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Satellite & Retrograde
OK, OK, I'm behind the curve on a few things. Today I had the need to
rent a car, and it contained an XM-Sirius satellite radio. Once I got over the shock of hearing raw language and the pleasure of having many new selections, I was struck by the sound quality: It blows. It varies from stream to stream, from type to type (low quality for talk, higher for music) but overall, it's pleasing on the low end (but even AM has a decent low end on most car radios) but very lossy and phase-y on the high end. Yechh. It used to be that new audio technologies offered improvements in sound quality, but we are now in a phase where new technologies actually constitute retrograde, a reduction in sound quality. I-Pods and MP3s were a backward step in quality; Most internet audio sounds atrocious (and internet video is even worse - it will NEVER replace TV for quality, at this rate); now we have satellite radio, which offers more choice and less interference in return for noticeably reduced quality. It this what the future holds? |
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Flying V wrote:
Yup!! Consumers today care more about "convenience", than "quality." My kids taught me that lesson. And also--the power of marketing is hard to fight against. Keep telling young buyers that MP3 players are all you really need....and they'll buy them as fast as they can! It's not today, it's always been that way. It's the reason why cassettes won out over quarter-track consumer tape, and why quarter-track won out over half-track in the consumer market. It's the reason why styrene 45s exist at all. The market has ALWAYS gone for convenience over sound quality and I suspect it always will. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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The dynamic range of everything they carry is pretty
constricted, too, but they do that deliberately in order to make the data compression easier. Decreasing dynamic range does not make lossy compression easier, if the compression is done smartly. Doug McDonald |
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On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:13:32 -0500, Arny Krueger wrote
(in article ) : I've only heard XM for any significant duration. It was a road trip to and from NYC from Detroit. I drove a couple of ca. 6 hour shifts in a GMC Arcadia. The only way I can stand to listen to XM is to also be engaging in some fairly difficult driving or sleeping or reading. A driving rain storm provided that for the desired difficult driving on the way back. IOW, I can only enjoy listening to XM by not actually listening to it at all. I'm told that the implementation of it that I listened to was among the best around. It's digital. It must be better! -Ty Ford --Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWaPRHMGhGA |
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