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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
You see, kids, AM radio was a primitive form of audio streaming done using radio signals broadcast from large towers. The bandwidth was barely enough to transmit the human voice and the modulation mechanism was susceptible to noise, and so the quality was poor (especially for music).
AM did, however, have the benefit of simplicity and degrading "gracefully" so even a poor quality signal could be used to recover the audio at the expense of degraded quality. People would become accustomed to the poor quality of the sound they could receive.