In article .com,
Robert Laws writes

Guy King wrote:
The message
from Ian Stirling contains these words:

Hopefully, quality will be quite good, as bitrate is much less
expensive.

At the moment much of it is bloody awful. R4 gets the scrag end of
what's left over after R3's pedants have had the lion's share.

Speaking as a radio three pedant....

Although it is still called radio three the channel is now used for
material that would previously have been broadcast radio 2. I feel
that now radio 3 is the only 'high sound quality' DAB channel there is
more justification for using it in this way. It's bit like the old
"music programme" which was broadcast on the third proigramme on in the
evenings in the fiftes(?).

Incidentally, while I am rambling on, radio 3 DAB has mostly given up
using true stereo but uses the much inferior 'joint stereo' instead. I
guess they have done this in order to get a less distorted sound at the
cost of a stereo image. I am happy with this, but it means that the
only place to find true stereo broadcasting is on FM.

Robert

Quite..


UK DAB is a **** poor implementation of a digital radio system.

The only people who get this right and worthy of calling it a decent
system are the Germans on their satellite transmissions, where the
broadcast quality is excellent:-))

And France Musique isn't that bad either, but its only 256 K/Bits
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Tony Sayer