"Do you know, Master, that practically all t.v. viewers and radio listeners have noticed that the sound-quality, the 'understandability', always gets very good when a telephone conversation is relayed. After that (and prior to it) the reporter or newsreader becomes again well-nigh un-understandable. Everybody notices it yet nobody complains."
"Indeed, these stations always have well-paid, so-called sound technicians employed, yet, they cannot leave well alone. They could easely be done away with when all radio signals were first telephoned to some place and only then put on the broadcasting system. All sets that now have to be booming, and blasting away at full power, in order to get a little understandability, could then be turned down to room-, social-, practical level. These technicians because they are paid, want to make the sound 'better'(?), warmer, i.e. with more bass in it which is: ununderstandable, yet loud. As schoolboys they learned that understandability depends on high frequencies, un-understandability on the masking effect of low frequencies. Decor over usefulness, then, leads to cutting out the high frequencies, pumping up the lower ones. Is it too much to ask for that they should learn a bit about the unvoiced consonants and frequencies? People do not complain, why ...? They just turn-up the knob a bit, and to hell with the neighbours."