[BC] It is better because it is digital?

[Kent Winrich]

Indeed digital is not necessarily better.  I still have some 8100s on 
some of my stations.... intentionally.

As you, I enjoy a good sounding AM station on my 1940s Philco console!


On 6/30/06, Bill Harms 
<<mailto:wharms at philcobill.com>wharms at philcobill.com> wrote:
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
<http://www.philocbill.com>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.