It is shame that audio people mostly do not listen FM. If fact if I had a feeling that they do and if I know that they record live broadcasts then it might be possible to facilitate some kind of recording exchange service when “interesting” recordings of broadcast might circle among the participating parties…

Sure, we all have thousands recording of the greatest performance from past. I do not support the moronic believe of some people that great music is not being performed anymore: we juts do not hear to. Tuning to the live broadcast on FM (or perhaps in HD, but I know little about it) give a phenomenal opportunity to be exposed to very interesting, very educational and very mind-expending experiences... Frankly speaking, if I have a dozen participants in few main cultural center around the world, who record the local broadcast then I would grandly give up thousands of my records and CD because live FM delivers very different experience… Try to get it: it will be a new recording today, tomorrow, and then a day after and the next week… we juts do not need to accumulate recordings anymore (I practically stopped to buy CD/LP during the last year). We still could “buy” recordings but strictly for research purpose or to deepening our exposure to the things of interest….

Anyhow, I call anybody who might concern… let to swap. I have been doing rare swapping for years with “my people” but I would like to do it with excitedly FM “live” and “live-to-tape” broadcasts. In the “live” FM is where the Real music lives and… frankly speaking, “live” FM is much more interesting audio-wise… We have today in live broadcast of a memorial Leonard Bernstein concert from Cambridge. I would love to swap it to some kind of broadcast of memorial Toscanini concert off a local Rome FM station or a memorial Barbirolli concert off a local London FM station. Anyhow, if this idea gains some supporters then I would write a simple service to facilitate it.

Romy the Cat wrote:

You would not need any “special” A/D converters, as I did impose any demeaned to “quality”. All you that you need to have a more or less reasonable tuner, a good antenna, strong reception and an ability to write it up at 24/44 or 24/88/ Also it is necessary to have a good taste to recognize which broadcast was worthy… The Cay

Here we go. One more person got hooked on FM and “get” where the real high-end lives… If you live in Chicago then try to develop some connections and get assess to folks who have WFMT-FM sound-check tapes form the WFMT’ past. 20-35 years ago WFMT-FM had phenomenal broadcasts with stunning musical and sonic quality (I have some of them)..

Where to start with recording of FM Broadcasts? You would need a dedicated machine with recording software, a tuner, an antenna and A/D converter. I would not dive into desiccations what converted it might be (we could do it in audio forum) but the definition of success would be you playing your tuner direct to you amps should sound identical to you playing your tuner via A/D-D/A chain.

Interpreting, John. When you hook is up can you write up your observations about the sound of this thing, perhaps in a different thread.…  I might, in a few weeks, will be able to add quite a lot of new observations about the Sansui TU-X1. I also no nothing about the FM classical programs are in Japan. Generally Japan has very good reputation for preserving of classical programming. Their CDs are fantastic. Why should they do not do the same with FM….

Romy the Cat wrote:

Generally Japan has very good reputation for preserving of classical programming. Their CDs are fantastic. Why should they do not do the same with FM…. Rgs, The caT

Following my thoughts from here:

 http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=8358

I was wondering what kind copyright ramifications the idea of file swapping might have, particularly considering the negligible “scale of operation” and that no money involved.  If I record off air a broadcast then do I have rights to barter this recording to other broadcast?