"Telamon" wrote in message
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I said that there were stations that got the stereo light to shine
without
actually being in stereo. The objective was deceiptful, as what they
wanted
was to make people think that the station was stereo when it wasn't. Most
people never figured that out as they couldn't tell the difference.

How am I supposed to know about most people. You saying most people are
stupid then?

I read the same study many years ago, and have no trouble believing it,
since most people I know pay little actual attention to content, but instead
take psychological cues. Psychoacoustics is the main thing that allows for
mp3's to be listenable. It's a fact that the digitalization is so far from
accurate that it's not logically feasible, but the human brain has an
amazing capability to 'fill in the blanks'.

This is also why those 'stereo emulators' work at all... by dividing up the
bandpass between the channels.

AFN AM (except for Seoul and, finally, Osan) broadcasts one channel of a
stereo feed. It sounds like crap to the three people I know here that can
actually tell the difference (two of us are in the same house). Talking to
dozens of GI's, not a one of them even noticed that one channel was missing.
The engineers, until the most recent one, quipped "it's AM, it's only
monaural". The engineers were IDIOTS that had never heard of signal
summing!! That's how little people pay attention to program sources..