Re: Bitrate capability of DAB radios

In article <jed7m6$r65$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, J G Miller <miller@xxxxxxxx>
scribeth thus
On Sunday, January 8th, 2012, at 21:32:45h +0000, Richard Evans wrote:

Also in poor signal areas, in door DAB reception tends to
be a lot poorer than FM reception.

Depends on what you mean by poor.

Regardless of the sound quality of what DAB offers,
DAB reception is generally much more robust than FM reception,
provided that there is sufficient signal strength.

Which is the same as saying

"FM reception is robust providing there is sufficient signal strength"


With a weak signal, you will get hiss on FM especially
for sterephonic reception which requires a much higher
level of signal than for monophonic reproduction,

Whereas FM will commute it to mono if it hasn't enough signal strength.



whereas
on DAB you will either get the "perfect" reception and
no hiss, borderline bubbling mud, or no reception at all.

And more likely these days Mono, and a rather "perfickly" received
sodded up audio..
--
Tony Sayer

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