A few classical and jazz stations still have decent quality. Eg QXR in New York or FMT in Chicago for classical or BGO in newark, nj. They present live music occaisionally and the improved quality surprised me, an indication of the quality loss in recording to medium such as CDs. I dont know if it is compression, or poor quality recording. Some of the best sound I get is from SACDs made from 1950's and 60's analog masrers and from CDs that are upsampled 64 or 128 times befrore conversion to analog. So i suspect the weak link is the resistor ladder rack used in most CD players. Robert Harley explains this issue well in his book.
I have an upper end Sony tuner from 1985 and it is more sensitive and has better sound than current $1000 tuners from the higher manufacturers of today such as magnum dynalab. Another surprise!
I have an upper end Sony tuner from 1985 and it is more sensitive and has better sound than current $1000 tuners from the higher manufacturers of today such as magnum dynalab. Another surprise!