{"id":106,"date":"2013-05-21T23:36:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T07:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/?p=106"},"modified":"2013-05-21T23:36:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T07:36:42","slug":"slightly-less-gloomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/2013\/05\/21\/slightly-less-gloomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Slightly Less Gloomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears KZOK finally repaired whatever was causing the horrid audio, now it&#8217;s just back to the normal clipped and overly compressed audio those of us who live in the Seattle market are used to.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never really understood what it is with this region of the country, the obsession with being &#8220;loud&#8221; is extreme.\u00a0 I understand the need on AM where the signal to noise ratio is bad unless you live next to the antenna, but on FM it makes no sense.<\/p>\n<p>One notable exception is KMCQ, 104.5, one of the few stations in the Seattle market that isn&#8217;t badly clipped.\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice to hear percussion instruments actually sound like the instrument instead of gated white noise.\u00a0 Kudos&#8230;\u00a0 I&#8217;m not real fond of the format, not that I have anything against oldies, but I don&#8217;t really care for the sedate, and I don&#8217;t like automation and the total lack of audience interaction, that&#8217;s just me, but I do appreciate good clean audio.<\/p>\n<p>Some day I have to string up a shortwave antenna and see if I can receive anything beside computer hash.\u00a0 The built-in antenna on my little SW receiver is completely useless in this house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears KZOK finally repaired whatever was causing the horrid audio, now it&#8217;s just back to the normal clipped and overly compressed audio those of us who live in the Seattle market are used to. I&#8217;ve never really understood what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/2013\/05\/21\/slightly-less-gloomy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}