[BC] Religious radio

[Lewis Munn]

Karen, Glen,
   
  There IS religious radio that sounds good...because they have spent some money on engineering and quality equipment.  There is a lot that sounds bad because they get some TV repairman to engineer cheap, and to save money they buy low-end consumer equipment and wire it all single-ended high impedance. 
   
  I incurred the wrath of a manager when I showed how they could have a professional quality digital editor by taking demo equipment, as opposed to an engineer of unknown qualifications who told them buying cheaper consumer equipment and running high impedance wiring was the way to go.  You had more pieces, and it did almost as much as the broadcast-grade editor did.
   
  Getting more pieces is tangible...must be a better deal...than having high quality and doing more things.
   
  In this case, too, the manager did not have any concept of audio quality.  Listened on cheap radios to overprocessed wrack and ruin music at high volume.  Didn't sound right unless it was heavily distorted.
   
  I do not say this is unique to Religious radio, but the tendency to skimp on engineering quality seems greater in the general religious radio.  Engineering is a drain on resources that can be better put to use elsewhere.

Looey Munn
  Roundup, MT
  Karen commented:

>For too long, religious radio has been second rate. There is no excuse, 
with the resources and talent that are available, to offer programming that is 
anything other than excellent.

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Yup, I've been saying as mush since 1968. Why should the stations working for the almighty dollar sound better than the ones working for the Almighty God? 
		
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