ls FM radio even listenable any more?


Sam here and fm radio for me has been unlistenable since maybe 1995 

l found an independent radio station out of toronto canada that plays 24/7 1st press commercial free vinyl and the sound is outstanding vinyl voyage radio  http://www.vinylvoyageradio.com/p/schedule.html  monday is 24 hours of 80's
guitarsam
durkn
... There is still great quality analog audio being broadcast ...
I just heard a live song played on it & the sound quality is outstanding. If you’ve given up on FM, you are missing out...
I am still into FM. But the fact is that almost all FM is digital, even though the signal itself is still analog. Radio stations play from HD drives, signal processing is sometimes digital and STLs - which many stations use - are frequently digital.

But you mention a special thing: live broadcasts. Although these are often also run through digital processing, there can be some real sonic gems in live broadcasts.
Not all FM is played from disks or digital files. The station I mentioned spins records if the DJ's have them.
Cleeds- 
Yeah, this one station says they ‘are loading up some vinyl’ but they may not be playing any...

I believe it depends on how much compression the fm station uses. The stations that use a lot of compression sound bad on a good system and the stations that use very little sound much better.