Re: Bitrate capability of DAB radios

On 10/01/2012 20:41, Silk wrote:


Don't be ridiculous. You know full well that R5 sounds excellent on DAB.

I'm listening to it right now on my DAB hi-fi tuner.
The high end is very lacking, and there is also a weird distortion at the top end.

I thought perhaps this might be due to a poor quality feed, so I tried comparing with the IPlayer stream, using my Squeezebox.
On the Iplayer stream, the high end is also lacking, so that part may well be a poor feed, however Iplayer does not have any of the weird distortions at the top end.

Based upon this, in my opinion, R5Live does sound acceptable on DAB, but it is a long way from being excellent.

Richard E.
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