Or do what The Netherlands has done, where around 120 LPAMs operate with powers between 1 and 100 watts. No idea of how many listeners such stations might actually have.
I find it interesting that today's music listeners will put up with a low-bandwidth Spotify stream that sounds pretty much on-par with AM radio, but wouldn't think of listening to an actual AM radio station.
What are you talking about?š¤Ø We have Spotify, and it has excellent, full fidelity audioā¦superior to FM.
No high (or any) noise floor on Spotify, no atmospheric interference. And it sounds more like FM than AM, even on spoken-word podcasts.
Not pumping AM at all. Perhaps it's different if you're a paid subscriber, but I don't get much above about 7 KHz when I play anything on Spotify. It sounds really band-limited to me. The interference - of course, that's a whole different story.
I would say it's a settings issue, Spotify plays at 320KBps AAC.
Only for premium subscribers. Free users get a lower bit rate. Subscribers can also select a lower bit rate (branded as a data usage reduction for mobile users). I'm not sure what the bit rates are off the top of my head.
I did a quick google and a few sources echo this: with Free Spotify, the maximum bitrate you can stream at is 128kbps on the web player and 160kbps on the mobile and desktop apps.
Way back in the day my Dad lived in San Diego for a time and listened to Jazzbeaux Collins late nights on KGO...his show was his favorite.
The European standard for MW (AM) is 4.5 kHz audio. This is based on the 9 kHz channel spacing/bandwidth. Although here in the US our channel spacing/bandwidth is 10 kHz, the rules permit 10 kHz audio, providing that a brickwall filter is in used ahead of the antenna system to prevent any audio above 10 kHz. To prevent artifacts that result from brickwall type filters the audio is rolled off such that there is no audio above about 9.5 kHz reaching the phasers/antenna system.
I recently discovered that Spotify offers a free service and it sounds just fine on my Bose soundbar!
Alright. I stand corrected. I was basing my observations on what I hear on a friend's system. She always plays Spotify whenever I go over there and it sounds really mushy to me. But I looked a bit further and discovered it's blue-tooth connected to the stereo, with who-knows-what going on in that chain. An A/B comparison between Spotify and FM radio is night-and-day on her system. But I did try Spotify on a PC with a regular audio connection and I have to agree. It's full of artifacts, but not band-limited.
Amazon Ultra HD hi-res quality is claimed to be lossless 24-bit/192kHz resolution
Bluetooth connection protocols have greatly improved over the past decade. Earlier bluetooth versions did not have good audio range, while newer editions sound much better. You would have to see how old your friend's equipment is.
FM Mall isn't too far behind. The future of media is all online. It's not a matter of if, but when.
When I was in the Netherlands last year, I found that neither low-power AM listed for Amsterdam was on the air. Earlier in that trip, I was also near Eindhoven, where Radio Brainport was operating, and broadcasting in English, on the old Radio 1 frequency of 747, but being entirely automated and without any audible means of financial support. I was in a village just south of Eindhoven and found the signal to be very noisy there. The station is reportedly at the High Tech Campus, a former Philips facility on the southern edge of Eindhoven. Considering how dense the FM networks are there, I really don't see how the AM band is going to attract many listeners. I don't know about DAB; next time I'm over there to see the in-laws, I really should try to see if I can buy a radio for that purpose.
You might be the first person in 44 pages to suggest that KGO's sports betting format competes with anyone for listening time.
