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alexd wrote:

The issue of properly handling FM signal is related to the capabilities of your A/D converters. Your A/D converters have analog and digital anti-aliasing filters and delta-sigma modulated A/D chips.

Actually if I am not mistaken my A/D do not use any delta-sigma modulated A/D chips as it is a pure multibit A/D. It is not important however. What is important is that for sake of A/D conversion the FM recording is surprisingly nasty thing. FM cares its stereo information in subcarrier up to 53kHz and if the subcarrier and the 19kHz pilot are not properly killed then they interferes with A/D inputs. Anyhow, this is not the subject of FM and it’s recording so I would call myself for a discipline. However, the message I would like to send that there is no need to demean FM as some kind of inferior sources. In my home FM beats hands down any other source and if you have a good local station then it would do in your home as well. Saying it, I do aknowledge and understand all limitation of FM.

alexd wrote:

Even then, every recording is highly depended on recording engineer's taste and skills. In your home set-up, you have very limited control, almost everything,  except gain is preset.

And here is where the live FM broadcast acting as a liberation force, taking the “taste and skills recording engineers” (which are mostly insultingly-barbaric) out of the consideration. It is my favorite subject but it s not the subject of this thread, I have a separate forum dedicated to off-air audio.

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