Re: Expert tears DAB to pieces in Norwegian newspaper

davidrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
gboraman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Kristoff Bonne wrote:
Gegroet,
DAB sounds worse than FM schreef:
A digital radio expert has torn DAB to pieces in the Norwegian
version of the Financial Times:

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/digital_radio_expert_tears_dab_to_pieces.pdf

[snip]

Oh ....thats too funny!

In Steve's little had he is 'winning'! Despite spinning this little
non-story to an extent that Alistair Campbell would be proud of -
everyone else is guilty - and Steve is unquestionably correct and
fair in every way!

Is that the 'Special Needs' Bus I can hear pulling up outside his
bedsit?

The Geezer

Dear Mr Geezer,

Thank you for so decisively demolishing the arguments of Steve.


I have to admit that I had to go off and have a cry after reading Greg's
incisive post earlier. And especially after he said there was a Special
Needs bus coming to collect me. I actually looked out of the window to see
if it was coming, then realised he'd got one over on me yet again and I
burst out crying again. He's really mean on me.


Following your detailed and analytical post, I can now see how the DAB
system launched in the UK in 1995 is _the_ future of radio, and should
be adopted throughout the world.

How silly of some countries to consider newer systems which are more
efficient, and so cheaper to run whilst delivering more stations at
higher quality. Why would anyone want that?! Sub-FM quality and
limited choice - that's the way to compete with iPods and the
internet!

Please do keep responding to Steve's posts with irrelevant comments of
a personal nature - this is clearly the best way to respond to someone
whose comments are based on, er, facts.

Best Regards,
David.

P.S. if you want to remind us again that only a small minority is
interested in quality, then that's fine. I won't disagree. I'll just
laugh that this is the best argument you can find for UK DAB: "Lot's
of people can't tell how bad it really is".


Nooo, his favourite suggestion is the one about most people that complain
about DAB complain about the time difference between DAB and FM, so as more
people complain about that than the dreadful audio quality the audio quality
isn't a problem.

That's like saying that the vast majority of people that complain about loan
sharks complain about the incredibly high interest they charge, therefore
the fact that some people get their legs broken by loan sharks isn't a
problem, because not as many people complain about it.


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