Re: Another Pure DAB+-upgradeable clock radio

Silk wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:38:50 +0000, DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:

You can always dream.

I'm sure we can reach a consensus here.


No, we can't.


Even you have to have your
doubts that DAB+ will mean better quality in the long term, if you're
honest with yourself.


I'm afraid I have absolutely no doubts whatsoever that due to the use of the
extraordinarily efficient AAC+ codec instead of the extraordinarily
terrible, unbelievably inefficient and quite simply incompetently designed
MP2 audio codec, DAB+ will provide far superior audio quality overall than
is provided on DAB. And if you think anything other than that then we won't
be seeing eye to eye. End of story.

At the end of the day, Steve, you haven't got the first idea about how these
codecs work, or what level of audio quality AAC+ provides - you tried it out
by listening to some crap examples of Internet radio stations, and then you
refused to listen to the better quality Internet stations when they were
pointed out to you, IIRC.

Go and play air guitar or whatever it is you rock fans do in your spare
time, there's a good lad.



--
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info


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