I only listen to analog radio now. ...With an antenna, a wire antenna, or any FM antenna that can receives signal from classical and jazz and blues radio stations.
It depends...of where you live...and of the people working for them radio stations. Lots and lots of commercials; so it's good for the exercise, and switch stations often.
Radio without distortion of some sort or compression doesn't exist. Even HD radio. And Internet radio I yet to take the time to explore.
So many music passions so little time to explore all radios.
I still have some analog radios...Marantz, Kenwood and couple more.
I found digital radios sounding too antiseptic, anesthetic, constipated, drugs infected, polarized, javex hospital floor cleaner, lifeless.
It's almost like digital CDs versus analog vinyl, but not quite to that extreme drama.
I think man feels more comfortable with distortions and imperfections. That's where we come from, so it must have a deep influence in our subconscious inner selves.
Anyway, analog radio is just fine by me, just as I love albums (LPs & 45s) and CDs and SACDs and Blu-rays and 2D and 3D and guitars and cars and mountains and eagles and oceans and people of all provenance and colors. There's nothing more sexual and sensual than turning that big radio dial wheel to where you want it with your own manual hand touching it. I even prefer it to the Marantz's own horizontal Gyro touch rubber wheel. The regular knob that we used to grow with when we were young lovers is the one today I still love. ...Even over my touchscreen's cell phone, with zoom control, or voice activated.
Yeah, analog radio is like sex; you can adjust the dial calibration and lubricate the sensitive parts so that they run smoother. ...And there is that belt.
Spin that smooth knob, release your fingers from it, and it'll keep spinning for another second or two...all on its own.
