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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article <0gln19lla66i5l2du8rv2ru9h1n7ebs0t2@4ax.com>, The Horny Goat   
    wrote:   
   > On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:22:39 +1200, YourName@YourISP.com (Your Name)   
   > wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> FM radio had an effective stereo technology (almost?) from its   
   > >> beginnings.  AM's version of stereo didn't arrive until the end of the   
   > >> eighties, and seems to have been a failure.  When I was looking for a   
   > >> car stereo in 2003, only the very expensive units seemed to have them,   
   > >> while a friend's super-cheap car stereo in 1990 (Craig brand) had AM   
   > >> stereo.   
   > >>   
   > >> Without stereo, music is a hard sell.   
   > >   
   > >Most people can't tell the difference, even though they think they can. In   
   > >fact, with a proper steroe sound system, most people aren't ever sitting   
   > >in the right place to get the full effect anyway.   
   >   
   > These days I listen to the radio 2 ways: (1) in my car where I assume   
   > the noise of the engine and other traffic will negate any stereo   
   > effect and (2) at home usually over their internet feeds   
      
   If your car has the speakers set into the doors, then it's one of the few   
   places where the stereo effect can work properly since you're sitting   
   between the two speakers and the distance from each speaker to your ears   
   is minimally different (obviously you're closer to one than the other, but   
   a car isn't wide enough to mkae ahuge difference).   
      
   Of course, it you're around 20 years old, then you've got a bass speaker   
   and the bass turned up so loud that all you hear is "boom, boom, boom"   
   anyway .. and by the time you're old enough to actually want to hear the   
   music, you'll be deaf as a post.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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