[BC] AM Fidelity vs FM fidelity

[Rob Landry]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Broadcast List USER wrote:

> Let's look at this from a practical standpoint, rather than the theoretical.

> An AM transmitter into a dummy load can pretty much have a 50 Hz to 20 
> kHz bandwidth.

So, then, the answer to my earlier question is that "fidelity" == 
frequency response.

As a middle-aged man bordering on old age, I am not especially interested 
in frequency response, as I can't hear much above 12 KHz any more.

Signal-to-noise ratio, dynamic range, and the relative lack of distortion 
are much more important to me. In those areas, FM has AM beat, game, set, 
and match.

Rob