On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:27:30 +0100, Andrew wrote:

On 17/04/2019 11:22, Max Demian wrote:
On 16/04/2019 23:24, wrote:
Hi All,

There was a discussion on the FB self help forum for Peugeot 1007
owners recently...

Someone said the standard radio fitted was mono Someone else said
stereo,mono,stereo,mono....

After a while he clarified,?and said certainly the UK Models have CD
Radios where the CD is stereo, but the tuner is mono.

Is this common?

Is it penny pinching?

Does it give a better S/N ratio?

Stereo car radios usually use stereo/mono blend on FM so as reception
worsens the stereo effect is reduced rather than getting hissy. In a
poor reception area the stereo FM would /sound/ mono which might be the
cause of the confusion.


In a tin can like a Pug 1007, by the time you have got to 50mph you
won't hear much detail from the radio anyway.

A match made in heaven as far as low bit rate DAB is concerned. DAB is
basically a low quality broadcasting system designed to match the equally
low quality listening environments it was optimised for.

The egregious aspect of DAB was in its marketing claims that it could
replace the old and tried FM broadcasting system in all usage cases.
Clearly, once the bean counters had taken advantage of the cost cutting
low bandwidth options inherent to the system, this rapidly (and with
obscene haste) became yet another "Lie by omission advertising
claim" (which is at the heart of pretty well all commercial advertising -
"The large print giveth, whilst the small print taketh away." principle).

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Johnny B Good