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CIMX 88.7 sounds like crap

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CIMX 88.7 sounds like crap

Post by MWmetalhead » Thu Oct 28, 2021 6:50 pm

Audio levels have been so damn low for the past couple weeks that one needs to turn the volume knob much farther to the right just to get the audio to suitable levels.

No one at Ouelette Dr. in Windsor really cares how shitty their station sounds, do they?

95.9 in Windsor is a vastly superior station.



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Re: CIMX 88.7 sounds like crap

Post by Deleted User 15688 » Thu Oct 28, 2021 7:12 pm

I totally agree that 95.9 is a much better station. Both in sound quality and music programming, Blackburn is consistent in programming their stations.



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Re: CIMX 88.7 sounds like crap

Post by Mega Hertz » Thu Oct 28, 2021 9:55 pm

It's sounded like crap since November 20 of last year.

Oh... You're talking about the audio settings. Got it.


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Re: CIMX 88.7 sounds like crap

Post by MWmetalhead » Fri Oct 29, 2021 7:17 am

I don't miss 89X that much.

The constant technical issues, overplaying of stiffs, lack of library, lack of listener events, and generally terrible DJ lineup made for a pretty crappy station.

Engineering quality control in that building has got to be next to non-existent.



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Re: CIMX 88.7 sounds like crap

Post by audiophile » Fri Oct 29, 2021 8:07 am

MWmetalhead wrote:
Fri Oct 29, 2021 7:17 am
I don't miss 89X that much.

The constant technical issues, overplaying of stiffs, lack of library, lack of listener events, and generally terrible DJ lineup made for a pretty crappy station.

Engineering quality control in that building has got to be next to non-existent.
Have you heard any signal bleed onto other stations?


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Post by Deleted User 15688 » Fri Oct 29, 2021 9:32 am

Bell Media has always neglected their Windsor stations. Their television station is just as bad on the technical end. It’s like the Windsor market is the red-headed stepchild of company.



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Re: CIMX 88.7 sounds like crap

Post by Mega Hertz » Fri Oct 29, 2021 7:05 pm

I swung by while scanning earlier. No doubt, maximum volume (38) still sounds like another station's 24 or 25. It's almost like everything isn't potted up all the way.

Not like it's anything worth turning up anyway.

Even 88.1 in Canton sounds much, much better. Way to go, Bell...Plymouth/Canton schools runs a station better than you!


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Re: CIMX 88.7 sounds like crap

Post by MWmetalhead » Sat Oct 30, 2021 7:22 am

It's almost like everything isn't potted up all the way.
That's a very good way of describing it. Either their equipment is garbage, or they have some very apathetic employees.
Have you heard any signal bleed onto other stations?
Nope.



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Re: CIMX 88.7 sounds like crap

Post by Silvio Dante » Sun Oct 31, 2021 12:10 pm

Is there anyone left in that building on Oulette? The end of every fiscal quarter has brought new firings and "retirements" for years.May not be anyone left.



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Re: CIMX 88.7 sounds like crap

Post by Mega Hertz » Sun Oct 31, 2021 1:29 pm

MWmetalhead wrote:
Fri Oct 29, 2021 7:17 am
I don't miss 89X that much.

The constant technical issues, overplaying of stiffs, lack of library, lack of listener events, and generally terrible DJ lineup made for a pretty crappy station.

Engineering quality control in that building has got to be next to non-existent.
Fair point. I don't miss 89x from 2013 forward. I couldn't tell you what they were playing. That Pop Evil shit? No, what I miss on both 89x and 93.9 were the gold cuts. Thank God WRIF has started playing more stuff that 89x played that they wouldn't touch for years. Perhaps some more gold from the 00s beyond Linkin Park would be cool, too. I still dug 89x up until Dave and Chuck left. After that? Pfffffffff.


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Re: CIMX 88.7 sounds like crap

Post by MWmetalhead » Sat Nov 06, 2021 8:17 am

Within the past couple days, CIMX's audio woes have been fixed.

Not only is the audio now at appropriate loudness, but the processing sounds great, too!

As an added bonus, the signal strength also seems back to normal indoors (which in my neck of the woods, isn't great). I can get a clear signal on the Sony clock radio and an OK signal - with some effort - on the living room receiver.

Of course, this is Bell Media we're talking about, so it wouldn't surprise me if either the processing, the signal, or both go back into the crapper within the next 45 days. :lol



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Re: CIMX 88.7 sounds like crap

Post by Mega Hertz » Sat Nov 06, 2021 9:07 am

My curiosity gets the better of me.

Are there other border stations near larger markets (hell, even smaller markets) that 100% do not give a single flying fuck about the American side as much CIMX and CIDR don't? Especially like they used to?


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Re: CIMX 88.7 sounds like crap

Post by MWmetalhead » Sat Nov 06, 2021 9:17 am

Several such stations in St. Catharines & Niagara Falls, ON exist that deliver pretty good signals into Buffalo.

Of course, Buffalo is not nearly as large of a market as Detroit.

There are also stations in Tijuana, Mexico, that understandably, spend minimal energy on reaching San Diego, CA listeners. Tijuana's metro area has about 2.2 million residents. San Diego's metro area has about 3.2 million residents.

There may be Soo, Michigan stations that don't actively sell advertising to Soo, Ontario businesses or don't offer contest participation to Canadian listeners; I don't know.

The bizarre saga of 105.7 in Tijuana, Mexico, which was once a popular English-language Classic Hits station called 105.7 The Walrus, might be of interest to you. Once upon a time, that station grabbed a 3.5 to 4 share in the San Diego market. The LMA later fell apart due to financial mismanagement by the operator, who also had an LMA in place at the time for Tijuana-based AM 1090.



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Re: CIMX 88.7 sounds like crap

Post by radio stain » Fri Nov 12, 2021 8:56 pm

I was gonna ask about their signal because when I was in Toledo in March their signal was really choppy compared to before.



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Re: CIMX 88.7 sounds like crap

Post by MWmetalhead » Fri Nov 12, 2021 9:23 pm

They do receive a lot of adjacent channel interference from 88.9 in the Bowling Green area. That station boosted power several years back.



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