[BC] Seedy Quality in IBUZ Ads

[Kent Winrich]

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WHAT?? There are no know problems with I-FuzzM!

The IFuzzM Evil Empire is forcing us to go with vastly inferior product!
Why go with stereo when the range is far limited compared to mono?

Joe-6-pack will never want to buy a brand new receiver just to pick up
IFuzzM, and then a new one to pick up IFuzzM stereo too??  And extra
SPEAKERS TOO????  People will NEVER want to do that!

And you cant find an IFuzzM receiver!  I walked into my local Zenith store
and asked about IFuzzM.  They said "What are you talking about?" and showed
me the lastest AM models that had a turntable built in (I hear that records
will be the death of radio!)   They also showed me the lastest TVs.  (I hear
TV will be the death of radio as well!)  But no IFuzzM radios!  Joe-6-pack
hasnt even heard of IFuzzM!  And I KNOW they dont want it!  (Because I am
such an expert on everything radio!)

Noone can get IFuzzM in the car either!  And IFuzzM does not have the range
of most AMs!  I need an external antenna to make it work???  My AM radio has
a built in loop that works fine.  Why does IFuzzM need an antenna to work??

There is no good programming on IFuzzM either!  How are they going to make
money off of IFuzzM when all of the money is on AM!  How is broadcasting
going to make money with all of the new stations coming on the air???

What a farce this IFuzzM Evil Empire is!

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On 8/27/06, Robert Orban <rorban at earthlink.net> wrote:
Yep.

Even with minimal peak limiting, the average modulation of a typical major
market FM station would have to be decreased anywhere from 6-10 dB (program
material dependent) to achieve no audible HF loss caused by preemphasis
limiting. No commercial broadcaster is going to take that kind of hit.

Then there is the whole multipath distortion issue. There is a reason why
it was virtually impossible to do an FCC mandated proof of performance from
a remote receiver back in the day. Even when the signal is not falling
apart audibly, measurements typically show surprisingly high THD. The fact
that FM listening subjectively satisfies a lot of people says something
about the human ear's insensitivity to small amounts of nonlinear
distortion. But if FM were the "new technology," people on this list would
be making sarcastic cracks like, "That newsfangled FM system works really
well -- as long as you can connect your receiver directly to the
transmitter's sampling loop! But in the real world of mobile, there's
nothing but spitting, picket-fencing, random blasts of multipath
distortion, and a stereo image that's constantly expanding and contracting
as the receiver blends. Great system, that FM!"

Bob Orban

Bob Orban


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