Re: [ARSCLIST] Internet audio: What do you expect of it ?

[Rod Stephens <savecal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Olhsson wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> > From Steven C. Barr: "... Thus, there was very little
> interest in "high fidelity" reproduction...and AM (they didn't yet
> have FM radio in cars...!) served the purpose quite well.
>
> I think AM radio in the '50s and '60s was much higher quality than most
> people realize, very possibly better and certainly less distorted than
> today's shredded FM and CDs. FM could be superb but usually wasn't. While I
> was briefly in college in western Michigan during the mid '60s I could pick
> up Chicago's WFMT which was by far the best broadcast audio quality I've
> ever heard but that station was very much the exception.
>  
In the L.A. area, KCBH-FM (Crawfords of Beverly Hills, an audio 
emporium) in the '60s was a superb station, and they even played master 
tapes over the air

> Bob Olhsson Audio Mastery, Nashville TN
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