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In the Forum: Off Air Audio
In the Thread: The new FM Classical scene in Boston

Post Subject: A sad end of the Rohde & Schwarz era.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/5/2014

During the last 2 years I am slowly trying to reevaluate my relationship with FM in Boston. The two major FM stations WCRB and WHRB are getting worse very rapidly sound wise.

The WHRB is wonderfully station with very stimulating host and good programming but the guy who runs the show has horrible listening culture hygiene. As the result the some of the most interesting live-to tape programs they broadcast are getting worse and worse from sonic perspective. The last even I was listening and records I was abandoned in the middle of first movement as it was juts horrendous sound, literally you can get better at 64kbit MP3. It is very sad but I do not feel that any of the WHRB broadcasts; regardless their musical values are worth to keep sonicly.

The WCRB is commercial station that has been running to ground buy corporate idiots. The times what I was able to call to the recording and broadcast engineers, to uphold the fragments and to tale about sound are long gone. There is no people in there anymore who care about sound in any form and shape and nowadays life BSO and other life broadcast are Hadley listenable, not to mention recordable.

Well, in this situation I found myself with a great antenna, two great tuners, two great AD converter but staggering to have any material on the air worthy to be recorded. So, after some consideration I decided to let my beloved Rohde & Schwarz and probably one of A/D to go as they truly do not see a lot of services that they deserve to have. It is sad that we in Boston have no longer FM sound that can go justness to this beautiful tuner. I have spent so much love and attention to get the beat from FM and it looks now that FM have betrays me… Oh, well…. We'll Always Have Paris…

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