Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Broadcast FM is crap!

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 02/19/2012 12:46 PM, Andrew Davis wrote:
> The is a lot of really cool reasons for the stereo to be the way it
> is, check out http://transmitters.tripod.com/stereo.htm  it's an
> amazing read.
>
> Also the problem of no stereo signal is probably with modern music,
> there is not much difference between L and R anymore, just a single
> channel of mass produced noise, so since the're subtractive, silence
> is broadcast on the L-R signal, not like days past when Pink Floyd
> would fly you though space on both channels!
Yes, I recognize that a lot of modern mixing leads to almost no stereo 
separation.
  But this is a classic rock station.  I would expect the really-old 
stuff (old Beetles, for
  example) to be mono, but stuff produced in the 1970s and 1980s you'd 
expect to
  have good stereo separation.

Ironically, the *advertisements* have better stereo than the music sources!!

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Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
http://www.sbrac.org