Re: "Debate" about DAB on Radio 4 Now

conkersack@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> FM still wipes the floor with DAB, so stick with that.
>
> Yep, I do. My ipod-alike has it's songs encoded at 192kbps vbr (or
> whatever it should be properly called)


Yes, VBR is the correct term.


> and that is miles better than
> dab,


Absolutely. DAB uses MP2, and MP2 at 128kbps is approximately equivalent
to 80kbps or 96kbps MP3. Nobody ever encodes MP3s to 80kbps or 96kbps,
and that shows what a disgrace DAB is.


> which is frankly hideous for most songs - it burbles like they
> are being played from a half submerged speaker.
>
> I haven't got the worlds greatest ears but I can tell what sounds crap
> and what sounds acceptable.


At the end of the day, it is obvious how crap DAB sounds.


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