IMPROPER AUDIO COMPRESSION, used in several radio shows, (talk radio).
Hi, there are a couple radio shows, (mostly streaming now) that serve the trucking industry crowd, often in late night hours. My peeve, ultimately, is that (the producers) don't consider or use 'self awareness', of recurrent audio problems.
Seems like, some type of AUDIO COMPRESSION used will have a sort-of 'pre-muting', where the volume is cut,(drastically), until the person has begun talking. This means an effect where a listener has loss of maybe a portion of a word or two, while the audio volume comes up to normal.
It's similar to when a person speaking keeps turning head away from the microphone. I've included in text, here, approximating what I mean by drop-outs:
(Lower case text, to illustrate low volume or indistinguishable.)
" this senTENCE, YOU CAN HEAR..."
" but the beginING IS NOT CLEAR"
Something like that, but maybe one third of the sentences the show hosts are saying.
But the real question is why the show's engineers, etc. don't seem to notice this audio defect....