Re:Is Am Radio Dead?
by seba_dos1 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:20AM
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We generally haven't been using pre-TV big console radios for decades now too. In places where range matters less (such as Europe) AM has been pretty much dead for a while already, not even speaking about transmitting music.
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Ok sure, but "AM is not currently used for music" is a far cry from "You can't put music down [AM]".
I invoked the old radios because you certainly heard a lot of music through them and they all used AM, whether over medium-wave or short-wave frequencies. Same for the ubiquitous All-American Five tabletop/kitchen radios; I've owned them, they sound just fine if you can find an AM station that's playing music.
You can put music through a PC speaker too. Some old games even managed to play some real bangers this way; but these days I'd say that stating "you can't put music through a PC speaker" when talking about commercially viable means of music playback is justified even if not technically true.