Great Video. I too thought that Magic's sound quality has changed sometime after moving to 1278KHz, I thought at first their techs were mucking about with compression to try and get a "louder" sound. This fiddling was immediately prior to their being sold to Fairfax. I had a lot of time for their station manager when they were owned by Souhern Cross, I think he really cared about their sound ( I do know he wanted AM stereo to be re-instated) but I suspect that money and politics won the day.
Was the 2006 audio captured from the AM signal? That 2006 audio sounds absolutely incredible... I thought AM couldn't sound so good, apart from AM Stereo?
Can't get decent 1278 reception, I always get noise from some other stations or whatever it is (I'm not Awful. Don't know what's better: the AM 1278 sound or their 16kbps wma stream.
Great Video. I too thought that Magic's sound quality has changed sometime after moving to 1278KHz, I thought at first their techs were mucking about with compression to try and get a "louder" sound. This fiddling was immediately prior to their being sold to Fairfax. I had a lot of time for their station manager when they were owned by Souhern Cross, I think he really cared about their sound ( I do know he wanted AM stereo to be re-instated) but I suspect that money and politics won the day.
TheExEngineer 11 months ago
@vk3ase I'll have to wait to get a digital radio to hear Magic in all its glory, eh?
AccordionManiac 1 year ago
Was the 2006 audio captured from the AM signal? That 2006 audio sounds absolutely incredible... I thought AM couldn't sound so good, apart from AM Stereo?
Can't get decent 1278 reception, I always get noise from some other stations or whatever it is (I'm not Awful. Don't know what's better: the AM 1278 sound or their 16kbps wma stream.
AccordionManiac 1 year ago
Recorded from an AWA AM 3 tuner. This is the way AM should sound.
vk3ase 1 year ago
No doubt that it's substandard now. I wonder what the deal is.
servros 1 year ago
Maybe they are trying to push people to DAB+
speer320 1 year ago