Enjoying the Original Music Streaming Format - Analog FM Stereo

After so much digital streaming, much of it HD Flac, there is nothing like a well dialed in analog broadcast!

@motown-l How is stereo FM better than streaming? Aren’t FM stations nowadays broadcasting digital sources anyway? You’re not claiming they still spin analog vinyl records in the station booth, are you? I’ll bet those are all long gone.

I’m probably closer to the nostalgia of true analog FM from source to sink. I just bypass the broadcast spectrum and play the analog LPs in my own listening room.

The DJ's on some of the local stations still spin some vinyl, pops. clicks and all.

I went to college in the late 70s (University of Chicago). We basicly had 2 choices then, LPs or FM. (One kid had reel to reel, and cassete tapes were just happening).

I lived in a dorm that was a converted hotel overlooking lake Michigan (The Shoreland).  The hotel had been converted to apartments decades earlier so most dorm rooms had a living room. Pretty much every one of them had an FM antenna taped to the wall above the stereo system.

BTW, almost every living area had a stereo system, almost none of them had a TV. I don’t remember a single one.

Jerry

I sometimes listen to WFMT in analog but it just doesn’t compare with the digital feed at 320 bps.  The analog feels like it has a hole in the motor the soundstage, even with the Magnum Dynalab tuner.

  I go to Detroit frequently and agree that WDET sounds great on my non digital car tuner 

When working from home, I normally listen to jazz all day on KNKX through a Magnum Dynalab Etude. It's close to CD quality and better than most digital streams. Radio Paradise is about the only digital "radio" station that I've found that is worth listening to.