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I was wondering how different would be my audio habits if I “discover” the FM in Boston earlier. I lived in Boston for a few years and did not acknowledge the highly available wonderful word of FM broadcast. I think that if I “FM-wake up” early in the mid of 90s when I just moved in Boston from Philadelphia then the profile of my playback system would be much different. I have somewhere near 1.5K CDs, probably near 15K records, a few hundred tapes, the evolved means to play CD, LPs, Tapes and so on… With my today’s views, if I started today from very beginning then I would probably would not built up the other means to get music beside FM.  Probably the ideal playback would have a very good amplification, very good acoustic system, as good as possible tuner and recording options. The LP, CD, Tape options probably would be not as extend as I have now. I do appreciate an opportunity to play CD and LP with better result but how much efforts I shell spend for LP and CD playback if FM makes over 80% of my listening?

The diversity, the quality (sonic and artistic) of FM is truly overwhelming, leaving practically no time or interests for other avenues to “get music”. For instance the WGBH last month transmits live-to-tape recordings from different Music Festivals around the world. They are the local Massachusetts festivals, the US festivals as well as the recording of Europeinian Radio Broadcasting. Some of that festival performances are remarkably good and those moments of the chamber groups or individual artists I would hardly ever find on the “industry sponsored” CDs.

For instance during the last few weeks the WGBH broadcast the highlights from:

Ambronay Festival
Rockport Chamber Music Festival
Yellow Barn Music Festival
The Newport Music Festival
Warsaw International Piano Festival
Aspen Music Festival
Rockport Chamber Music Festival
Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival
Prague Autumn Festival
Lugano Festival
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival
Kingston Chamber Music Festival
Montreal Chamber Music Festival
Boston Early Music Festival
Monadnock Music Festival
SoHIP Summer Festival
Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival

BTW, today in UK the Proms Festival is opening:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2008/whatson/season/

The FM will  not be syndicated in US as far as I know, and usually Proms do not have too refine artistic quality but they do live web podcast and it will be a wonderful in-office listening.

So, I perfectly can see an extremely elaborate and highly capable audio installation that uses only an FM tuner as audio source. At least if I start from scratch then I would most likely go for this direction.

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