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From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com
"Robert Bannister" wrote in message
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> On 27/08/13 2:41 PM, Your Name wrote:
>> 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).
>
> I would claim it is. If I set the balance so that the stereo effect is
> perfect for me, my passengers hear the sound as coming from one side, or,
> depending how I've done it, from one corner of the car.
That's not true essentially because the whole car is the speaker most of the
time.
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