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Well, it is hard to express my excitement about what the new FM99.5 All-Classical is turning into. It looks like the programming is settling down and my concerns about to become too popular turn out to be wrong.   The programs are very good, the horst are not the CNN-type morons as they use to be at WCRB.

The new 99.5 still run some advertisement despite that they promise that it will be commercials-free. It does not bother me too much, in fact I kind of like the business that advertises in there and I do not mind to patronize them. Ironically, I do listen sometime the FM96.9 in my car and I very much consciousness that I under any circumstances will not approach any business that ever mentions in there. The very good part on the FM99.5 All-Classical is that they do not truncate or slice the musical pieces to inject commentary or adds. If they broadcast 5 movements symphony or 4 movements quarter then it will be all 5 movements without any interruption – the way how it shall be.

Reception: that sucks. I still do not have good reception from my location and I am fighting with it. I have order some external filters and will see what I can do with them.  I do have strong signal but I do have in the side-bad some noise in wide stereo. Not a lot but something that I would like do not have. I would like to experiment with lowering the IF bandwidth and to see how it go but my experimental DX tuner that can go to 150K window (Yamaha T85) not with me nowadays.  Probably I would try it coming days but I a fit concern that Sansui narrow band does not help.

The sound quality of the station is very-very-very good, way better then what WGBH use to be in their best moments.  Compression lo and I have ordinary 55dB of dymick range, it is a far cry from 15db of the former WCRB. What can I say, for the last week and a half I did not play nether CD or LP but just ran my tuner.  In fact I did not record too much ether. If we have the quality of programs and sound as we do now from FM99.5 All-Classical then who have time and need to listen recordings?

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