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Re: 90s shows in poor sound

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InnerRevolution7Jan 22, 2013
 

 
I'll buy that. Good reasoning.

--- In just-a-minute@..., James R Curry wrote:
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> This is an interesting discussion. My theory, with only anecdotal evidence
> to support it, is that these shows have been rerun less frequently.
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> 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.
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> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Espen Krømke wrote:
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> > 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!
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> > Den 21. jan. 2013 20:35, skrev InnerRevolution7:
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> > I know the answer!!! (raises hand) Ok, its a crap guess....
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> > 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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> James R Curry
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