clwill
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Yes, another b**ch thread. But has anyone in charge at NHRA ever listened to the audiocast? It is hard to imagine sound quality any worse than that.
It's not just that it's so badly compressed that it sounds like someone has simply placed a phone next to a speaker. But the gain is so high that every single sound hits the limiter and blasts into a distortion-filled blur. Add in the ridiculous mix of hard rock filler that is too loud and drowns out the announcers and it's virtually unlistenable. Every race day my wife leaves the house because she can't stand the "screeching".
Yes I know race tracks are temporary venues and setting up that service has to be hard. And yes this is another whine from the cheap seats. But it's 2012 and thousands of teens broadcast cd-quality Internet radio from their parents' basements. There has to be a better way.
It seems to me that if the audiocast is worth doing, it's worth doing right. I look forward to it every race day, and every race day I find myself thinking "really, professionals broadcast this?" Someone at NHRA should spend a little time listening from the other end and trying to make it listenable.
It's not just that it's so badly compressed that it sounds like someone has simply placed a phone next to a speaker. But the gain is so high that every single sound hits the limiter and blasts into a distortion-filled blur. Add in the ridiculous mix of hard rock filler that is too loud and drowns out the announcers and it's virtually unlistenable. Every race day my wife leaves the house because she can't stand the "screeching".
Yes I know race tracks are temporary venues and setting up that service has to be hard. And yes this is another whine from the cheap seats. But it's 2012 and thousands of teens broadcast cd-quality Internet radio from their parents' basements. There has to be a better way.
It seems to me that if the audiocast is worth doing, it's worth doing right. I look forward to it every race day, and every race day I find myself thinking "really, professionals broadcast this?" Someone at NHRA should spend a little time listening from the other end and trying to make it listenable.
