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I tuned into an AM station today, and had to check the settings on the radio to make sure the bass wasn't cranked up.
It was very boomy.
Does anyone here know if AM radio staions are boosting the bass when they transmit their signal? Perhaps it may be an effort to make the music sound 'richer', since they can't broadcast in stereo.
(Whatever happened to that "AM stereo" that showed up briefly in the 80s?)
Perhaps it's just that newer vehicles have better-quality speakers, so the music doesn't come across as 'tinny' as I recall, but I found a lot of songs on one of the oldies stations (songs very familiar to me) to have inappropriately high bass levels.
Just curious...
It was very boomy.
Does anyone here know if AM radio staions are boosting the bass when they transmit their signal? Perhaps it may be an effort to make the music sound 'richer', since they can't broadcast in stereo.
(Whatever happened to that "AM stereo" that showed up briefly in the 80s?)
Perhaps it's just that newer vehicles have better-quality speakers, so the music doesn't come across as 'tinny' as I recall, but I found a lot of songs on one of the oldies stations (songs very familiar to me) to have inappropriately high bass levels.
Just curious...
