"Joel Kolstad" wrote in message
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I'm not convinced the average radio listener cares much about fidelity.

I think they care a lot about fidelity, but not how you'd typically
measure
it. To the average person, static or fading is far more annoying than
heavy
compression artifacts (that abount on XM and Sirius) or even short
dropouts.


Maybe, but it took thirty years for wideband FM to become competitive with
AM. And FM didn't replace AM. FM didn't start growing until there was a
market for additional stations.

Frank Dresser