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What is the effect of switching a receiver to a narrower intermediate bandwidth?

  • A.Better selectivity and duller audio
  • B.Better fidelity and worse selectivity
  • C.Better sensitivity and unchanged selectivity
  • D.No change beyond a lower noise floor

Answer: A

Narrowing the filter rejects the neighbours better and cuts the outer sidebands that carry the treble, so interference falls and the sound becomes muffled. That is the selectivity-against-fidelity trade in one control. Fidelity certainly does not improve. Sensitivity changes only slightly, through the reduced noise bandwidth. And describing the change as merely a lower noise floor omits the loss of audio content, which is what the listener notices first.

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