So I have been reading your posts about bad broadcast TV audio. Thinking more about this topic, how would you say you feel about most webcast audio? This is becoming a very large market and medium for many organizations, churches especially. I mix a webcast every Sunday morning for a church in Tennessee and one thing we have struggled with recently is the different environment in which our viewers see/hear the service. We are assuming there aren't too many people with their laptops or computers plugged in to great sounding speakers.

This in mind, we have started mixing with multiple monitoring sources, adding some crappy desktop speakers that we are hoping will help us to better hear what our audience hears. We mostly mix monitoring with our professional studio installation, but switch off and on to the low quality desktop speakers. What do you think about this practice? Feel free to email back and I'll send a link to an archived copy of our webcast so you can hear for yourself...

... overall though, I would make the assumption that webcast audio is usually much worse than TV broadcast. Does this have to do more with compression for streaming, etc. you think or the original source? Case in point, see U2's recent YouTube LA concert.