not “narrow”. If you would like I can post or send to you a fragment of B7 I recorded two weeks back off the air. It is not good sound but it is not “narrow soundstage” for all intended per pose.

If what WFMT dispatch locally even worth then what we have in Boston from WFMT then you need to do what I do in Boston – to press the people who fuck it up to do better job. It is complexly out of public eyes but to get in Boston the Sound as we have it now (and I do not claim that it is so great but it is much better than it might be if I did not stress them almost weekly) it took a LOT of efforts on my side. Get familiar with the people who involved into broadcasting in your town. Explain to them you position and agenda and help them to make Sound better. It is complicated subject but if you do not do it then no one in your town will do it for you.

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