[BC] AM Stereo

[Robert Orban]

At 11:13 PM 11/25/2010, Scott Bailey wrote:
>Oh come on Bob, Delco AM Radios are nothing but a piece of crap!  In my 2006
>Monte Carlo, the AM audio was so bad, it was almost like listening 
>to telephone
>audio!  Other car manufactures like Kia, are doing the same thing. 
>Make the AM
>as cheap as they can. I test drove a new Ford Mustang this year and 
>AM sounded
>great. I think Delco just doesn't care about AM, PERIOD! Delco will 
>never, ever
>make a decent AM Radio again. Besides, I buy Ford cars, not nasty GM Trash!
>  Scott Bailey
>WMRO-AM, Gallatin, TN
>
> > So it's really unfair to accuse the receiver manufacturers of not
> > following through. At the time, at least Delco considerably increased
> > its radios' bandwidths as a result of the NRSC deliberations.
> > However, I don't think that this survived the upheaval that Delco
> > went through later.
> >

Scott -- I'm not sure what a 2006 Delphi radio has to do with what I 
wrote (and what you quoted). The Delco wide-band AM stereo radios 
appeared about 20 years ago (shortly after the NRSC standard was 
published), and I said in my original post, almost certainly did not 
survive the upheaval that occurred in the GM auto electronics line 
long before GM's recent bankruptcy. The Delco engineers who 
participated in the NRSC deliberations are long gone from GM's 
electronics operation.

Bob Orban