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Why does FM sound better than AM?

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259 points zdw | 1 comments | 13 Oct 24 22:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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dmitrygr ◴[14 Oct 24 00:20 UTC] No.41832956[source]▶
This is 100% nonsense. Phase noise exists too, not just amplitude noise.

The answer is actually rather simple. AM stations are limited to 10KHz band width. FM gets 200KHz. More bandwidth allows representing a higher fidelity signal…

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