In article , Dave Plowman (News)
writes
In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
Hmm. You really saying you can tell the difference on R3 and R4?
Yes Dave, I can as it happens..
You *say* you can. As do others.
Yes.. as do quite a few others who are bothered by the noise the MP 2
codec makes when its been used at bitrates it was never intended for.
This was supposed to be the 21st century system that was to replace FM
but in effect is a lot worse than FM. Hopefully they'll see sense and
that a big mistake was made and do what other countries are now looking
to do and that is use a modern codec ACC+ which works much better at the
bitrates that DAB can handle.
Plenty claim to hear differences between
cables too.
Some can but that is a whole new argument Dave and you well know it
is!..
The problem is that the treatment applied to R3 is different
between DAB and FM which rather muddies the waters.
Yes it does but much was promised with DAB that hasn't materialised.
And the possibly better reception will sound much better than multipath
on FM on the average portable.
Multipath isn't that much of a problem for the rest of the country Dave
not everyone lives where you do!..
Just because you live in the nastiest bit of London for multipath it
doesn't mean every other person in the UK does..
All of London is nasty for all FM in the car.
Well I don't have any real problems apart from Pirate interference but
that isn't the fault of the system..
Likewise most of the country
with a portable radio unless you fiddle with the aerial and don't move
anywhere near it.
Hollyhocks.. We don't have any problems here and neither do a lot of
other people over the country.. there are quite a few places that don't
have Dabble reception as yet Dave and well you know it!..
VHF requires diversity reception to get round this -
which is why it's used on radio mics and some cars. Dunno any portable
that has it, though. VHF can be very good with a good fixed installation.
Which 99.9% don't have for every receiver in their home.
A lot don't need them but as you say they are rather good
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Tony Sayer