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Re: 90s shows in poor sound

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James R CurryJan 22, 2013
 

 
This is an interesting discussion.  My theory, with only anecdotal evidence to support it, is that these shows have been rerun less frequently.

JAM reruns seem to fall into two categories, at least when I've listened to them: Classic era shows (The gang of four at their height) and modern era (Paul as a regular with Clement as a frequent guest).  The gang-of-three plus Paul era, approximately 1989 when Kenneth died until 2000 when Peter died, seems (to me) to get less play.  Perhaps that's because at the time, listening to the show, the lack of Kenneth Williams is notable?

Just my uneducated guess.

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Espen Krømke <espen.kromke@...> wrote:

You may be onto something - but why are then the 80s  and even 70s shows (often) in a better quality? Where they digitized from tape at a later stage than the 90s recordings?
Cause back in the 90s they must have still done the actual recording on tape - if I remember correctly there was no online streaming of radio back then - we did not have such a bandwidth. Ergo, the source of the 90s show should logically be the same as the older shows - so why are then the 90s shows this bad in comparison?

I don't feel we've cracked this mystery just yet!




Den 21. jan. 2013 20:35, skrev InnerRevolution7:

 

I know the answer!!! (raises hand) Ok, its a crap guess....

I think it MAY be because the 90's is when people first started turning audio into MP3, and in the early days of doing that, some horrible errors were made in making small files, as people had tiny hard drives and were sharing with dial up. These days we can make reasonably small files that don't sound quite that bad. But some of those early MP3s are really horrendous. That might be why you see a quality dip in the 90's as things moved from audio tape to early MP3s.

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