Originally posted by: Gurck
am is far better than fm, you can really tell who the young children are from reading this thread If $10 walkmans could do it in the 80s, why can't $400 mp3 players now? I just don't get it. I've been on the fence for months now about buying one, an AM tuner would make the decision for me on an otherwise good player like the iRiver.
Space is at more of a premium....hey wait a second, where'd you get a Walkman for 10 bucks in the 80's anyway? Were you one of those lkids with a RCA instead of a Sony? *points, laughs, steals lunch money* World's a noisier place electronicly speaking as well, which further drives people away from AM, further reducing the benefit of including it. Still, I wish it was there too since the only thing I ever listen to on FM is NPR, rest of the day is spent on AM.
What would be an acceptable substitute for lack of AM would be timed recording to mp3 (not 8khz voice recording) so I could leave the player hooked up to a good radio and listen to the show later. Lot handier than using a computer to record and then copying over, not to mention the noise of the computer itself. The Xclef player (yet another iPod like player, 40/80gig) can record mp3 from 32-320, but no timed recording from the reviews I read. Hmm, I'll email them to see if they can add that to the next model.