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« on: 22:49:12, 18-07-2007 »
It is good to have the interval talks back, albeit for only eight weeks.

I have noticed, especially on Saturday 14th and today (18th July) that the audio quality (on VHF-FM) seems to be significantly inferior to that from the RAH. It has a sound akin to a low bit-rate podcast. On closer listening to a recording, I even heard MP3-like artefacts in it. To be certain, I sampled a short period of speech in the RAH and a similar length in the interval talks on the two dates, and fed the samples through a spectrum analyser. My ears were right: the RAH speech was about 70dB down at about 15kHz (the normal bandwidth for VHF-FM), whereas the interval talk on both occasions was about 70dB down at about 8kHz!

Why is an organisation which once prided itself on its audio quality now broadcasting such poor quality sound?
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« Reply #1 on: 23:12:16, 18-07-2007 »
Because it now considers audio quality irrelevant? The DAB bitrate fiasco last year is surely proof enough that the remit for R3 simply to punt out the stuff as cheaply as possible.
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« Reply #2 on: 12:54:31, 23-07-2007 »
The audio quality of R3 altogether has been awful lately.  They had to change studios yesterday morning in the middle of the programme because there were difficulties.  The sound kept cutting out altogether.

It seems better today - but why on earth with all the money at the disposal of the BBC don't they increase the R3 budget?  It's very small compared to what they spent elsewhere I believe.
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