"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article . com,
spiney writes
depends what u like. mpeg has variable bitrate coding, and other
"artifacts", whereas fm broadcasting uses heavy compression instead
(Optimod, last I heard). There's no such thing as "neutral sound
quality".


FM can and does use "Optimods" or more correctly multiband compression
but how that unit is set up and applied is another matter.

FM can sound as \\good\\ as CD if you want it too. I've been able to
demonstrate this with a Harris digital exciter and Audiolab tuner in a
direct off air comparison and only One person out of a group of Six
noticed any differences and these were on very long sustained low level
piano pieces.

And a piano is the easiest instrument to duplicate on an FM synthesiser so
its not that difficult to fool people even with recordings made in the 50's.
Why don't you try a violin, a harpsichord or human speech instead.


Very few people get to hear what FM can be capable of....
--
Tony Sayer

In article ,
Agamemnon writes

"tony sayer" wrote in message
...
In article . com,
spiney writes
depends what u like. mpeg has variable bitrate coding, and other
"artifacts", whereas fm broadcasting uses heavy compression instead
(Optimod, last I heard). There's no such thing as "neutral sound
quality".


FM can and does use "Optimods" or more correctly multiband compression
but how that unit is set up and applied is another matter.

FM can sound as \\good\\ as CD if you want it too. I've been able to
demonstrate this with a Harris digital exciter and Audiolab tuner in a
direct off air comparison and only One person out of a group of Six
noticed any differences and these were on very long sustained low level
piano pieces.

And a piano is the easiest instrument to duplicate on an FM synthesiser so
its not that difficult to fool people even with recordings made in the 50's.
Why don't you try a violin, a harpsichord or human speech instead.



We did!, in fact we tried most everything in Two CD collections:)

And as I've said only one of the Six thought he noticed any difference
the others didn't !.

He was a pianist though.....
--
Tony Sayer