[BC] Good sounding anlog receivers was re: WCBS dumps IBOC, returns to "High Definition" AM

[Bill Harms]

The issue is, as stated here and other places, is that people are in 
love with the word "digital".  Digital is not necessarily better. 
Personally, I prefer to listen to AM in wideband on my old tube 
radios (All American Fives - AA5s) to most of the  junk on the 
market, digital and analog.  Most tube radios sound "whole" if 
properly maintained.  Thank goodness there are still tubes around.  I 
am sure that receiver manufacturers could mass market decent sounding 
wide-band solid state receivers, but the sad reality, they don't.

Bill Harms
Elkridge, Maryland
www.philocbill.com

On 29 Jun 2006 at 13:36, Bailey, Scott wrote:

> I just bought a 2003 Ford Explorer, and I was shocked that it had AM
> Stereo on it, and it was really wideband. Excellent audio response, and
> mono AMs sound almost the same as the FMs!  The Delco Radio in my 2005
> Chevy Monte Carlo is awful on AM.  Bandwidth down to nearly 4 KC! "Lets
> ban all DELCO AM Radios!"
> 
> If the auto & portable radio manufactures would listen to us, plus the
> FCC, we COULD bring back wideband AM, and it would save AM for the time
> being. You would see more music stations like mine pop back up on the am
> dial.
> 
> Scott