ls FM radio even listenable any more?

Not all FM is played from disks or digital files. The station I mentioned spins records if the DJ's have them.

Friday night listening to some cool FM music on my MD 102 with headphones while the rest of the house is asleep. Great sound quality.

I grew up in Toronto listening to Q107 and CFNY "The Spirit of Radio". I kind of wasted my time with Q107 but CFNY was rather great back in the day, but they were slowly declining when I started listening. They are awful now. Great thing back then was the fact that the DJ’s on CFNY would program their own music.

I am now in Southern California and discovered the incredible KCRW (KCRW.com) on the FM dial. It is an NPR station and they have incredible DJ’s that are allowed to play anything they want (depending on mood). I have stayed up until 3AM may nights listening to incredible tunes. The NPR news stuff starts at 3AM so I usually turn it off then.

Every time I listen I discover a new artist or an old gem that I have to look up via their playlist and add it to my Tidal or Qobuz library. I think they also have an FM signal in Hambug, Germany.

I even bought a second FM/HD radio to listen to the KCRW 24 hour HD on air stream. However, that music stream does seem to have a mix of tunes I like. The main FM broadcast is the gem.

The cool audiophile stores in Southern California have KCRW on the tuners when I have gone demoing.

@lp2cd Here is a Facebook link to a former old CFNY DJ that still spins tunes on the net.

https://www.facebook.com/The-Live-Earl-Jive-103836561312635
https://www.facebook.com/RadioJive

You should check out KCRW.com if you liked the old CFNY. KCRW is even better. They play everything from every era and every style and every country.

They even play vinyl sometimes because the DJ’s think it sounds better.

At the moment the station is a little messed up with Covaid but it still shines.