[BC] nominations for best sounding AM in your area?

[Dana Puopolo]

I routinely rip phase rotators out-I find they muck up the transients-which I
believe are VERY important for the aural cues they give our ears ("apparent
loudness").

-D

From: Mark Humphrey <mark3xy at gmail.com>

Let's talk some more about asymmetry.  It's standard practice today to
put an all-pass network ("phase rotator") ahead of the AGC,
compressors and limiter and then make the waveform artificially
asymmetrical by clipping negative peaks harder than positive,