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   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:44:41 -0400, micky   
    wrote:   
      
   >Does anyone sell an add-on AVC or AGC, automatic volume control that can   
   >be used with an existing one-piece radio?   
      
   The original post here was about radios, but I checked my computer.  On   
   the desktop computer, I'd bought an add-in sound card.  I can't remember   
   why I was unsatisfied with the built-in sound.   
      
   But I have a SoundBlaster Audigy FX.  The card was a few years old when   
   I bought it, so there is probably newer, as well as competing brands.   
   I'm sure many, most, or all have audio compression in their software.   
      
   For this card, if one installs the included software (installation was   
   not needed for the card to work), it has a Smart Volume option, which is   
   sound compression.  It has 3 options, Loud (which is no compression,   
   maxiumum loudness), Normal (which has a slide bar and gives a wide range   
   of compression, from 0 to 100% whatever that means), and Night, which   
   has no slide bar and lowers volume even more for listening "at night"   
   and probably in bed.   
      
   Compression refers to compressing the range of volume, not to   
   compressing data, but I don't know details.   
      
   I had this option entirely off (the default) and didn't notice a problem   
   from the station I normally play on the PC and then broadcast on FM to   
   my bedroom radio.   But it's on Normal now.  No change noted, but if I   
   were to switch to CNN sound only, which uses iHeart or Tunenin, it would   
   probably be a big advantage.   
      
   I looked at all this card's options when I got it, didn't think I needed   
   Smnart Volume, but then forgot that I had it.   
      
      
      
      
   >I bought an internet radio and in some of the stations, the commercials   
   >are so loud they wake me up if I've fallen asleep, or near sleep, and if   
   >I turn down the volume, I can't hear the program.  I listen to talk   
   >radio and in another channel, the host is loud enough but everyone else   
   >is much quieter, and sometimes the host gets closer to the microphone   
   >and it's too loud again.   
   >   
   >I'd like to cut the wire to the speakers, which are built into the   
   >radio's cabinet, and insert a device or circuit that will act as an AVC.   
   >Any suggestions?   
   >   
   >I presume that if I bought a different internet radio I'd have the same   
   >problem, or is it possible the AVC in this one is broken?   
   >   
   >P.S. googling found this, Add-on: AGC and Speech Enhancement   
   >https://www.totalrecorder.com/AddOnAGC.htm , which sounds perfect, but   
   >it's software, and I need hardware.   
      
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