On 24/06/2017 00:29, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
NY wrote:
NICAM really was the dog's ********. Damn good reproduction compared
with MPEG-2 at 256 or 192 kbps which is still good but can sound
slightly raspy.

You do realise it was 11 bit companded? CD being 16 bit?


I don't think MPEG-2 was even an audio standard.
It was MPEG layer 3 that was the audio standard and that was abbreviated
to MP3 so you can guess how poor that sounded.

11 bit companded is likely to sound better than MP3 but not CD.