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What actually extremely pissed me off was the David Eliot’s attitude that we the listeners are not the owners of our own listening experiences but some kind of hostages of FM station’s wishes.  Years back I was under impression that he is just an ignorant person in the subjects of audio. He is a magnificent musical host; in fact I adore his presentation s. WHRB is voluntary organization that do not have a whole a lot of recourses. Here is a fragment from David Eliot’s email a few month back:

“If you have specific observations about the sound quality of the Met, we invite you to send us details, giving the specific opera transmission or transmissions when you have heard problems, describing as completely as possible what you heard and how it differed from transmissions of three or four years ago.  We will be happy to include your observations in our discussions with the Met's technical staff.

So, please, for now and in the future, do not impute to WHRB a "gross disrespect."  The station, it is true, has neither the resources nor the large professional staff of other stations, but our all-volunteer, mostly undergraduate staff works hard to deal with many more problems in running a radio station than you can begin to imagine.  Most listeners are grateful for our extraordinary content and are forgiving of the occasional problems that they become aware of.  We hope you can be convinced to join them in that and to enjoy the best of our offerings without denigrating our motivation or assuming that all problems are of our creation or under our control.”

Sounds reasonable, right? It is a great façade but there is a truth behind it. The sad truth is that David Eliot, for whatever reason is driven him, is lying. Today he told me that among a thousand listeners he has no one ever complained about the quality of MET broadcasts via WHRB. It is BS as I person know of 6 people who told me that they complained to WHRB. A few months back I was complaining about noise to WHRB and Davis asked me why no one else ever acknowledges the noise? Good question that openly challenge my sanity. A few hours after this I spoke with Clark Johnson who told me that juts a day before he had a prolong discussion- complain with WHRB juts because the horrible quality of sound and noise.  So, behind his gentile personals of David Eliot there is apparently a quite sinister and creepy attitude.

It is very sad as it is absolutely not warranted as the only thing that we the listeners wish is to get what already there: the WHRB programming in a stable good quality. I do not think that this wish of ours is very much against of what David would like to have and therefore there is no need for dishonesty, self-delusion or any other crap that David choose to employ. If a listener bothers itself to call to a station and to report a specific sonic problem then it not because a listener has nothing else to do and is looking for a “telephone entertament”.  I have no idea what his stupid reaction comes from. In my business if somebody would perform an accurate QA of the quality of work then I would pay for service instead of getting angry… It is of course if I care about my work…

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