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Lamp
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Quote Lamp Replybullet Topic: Status quo
    Posted: 10 February 2007 at 1:57pm
Hi folks,

I have decided to study german, and, guess what, to my luck, I found this site Big%20smile.

I have however a question, which came into me when I checked the status, where reads "Need better audio for volume I": Is this impeditive in anyway? or is it just some annoying noises here and there?

I thank ye in advance.
Lamp

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Quote Chung Replybullet Posted: 10 February 2007 at 6:11pm
The audio for volume 1 is of poor quality because the master tapes from NTIS (government distributor) were pretty poor to begin with. Certain sections in Vol. 1 sound unclear or muffled and that can interfere with your studying.
 
Sir Nigel and gdfellows tried hard to get around these problems by adjusting the settings on the recording software, but it didn't work out, so what you get here is straight from NTIS, warts and all.
 
Apparently Barron's "Mastering German" (a rip-off of the original FSI materials) has much clearer audio, but alas Barron's stuff is under copyright protection and ineligible for posting here.
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Quote andy_cog Replybullet Posted: 07 June 2007 at 7:30pm
I am currently in the process of cleaning the noise out of the recording of Vol.  1.  It will be encoded in VBR wma.  I am willing to send it in; would this be helpful?
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Quote seyal Replybullet Posted: 10 June 2008 at 6:59pm
I'm not the topic creator, but I think it would be helpful for me. :)


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