[BC] KB-1520 (was: Digital Walkman?)

[Kevin Tekel]

Randy Shaffer wrote:
> A few months ago, I was working on an old AM radio. The dial was out of
> calibration I was trying to find a local talk station and came across
> rock music on AM. I think it was a Grassroots song. It sound great and I
> commented to my 10 year old son how this is how radio sounded when I was
> a kid and how I spent hours listening to CKLW, WCFL, WLS, WABC and WKBW.
> At that moment a KB radio 15 bump aired and I felt like I was back in
> time. By the third song I realized it had to be automated and there
> would be no personality to entertain.

Although his show technically is automated (voice-tracked), Jack Armstrong
on KB-1520 squeezes out ten times as much "live" personality as you get
from a typical FM jock.  And KB does have very good audio; I recently
heard them play the Righteous Brothers hit "(You're My) Soul and
Inspiration" and it was living proof that the Phil Spector "wall of sound"
sounds best on AM.  On FM, these type of songs sound pompously
over-produced, but on a good AM receiver they sound rich and majestic,
with a powerful mid-range presence.


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