"Martin Brown" wrote in message
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On 06/01/2017 00:54, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Vir Campestris wrote:
When we bought our DAB radio it was the future. DAB was going to
be
better than FM. Now it's about like AM.

If your DAB really does sound like AM, you need to buy a decent DAB
receiver.

DAB is certainly inferior to FM (and also to the sound channel on
any of TDTV, Freesat TV using either radio or TV channels on them).

It is interesting to do A B switching on the Proms since the
satellite time delay allows you to listen to the same short chunk of
music twice.

DAB was almost acceptable until they cut the bitrate down (and would
have been acceptable if they had used the right ie newer codec).

There is nothing wrong with internet radio at all. My "DAB" tuner
spends all its time streaming internet radio these days.

R3 at 320kbps is as near perfect as makes no difference.

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+1 DAB inferior to FM

+1 DAB bitrate cut

+1 320Kbps is near perfect - as is 256K realistically and for most
even critical listeners 192K takes some beating.


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Woody

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