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Newsgroups: net.audio
Title: dynamic range
Article-I.D.: we13.485
Posted: Wed May 11 15:44:51 1983
Received: Fri May 13 22:59:51 1983

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Date:Wed, 11-May-83 15:44:51 EDT


I agree with the comments that audio with a large dynamic range has no
place in a car. There are also times at home where one does not like
a wide dynamic range, such as background music when eating, playing
cards, etc...

I am a holdout in that I still prefer reel to reel for taping and the
only reason I have any cassette gear is to prepare tapes for the car.
When I make any cassette tapes, and occasionally reel to reel too,
I use a home made compression amplifier. This unit is strictly an
AGC system that treats the entire audio spectrum equally. Playing
tapes made this way does save a lot of reaching for the volume control
on the dash.

Most all broadcast stations use compression and all are required to
use peak limiters to prevent going over 100% modulation. My experience
is that only the better classical music FM stations have any dynamic
range to speak of.

What really irritates me is in my car stereo unit, the radio output
is so much greater than the tape output that when the tape ends
it just about tears the speaker cones.
                                                       Bob Roehrig
                                                       ...we13!rjr