The independent sideband system of AM stereo can, by use of special audio processing, significantly improve mono reception. The resulting transmitted signal, called a 'POWER-side' signal, allows listeners to 'sideband tune' with new types of mono receivers so as to reduce co and adjacent channel interference, improve the effective fidelity of the AM receiver, and make the receiver's tuning significantly less critical. Furthermore, due to the inequality of low frequency sideband components, the system reduces selective fading, antenna null distortion and re-radiation problems when the POWER-side signal is received by both 'sideband tuned' mono receivers as well as digitally tuned stereo and mono receivers which center tune to the carrier frequency. Most importantly, this type of wave substantially reduces co-channel 'beating' effects that have, since the earliest days of broadcasting, plagued AM signal reception.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>