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Default Store PA Backgd Music Adjustment

On Monday, June 22, 2015 at 4:16:55 PM UTC-4, geoff wrote:
On 22/06/2015 8:0.com wrote:
June 2015:


The music quality had been starting to sound like a slightly mistuned
slide rule FM radio, with static and some distortion creeping in. Strange,
for an IP based network music player.


Last week, it just cut out altogether, and a day later the network guys
came in to remedy it. My next day of work, music was back on.
Iwas able to access the closet again - a manager did not full shut
it after turning the music on for opening.


Now get this: the volume in the store was decent, but on the amp beneath
the network player, the AUX, BASS, and TREBLE were fully clockwise.
Guess this would prevent playing it too loud(!) But I backed off the tone
controls a bit, and all was normal again.


My question is: HOW could music fed digitally, via internet, sound like a
staticky FM stereo tuner?? Sounds like something at the receiving(dish?)
end - wherever that is.


All of our stores in this district are fed the same music and POS(point of
sale) jingles source.




Not necessarily anything to do with the feed. Probably the device
playing the stream (underpowered or otherwise stuffed-up computer ?),
or and audio problem in the amp itself.

geoff




The device playing the music stream looks like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ic_player..jpg but without dorky antenna on top(!)

It is plugged into similar: http://store.acradiosupplyinc.com/im...ail/PVL15A.jpg which feeds ceiling speakers.

The receiver was installed about two months ago, and has always sounded like a poorly tuned FM station, fading in and out, french fry crackling. They fixed the fading in and out, but there is still some distortion.

And whoever re-configured it last week set it up so that "Aux(music level)", Bass & Treble were cranked all the way up. They must have turned down the output from the streamer to an agreeable store volume, with the amp knobs cranked. Still, it sounds crummy with the bass & treble cranked, even on little speakers.

So I know the amp is not being overloaded in anyway. This sounds like a FM reception issue somewhere in the chain - probably fed from a satellite to a dish at headquarters, then IP'd out to all the stores in the region, static and all.