In this letter to the editor, the author responds to a recently-published letter by Paul Shinn titled “To Cure AM, Look to the Past.” Comment on this or any article. Email [email protected].
Responding to Paul Shinn’s call for a petition to make AM stereo the standard: Every one of us who’s in support of AM stereo also needs to petition each other to get it together. Makers and marketers have some things to figure out. So do AM stereo’s fans.
I’ve wanted to hear music in stereo on AM since the 1980s when I was a teen and first learned it was possible. But I have never seen such receivers in any stores. They were always catalog items or special orders the consumer couldn’t try out first. How glorious it was when I occasionally got to…
