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Spent the better part of an hour trying to find an encoder to produce mp2's. I did the 48khz, 80kbps, mono, yup, sounds exactly like what I heard on the Sears dish demo of the mono channels. Quite poor audio quality, but suitable for background music. It sounded exactly like muzak!

Yeah that's what it sounds like, a 56kbps mp3 in mono. The difference was pretty obvious when switching between the low bitrate mono channels and the higher bitrate stereo channels in Sears. The artifacts were annoying, like an artificial "squeal" at certain high frequencies in songs. The odd...

So the mono channels are at quite a low bitrate. That would explain why I heard so many artifacts, whereas the "CD" stereo channels sound very good. I'd really like to hear some samples of this on my own "equipment". Is there anyway someone can record samples and I can download them? Am still...

Heard it finally on a Dish network demo at a local Sears store. The mono channels sound awful. It's not just that they are in mono. The audio compression is heavy, worse than an FM station. It's mainly the DIGITAL compression, sounds like 64kbps mp3. I know it is an MPEG-2 something they use...

Even those big uplink dishes? Must've been quite a storm. We've had severe wx move over Cablevision's array in Bethpage and I didn't see any signal loss. The only time I remember signal loss due to a storm was when a severe storm moved over Music Choice's uplink (in PA I think) and we lost all...

You mean DISH doesn't have backup generators? You know I am amazed at how many major facilities that should have back up generators dont. I think even sirius has generators, because they didn't go out during the 2003 blackout.

Well I guess there goes any plans for investing in an FTA system for the muzak, as there will be changes. I have not really heard much of muzak's programming on their other channels, I am only familiar with FM1 with is played in most retail establishments around here. I love the variety that...