A note on Asimov’s Foundation series in the BBC audio of 1973. Available on Archive.org, which some may be downloading about now in order to complete the story as the author intended, now the ongoing TV series is getting such poor reviews. The BBC’s ‘Radiophonic’ electronic music was found deafeningly loud by many, compared to the series dialogue.

I’ve found a more suitable way of listening to it, on headphones. Simply get the free AIMP Player, and then use its “Headphones” preset. Presumably this emulates more closely a typical 1970s kitchen-radio speaker, as in the original audio broadcast. The preset dampens the sharps of the music enough (the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop, at their most future-dissonant) to make it quite listenable. Just tweak the graphic equaliser settings.