Re: Bitrate capability of DAB radios

On 12/01/2012 12:07, tony sayer wrote:
In article<jei7oe$pak$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Silk<me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
scribeth thus


Don't be ridiculous. You know full well that R5 sounds excellent on DAB.
Either your ears are in need of medical attention or you're making
things up to cause an argument.

Err No...

I know what good speech should sound like. I am sometimes a well
equipped radio studio thanks...

Hummmm.... mp2 mono at 80kb/s
Well that ought to sound better than MW under most conditions.
As for excellent, well that may well depend upon the listeners point of view.

But what about all the other waste of space broadcasts, that broadcast audio so poor, it in unpleasant to listen to.






Unless its a 'bubblin and dropping and its always got that bitsless
sound..

How would you describe this imaginary "bitsless sound"?

Listen to it . Its an artificial sound, it doesn't appear in nature;(..

Have you parted company with your marbles? You're talking nonsense... again.

No just an excellent pair of MK 1 ears;)..

Compression artifacts don't appear in nature, as far as I'm aware lol.

As for on Radio 5. Actually I don't listen to it myself.
But I am toying with the idea of switching on my DAB hi-fi tuner, just to see exactly what it sounds like. I suspect that on a good sound system 80k would not be enough to get rid of all the artifacts, even in mono. In car is a bit of different matter, 80k mono ought to sound good enough for speech broadcasts for most people. But as for excellent, I think that may be a bit of a biased judgement. And besides, what about all the music stations that sound dreadful on DAB?

Richard E.
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