While flipping through channels, I saw in CNN a short video clip from the International space station where the crew of it was explaining the situation there and discussing various other topics. But what I found quite interesting is how low the audio quality was, compared to the crisp smooth video feed. The quality of abused vinyl disks would have been probably better. I highly doubt this is because its a issue of trasmitting high quality audio since there is obviously enough to send a very high quality video stream. It could be the microphone, but my $5 microphone which I used at home has quality far more greater, and quite small as well.

Its just one of those things that doesn't make any sense, when one would imagine with all this technology they would have at least considered upgrading the audio equipment and transmision technology so a human like voice could be heard.