MASN & Sound

[nats13]

Just trying to find out if anyone has experienced sound problems with MASN's telecast?  It doesn't happen all the time but when it happens I cannot hear the commentators over the crowd, stadium announcers and music.  It was especially bad at the last Mets series at Shea.  I had my sound up to 60 out of 100 and I still could not hear Sutton & Carpenter over the rest of the noise from the stadium.  I have contacted MASN last year and this year whenever this occurs and they keep telling me it's my provider DirectTV and not them; DirectTV swears it's the broadcast from MASN.  Funny thing is whenever a commercial comes on it blasts me out of the chair it's so loud and I have no problem with sound on NatsXtra - ever.  Nor do I have problems with the sound on other stations like I have with MASN.  It's happened mostly at home games but the series at Shea was really horrible.  MASN assures me they have a TV on and someone watching it to make sure there are no problems.  Anybody else have any sound issues? 

[Dave B]

I had my sound up to 60 out of 100 and I still could not hear Sutton & Carpenter over the rest of the noise from the stadium. 

25 minutes have passed and nobody has replied with something to the effect of "and this is a bad thing?"

I think I've become immune to the crappiness of the MASN broadcast so anything short of a loss of video I do not notice

[MDoyle]

I remember there being a problem for the first few minutes on a HD broadcast where you couldn't hear them say anything.  That was the game after the crybaby mets pitcher called us softball girls, and the first pitch of the game hit Felipe. Other than that I don't remember anything like that.

[spidernat]

Consider yourself blessed. You don't have to hear Debbi Taylor's stupid interruptions. Some of the posters here purposely mute the sound when she speaks. I wish we could mute her face.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

I think that may have had to do with Shea rather than MASN...it's pretty hard to project over the constant roar of jet engines and the baying and howling of an angry mob. 

 

Just trying to find out if anyone has experienced sound problems with MASN's telecast?  It doesn't happen all the time but when it happens I cannot hear the commentators over the crowd, stadium announcers and music.  It was especially bad at the last Mets series at Shea.  I had my sound up to 60 out of 100 and I still could not hear Sutton & Carpenter over the rest of the noise from the stadium.  I have contacted MASN last year and this year whenever this occurs and they keep telling me it's my provider DirectTV and not them; DirectTV swears it's the broadcast from MASN.  Funny thing is whenever a commercial comes on it blasts me out of the chair it's so loud and I have no problem with sound on NatsXtra - ever.  Nor do I have problems with the sound on other stations like I have with MASN.  It's happened mostly at home games but the series at Shea was really horrible.  MASN assures me they have a TV on and someone watching it to make sure there are no problems.  Anybody else have any sound issues? 

[nats13]

points well taken.  I complained about Debbi Taylor and her "deer in the headlights" approach to reporting too (if you can really call it that).

[Steve Heezy]

another Debbi Taylor classic ... "its amazing that he was able to throw out the first pitch considering he was born without arms ... or hands"

[MDoyle]

another Debbi Taylor classic ... "its amazing that he was able to throw out the first pitch considering he was born without arms ... or hands"

I was doing laundry when she said that.  I couldn't believe what I had heard.

[Dave B]

another Debbi Taylor classic ... "its amazing that he was able to throw out the first pitch considering he was born without arms ... or hands"

hahahahahahahaha.....hahahahahahahahaha ha

[blue911]

another Debbi Taylor classic ... "its amazing that he was able to throw out the first pitch considering he was born without arms ... or hands"

Thalidomide baby. You have to wonder if how often they dropped Debbie Taylor on her head.

[spidernat]

MASN has the game scheduled for 10 pm tonight but the Nats website says game time is 9.40, I hope we don't miss any part of the game because of MASN's incompetence.

[thunderstrucknatsfan]

The fault for the low sound has to be MASN and not DirecTv.  I complained about it to them last year, when at one point  it was so low that it was almost inaudible.  It then improved slightly.  I have never had the problem of low volume with games on other channels.  Perhaps if the fans complain loud enough and long enough, they will do something about it.

[kimnat]

Yeah, that sound thing is weird.  I really have to crank up the volume to just hear it!  Then the commercials come on and kill my ear!  And I have Verizon FiOS.