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Does this mean Whistleblowers get erm..."humblown"?

"Never mind the Bollocks" this is just frighteneering for the gullible.

The killer is that almost everything is recorded and transmitted using lossy compression,

"whistleblowers" not in a studio will be using at best semi pro kit which will have mics on the recorder and the noise of the tape in the mechanism will drown any hum from a mains adaptor.

And, if you are in a Broadcast Studio you will be at back of a UPS so the max they can tell is if it has a Chloride or an Anton Piller and that`s it.

More relevantly:

If you have ever had the thankless task of tracking down hum in a broadcast or sound studio environment due to a wiring "intervention"( one of the best euphemisms I`ve come across) which created a path to a common ground "somewhere" You will notice that the harmonics you pick up depend on the orientation of the loop formed relative to the source, as it isn`t just resistive.

Anyone who plays guitar not on a wireless link could tell you that firsthand, but usually not know why

So this BS by a BOC.

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