CNBC Sound Quality

Does anyone know why the sound on CNBC is so utterly awful on Sky?

It’s fairly unlikely that Late Night with Seth Meyers is recorded down a phone line and it seems incredible that a major TV company can’t get their sound right.

I’m not expecting Dolby 5.1 or anything fancy, just bog standard stereo television shouldn’t be challenging in 2023.

Gerry Wicklow

Both SD and HD versions sounds OK on my FTA box.

greasepalm

SD is okay on my Zgemma H7S

Just sounds extremely tiny and poor quality on Sky Q. No issues with any other channels, well except some of the random obscure ones with awful production quality.

Atlantic Dawn

I've never seen an issue with the HD version during the day with sound or picture, wouldn't typically watch it at night.

Charles Slane

I sometimes watch Seth Meyers on CNBC HD on my ZGemma H7S and I've also noticed that the sound quality has deteriorated recently. I thought it might have just been something wrong at my end, so it's reassuring to see that others have noticed it too. So it seems that it's not just limited to Sky boxes.

There's definitely distortion. I wonder if it's just affecting programmes sourced from the US.

icdg

I suppose a lot of CNBC’s target audience watch it at work with the sound off? Might be why issues may go unnoticed. The picture quality has never been the best although not as bad as it was (particularly during US business day programmes) twenty years ago.

greasepalm

Try changing/swapping Hdmi cable when units powered off.

Whats your signal levels like on that channel.

The signal is fine. It's not glitching or anything like that. It's just poorer quality sound - flat and over compressed.

greasepalm

Did you try doing a manual scan on that frequency and see if it changes

The Cush

CNBC has a slightly lower audio bitrate than the other channels on its transponder 256 vs 384 kbps, not sure if that makes a big difference.

My ears must be sensitive, but it sounds flat and compressed to me.