Muffled/"Mushy" Sound

May 07, 2010 7 Replies
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Watching an "old" movie (1975, "Capone" :-) via cable



The sound was muffled/"mushy"... hard to understand.



Other sources are fine.



What is "mushy" sound? Hum mixed in? Distortion? What is it?



Can it be processed to clean it up? ...Jim Thompson



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"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

It requires dumping cable and going to FIOS. ;D

Cheers

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"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

I saw Capone on cable recently, too. It sounded crystal clear. Of course, I'm at least a decade younger than you are.

Bob

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Aha! A "decadent" problem :-) ...Jim Thompson

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If the two of you were watching the same movie, odds are that someone at Thompson's CATV company screwed up the audio between the program source and the distribution system.

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I bet one print (with the mushy sound) had an optical sound track and the other print had a mag stripe on the edge for the audio. The specs for mag tape are well known, and regular old 16bit 44khz CDs sound a lot better, I think the optical track has worse signal to noise ratio than the mag tape. Every spec of dust is a click or pop just like a record.

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you mean other than an audiophool term?

frequency spread? some frequencies heavily attenuated? reverb?

as much of the distortion as can be characterised without a random term or a zero term can probably be reversed

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"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Try this (needs

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Both show that they have a few seeders at present.

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