Quote:<div><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"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. "</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">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!</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">Fuzzy warm hum.</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">Eryl<br></span></font><br>On Thursday, 18 February 2016, Alex Gray, Two Lochs Radio <<a href="mailto:tlr@gairloch.co.uk">tlr@gairloch.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="blue"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Sure enough, it’ quite funny, but I don’t see a big contradiction.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">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.)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">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….<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1f497d">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Alex<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk');" target="_blank">cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk');" target="_blank">cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Duffy<br><b>Sent:</b> 17 February 2016 23:39<br><b>To:</b> The Community Media Association Discussion List <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk');" target="_blank">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cma-l] AM for CR<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The future of radio lies not in the past but in the road ahead.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">David<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.theradiopeople.co.uk" target="_blank">www.theradiopeople.co.uk</a> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>On 17 Feb 2016, at 12:04, Canalside's The Thread <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','office@thethread.org.uk');" target="_blank">office@thethread.org.uk</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Wrighty</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div>
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