Re: First 112kbps station audio sample!

DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
> http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/samples/century_nw_112k.mp4 (605 KB)
>
> Now I defy anybody to say that that is transparent. Admittedly, if you
> owned a DAB portable radio then it might sound great, but on my hi-fi
> system that sounds crap.

I don't get the joke.

(It's an 80kbps 16kHz sampled AAC file, for anyone who didn't notice)

112kbps mp2 sounds like this...
http://www.david.robinson.org/audio/geniecut.mp2
though for DAB, it will be 48kHz, not 44.1k - which will actually make
it sound worse.

Cheers,
David.

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