''Sound Quality'' was a

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broadcast on the

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network between 1995 and 2015, featuring new music, generally in the genres of

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, but including other genres as well. The show was produced and presented by Tim Ritchie. Ritchie began his radio broadcasting career in 1976, when as a schoolboy, he rang ABC's youth radio station Double J and gave a critique of the Double J presenter's performance. The presenter suggested that if Ritchie could do a better job, he should do the show the next day. He did, and worked his way through a university degree as he worked shifts on Double J and then

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, including a stint in

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, before moving across to Radio National. He started Sound Quality in 1995. Past programs since 1999 are still available on the ABC website.

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