[cma-l] AM for CR

[Eryl Price-Davies]

Quote:
"On a pragmatic note, an illicit love affair with AM holds us back. An
intransigence to sacrifice digital bit rate to introduce more variety and
choice of services holds us back. We need to move forward and that
sometimes means taking a leap of faith. Embracing the less certain. "

Not so. Naive faith in more meaning better....that's the most bizarre
leap of faith ever! Of course people like me don't seriously expect a mass
return to AM, but neither are we (or maybe it's just me?) convinced that
digital providers offer the only 'way forward'. Embracing the less
certain...seriously? Sounds like psycho babble masquerading as management
b******s!

Fuzzy warm hum.

Eryl

On Thursday, 18 February 2016, Alex Gray, Two Lochs Radio <
tlr at gairloch.co.uk> wrote:

> Sure enough, it’ quite funny, but I don’t see a big contradiction.
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> The public was sold DAB initially on a promise of “CD quality sound”
> (which of course was an unpunished act of wilful misrepresentation), and it
> is still sold on a promise of freedom from hissing, fading, crackling and
> other interference,  so it’s fair to assume that a good proportion of those
> buying DAB radios are factoring in expectations of high-quality
> interference-free sounds, and will rightly be satisfied by 80kbps mono MP2.
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> And it’s also apparent that there are quite a few people who have a
> nostalgic affection for AM sound ‘quality’, and even some for whom it
> actually provides the best reception option away from mainstream VHF
> coverage. Unfortunately, no broadcaster is going to be too keen to keep
> shelling out for expensive maintenance and electricity to keep such systems
> going for the few in return for no extra income. (In contrast to what has
> happened with the huge revival in vinyl records, where there is money to be
> made.)
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> It does occur to me thought that with the increased capacity on a national
> DAB+ multiplex, if there is unsold space maybe there is scope for an oldies
> station to provide an alternative service that has a simulcast of its main
> programme reprocessed into lo-fi AM soundalike, complete with 4.5kHz
> roll-off, fading and phasing, interference at night….
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> Alex
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> It's funny really because, here we have expressions of a romantic
> attachment to crackly AM. Yet elsewhere I hear an indictment of DAB
> multiplex operators who broadcast music stations at 80kbps mono. There's a
> strange, contradictory and unsatisfiable constituency out there.
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> On a pragmatic note, an illicit love affair with AM holds us back. An
> intransigence to sacrifice digital bit rate to introduce more variety and
> choice of services holds us back. We need to move forward and that
> sometimes means taking a leap of faith. Embracing the less certain.
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> The future of radio lies not in the past but in the road ahead.
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> David
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> www.theradiopeople.co.uk
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> On 17 Feb 2016, at 12:04, Canalside's The Thread <office at thethread.org.uk
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> Another good point                    Radio Luxembourg 208 metres in 1975
> when I was 16, under my bed sheets on a cold winters night listening to Bob
> Stewart playing Ms Grace by the Tymes        oh the memories
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> Wrighty
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