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"David Eduardo" wrote:

"Telamon" wrote in message
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Tom wrote:

On Oct 19, 2:17 am, Telamon
wrote:
Look, I understand that there are limiter and processors but I just
can't believe most stations compress music into a 6 dB range. That's
just not right.


You're both right: FM system dynamic range may be on the order of 70
dB while the occupied dynamic range may be the top 6 dB for 95% of the
time on many stations. The dynamic range between a comfortable
loudness and ambient noise may be as much as 30-35 dB in the average
home or as little as 10-20 dB in an automobile. Stations that process
for the ideal home listening environment will have frustrated
listeners in the car if they carry wide dynamic range content such as
classical music and vice versa.

That's not what he meant Tom. Eduardo thinks that is the entire dynamic
range is 6 dB.

Tom is clairying that the dynamic range of the FM system vs. the dynamic
range of the program content broadcasters put into the system.

As Tom says, about 95% of the time the material on air is somewhere in the
vicinity of a 6 db dynamic range.

Good thing he clarified that for you. You were looking pretty stupid.

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Telamon
Ventura, California