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2022: We gained three dance stations this year!
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AM sounded just as bad in 1997 as it does today. In fact, it has sounded that bad for the last 100 years, give or take.
Could you imagine what your average AM clipper does with all the subharmonics contained within EDM? THD=40% IMD=60%.
Back in 1997 there were still plenty of cars with wideband C-Quam AM Stereo tuners, which gave it a fighting chance of sounding decent. The Beat Radio affiliate in the NYC area (1660 WJDM in Elizabeth, NJ) transmitted in AM Stereo.
Few alive today remember, let alone care.
How long ago was that? And where are they today? Still playing EDM? Didn't think so.
Hasn't Westport gotten a bit downscale in recent years? On recent visits to KC, it's seemed to me that the action is now in the Power & Light District and the nearby Crossroads area adjacent to Union Station south of downtown. I understand there have been some issues with crime in Westport as well.
But back to "Beat Radio" - the Chicago affiliate was WAUR in Aurora, which had a noisy signal in the city proper. I have tapes, and haven't bothered digitizing them because it didn't sound that great due to conditions just before sunset when I was recording at my lakefront location. Beat Radio was a placeholder anyway after Radio Aahs imploded.
The dance audience seems very enthusiastic about the genre but it's also very small in numbers for actual listening - in part, because it's music not designed to be listened to but, instead, to provide the beat for dancing - by definition.
Westport is pretty bad, especially at night. I was close to there in Midtown and a bar there had a sign in neon lights that said "Please don't do coke in the bathroom."
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Here's an example of what EDM actually sounds like on a wideband AM mono receiver. The station's audio processor is an Optimod 9200:
Her board obviously has no faders, just on and off switches!
KLOK San Jose?
Sounds like distorted, over-processed hash alright. Can't even hear the beats over mid range synth, which makes sense. And David is right, what's with the sudden break-in and out with that announcer? Me thinks this is likely a doctored recording.
Part of the problem is nobody give a dman these days about keeping RF noise low. It's amazing during the times the power goes out how quiet the noise floor becomes.
I figure the problem will continue worse over time with all the junk SMPS out there that emit noise all over the place. Also Utility companies with arcing or bad insulators etc. that don't care until it catch on fire (PG&E) that trash a AM signal.
Of course the FCC wont put it's foot down and actually enforce Part 15 with fines and penalties on companies that sell this crap and revoke their certification. It may as well not exist. I herd there there is enforcement but it seems very minimal and garbage in no way that is complaint continues to be sold in mass volumes.
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Pretty much.
AM stereo isn't coming back. I think a few stations still use it for some reason.
On UK radio discussion sites, you can generally count the number of posts before any given topic, no matter what the original subject, becomes a discussion of the bitrates in use on DAB radio.
Here, you can count the number of posts before a topic becomes a debate about AM, AM Stereo, declining listenership and audio quality, normally with some fairly questionable comments about autism (the endless "Rain Man" quips from one member).
Here, you can count the number of posts before a topic becomes a debate about AM, AM Stereo, declining listenership and audio quality, normally with some fairly questionable comments about autism (the endless "Rain Man" quips from one member).
Oh please, lighten up and imagine the text as spoken: "DAB bitrates are too low." "Serious injury book is a red book, that book is blue."
"AM Stereo is the next big thing." "That's my pen." "That's definitely my book."
Now I know you can hear it too. You're welcome.
No, it's just a low-budget AM daytimer (WWTR), most of whose DJs are volunteers.
And when she did try to talk over the music without ducking it, it didn't turn out too well:
Still, I'd rather have a live, local personality than a voice track or satellite feed, even if their board technique needs more practice.
Is she providing you with anything specifically local to your area -- news, meeting notices, school lunch menus, weather reports, high school sports scores -- that a professional voicetracker or satellite-fed DJ wouldn't be able to? What value does a giggly volunteer DJ with a thick accent (Asian Subcontinent?) bring to the table even when it comes to the music? She's talking over it, so even if she is saying something interesting about the song, it's impossible to understand.
Then it really doesn't count.
More practice? More like any technique.
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