On May 17, 5:47 pm, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:
In article .com,
Robert Laws wrote:

With DAB we have got a large quantity of channels but the sound
quality is poor. it is a step back from the 1950s.

I'm listening to the PM prog on R4 DAB at the moment via a decent amp and
speakers and the quality ain't poor. It sounds exactly the same as FM. LW
sounds poor. Are you asking for that to be abolished or upgraded in some
way? AM is capable of decent enough results too.

BTW I doubt you actually remember FM from the '50s. With the exception
of Wrotham (London), the quality of the landlines feeding the
transmitters was dreadful. By the time you got a couple of hundred miles
of them the actual bandwidth transmitted on FM was no greater than MW -
on a decent receiver.

You are right, I should have said "a step back from the 1970s.
Although I did listen to FM in the 1960s it's really the era of FM
stereo that I compare DAB with unfavourably.

My regret is that they went for "lots of stations" instead of improved
sound quality.

Robert