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A/B AM/FM comparison of KNX before switch to sports

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Richard Wagoner of LA Radio Waves has a poll on his site debating if AM with a good tuner sounds just as good as FM. It includes audio clips that he recorded that you don't know which is which. He won't reveal the answer until after the poll closes, so you may want to save the link and check on it later this week.

Here's the article in the LA Daily News which includes a link to the poll. After you vote you'll see the results. There are only 33 people voting so far, so maybe we can double that amount for Richard.

www.dailynews.com

Is AM radio dead? No. Will it ever dominate? Also, no.

The experts say AM is dead, but columnist Richard Wagoner thinks most of AM’s problems are self-inflicted.
www.dailynews.com www.dailynews.com
 
xkxrx said:
Richard Wagoner of LA Radio Waves has a poll on his site debating if AM with a good tuner sounds just as good as FM. It includes audio clips that he recorded that you don't know which is which. He won't reveal the answer until after the poll closes, so you may want to save the link and check on it later this week.

Here's the article in the LA Daily News which includes a link to the poll. After you vote you'll see the results. There are only 33 people voting so far, so maybe we can double that amount for Richard.

www.dailynews.com

Is AM radio dead? No. Will it ever dominate? Also, no.

The experts say AM is dead, but columnist Richard Wagoner thinks most of AM’s problems are self-inflicted.
www.dailynews.com www.dailynews.com
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Gotta love Richard and his one-man army out to save the AM Band.
 
Wagoner notes there haven't been a lot of participants "yet" in his poll. The reason might be there are fewer readers of print newspapers than there are listeners to AM radio.
 
xkxrx said:
Richard Wagoner of LA Radio Waves has a poll on his site debating if AM with a good tuner sounds just as good as FM. It includes audio clips that he recorded that you don't know which is which. He won't reveal the answer until after the poll closes, so you may want to save the link and check on it later this week.

Here's the article in the LA Daily News which includes a link to the poll. After you vote you'll see the results. There are only 33 people voting so far, so maybe we can double that amount for Richard.

www.dailynews.com

Is AM radio dead? No. Will it ever dominate? Also, no.

The experts say AM is dead, but columnist Richard Wagoner thinks most of AM’s problems are self-inflicted.
www.dailynews.com www.dailynews.com
Click to expand...

So---all you need is a...43-year-old tuner?

And, frankly---neither of those samples sounds very good. If I have to guess, I'll say sample 1 is the AM and sample 2 is the FM, but a more instructive A/B would be to take recordings made from that same tuner 43 years ago and today. Between "make it as loud as possible" processing and Voltair, the sound of most commercial radio has been massively degraded.
 


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