"Radio Ronn" lq6dpvk02-at-sneakemail.com wrote in message
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It also removes some (all?) of thecomp[ression that was necessary for AM
analog....and adress listener fatique that occurrs with too much
processing/compression, etc.

Compression isn't and never has been "necessary" for AM analog (and btw,
it's also used on FM AND on IBOC). It's used to 'punch up' the audio so that
the station appears louder than it would without compression (can you say
6dB of dynamic range? Of course you can!). Compression is evil. The last
holdouts for un-compressed signals were the classical stations. This was
because classical listeners expected both pianissimo and crescendo, and
everything in between. The more plebian formats don't matter so much, since
average listeners only seem to care that they can hear something, not what
that something may contain.