-----Original Message-----In the L.A. area, KCBH-FM (Crawfords of Beverly Hills, an audio emporium) in the '60s was a superb station, and they even played master tapes over the airFrom Steven C. Barr: "... Thus, there was very littleinterest in "high fidelity" reproduction...and AM (they didn't yet have FM radio in cars...!) served the purpose quite well.
I think AM radio in the '50s and '60s was much higher quality than most
people realize, very possibly better and certainly less distorted than
today's shredded FM and CDs. FM could be superb but usually wasn't. While I
was briefly in college in western Michigan during the mid '60s I could pick
up Chicago's WFMT which was by far the best broadcast audio quality I've
ever heard but that station was very much the exception.
Bob Olhsson Audio Mastery, Nashville TN Mastering, Audio for Picture, Mix Evaluation and Quality Control Over 40 years making people sound better than they ever imagined! 615.385.8051 http://www.hyperback.com