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Chris Isbell wrote:
You must have either a poor tuner, or a dodgy multipath'ed signal, or a
duff transmitter.

Can't say I've noticed anything amiss..until the other day;(

You could well be right. However, I believe that NICAM uses
compression - dynamically changing the range covered by the 11 bits
according to the signal level. I had therefore tended to put down the
effects I can hear on transients to NICAM compression artifacts.

TV NICAM uses 11 bit companded (which equates to 14 bit), but IIRC the
NICAM distribution system to radio transmitters ain't quite the same. I'll
see if I can dig out details.

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