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AM sounds painfully awful
by voldacar 2y ago
AM sounds painfully awful
- kalleboo 2y agoFor a while there was an AM Stereo which sounded much better
- jamesbfb 2y agoAnd there are some stations in the US still broadcasting in AM Stereo AKA C-QUAM, if you have an AM stereo capable receiver that is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-QUAM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-QUAM
- hulitu 2y agoYou should listen to some DAB+ for comparison. I heard that 56kbps can make wonders. /s
- ugjka 2y agoThat's he-aac so 56kpbs is not that bad, it gets dicey below 32kbps when you need tricks like parametric stereo. But he-aac's spectral band replication does add metallic taste to everything, i would agree
- jen729w 2y agoAgree for music. Hard disagree for voice. Especially in the car! I can’t make out voices on FM at all. But AM, easy.
- lebuffon 2y agoThat "sound" is partially due to the design of the current AM system. It was built to pack more transmitters into the allocated frequency range. There are no technical impediments to high fidelity audio because of amplitude modulation. In the past the big limitation was the bandwidth of intermediate frequency (IF) amplifiers in the receivers which were typically tuned for maximum gain and not flat audio band response. The transmitters have flat response out to the legal limits. Radio stations have a monitor receiver that has proper IF audio response and the sound of those are very good.
- tomjen3 2y agoSo does DAB. It’s way the hell compressed. Not that I care too much, as I basically only do on demand media these days.