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FORUM.
My AM Is True
Well, here I go, a "first-time reader" who just subscribed, and probably a "last-time writer" (all going well), who'd rather read other people's writing in your magazine than his own. Let me say up front that I like The $ensible Sound. I'm reading with pleasure the back issues I got from you with my subscription. I sure don't agree with all you say, but find you a useful counterpoise to TAS and Stereophile (both of which I also enjoy). Dialectical exploration of differences can lead closer to truth! But I don't come to praise Caesar.
I think the "joke" about AM radio (see Matt Romano's letter in your Sept/Oct 00 issue, and your mocking response) is on you and Mr. Ferstler. FM radio does indeed provide lots of good classical music, especially in the Baltimore-Washington area, where there are 3 (not 2, as suggested by Mr. Cierniak at p. 40 in the Sept/Oct 00 issue) FM stations that mostly play classical musical: one NPR station (WETA), one Baltimore university station (that also may be NPR), and one commercial station (WGMS, which also has an AM outlet). However, to hear entertaining talk radio, then it is usually commercial AM one wants.
Imus, et al, and their listeners may be "jokes" to you, Mr. Editor. It's your choice, your sense of humor, after all. But to millions of people the variety of opinions and the wacky or raunchy things available on AM radio (and some FM, especially the unintentionally funny PC stuff on NPR) are welcome alternatives to the good, grey, liberal establishment line espoused by the big media. That's their (and my!) choice. AM lives, Mr. Cierniak! Incidentally, I believe there are actually AM stations that belong to NPR.
I must say that in the recent receivers I've heard, the AM tuners are so poor they may as well not be there (Mr. Horan is right on the money at p. 52 of the Sept/Oct issue). I get good AM results with an old Philips boom box, a 1984-vintage Onkyo tuner and a new Kloss radio at the beach (2 classical FM stations available), and with a new Sangean CC Radio, an old Pioneer receiver and an aging Adcom tuner in Baltimore.
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Source: HighBeam Research, FORUM.