There is just something about the radio....

[LouSiffer]

My truck consists of a JVC 7" touchscreen with Nav, DVD/CD iPod cord, USB/HDD support then it is fed out to an Infinity Kappa 5.1 amp and then into Infinit Kappa componant speakers and an Infinity Kappa 10" sub. It sounds fucking awesome!!

I use my iPod mostly, but, I also throw FLAC onto a drive and listen to that as well as some CD's just because I have hundreds of them in my closet.

Leaving the .mp3 out of the equation and focusing on solely the FLAC and original CD's, they sound amazing. There are no words to describe how good this system sounds. You can hear every little nuance in a song. Throw in Appetite and you here all kinds of weird shit.

I noticed something the other day though. As good as this music sounds on media......it sounds even better over the radio when you have a clean channel. I don't know if it is in their EQ.....or their equipment.....or what.

Example: I was listening to Def Leppard's " Rocket " on the original Hysteria CD..... when it was over, I bounced over to the radio and it was playing there, too. It sounded better. It was like the broadcast gave it a different color or an aura. Maybe it was just the magic of being broadcast through the air and thus, gave the rock gods time to put their mojo on it.

I do know that sometimes the radio discs are EQ'd slightly different ( VH Tatto being a good example ), but, it just seems more than that.


Anyone else notice this or is it just me?-Lou

[tomanyjacksons]

I used to run nothing but a system in every car I bought I had a pioneer indash CD player with a set of speakers in the front and rear deck and a bandpass box with 2 12's and amps for all six speakers. It was in 6 different cars. I had to run different eq's for cd's and the radio. It was a major difference. I now drive a Honda Accord with a completely stock radio with a 6 disk changer in the trunk with no real difference in the sound. It doesn't even compare to the sound quality I had with my old setup. I'm getting older and switching the stuff out just seemed like a hassle. I live less then a mile from where I work, so it seemed pointless, so what's left of my old setup is still in my Mustang setting at a friend's place waiting for me to rebuild it. Plus the Honda stereo isn't all that bad and the body doesn't rattle every time the bass hits. LOL

[len]

Radio stations tailor their own sound via processing and manipulation. They use multi-band compressors, eqs and sometimes stereoizers.
That being said,the sound of a radio station is only as good as the staff engineer who selects, sets up and runs the gear.

[atomic charvel guy]

the radio is still magic, but so rarely. they play the same 3 zeppelin
tunes over and over for decades now when there's hundreds of them to play.