"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Michael Chare Munderscor
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Classical FM is only decent channel missing

It is however available by satellite. There are also a couple of good German
stations: Bayern 4 Klassik and HR Klassik on Astra 1

Yep excellent except that Radio 3 and Classic FM are over on ASTRA at
28.2 east whilst Bayern and HR are on ASTRA 19.2 bit of a bummer but
nowt two LNB's and an offset arm and Diseq switch won't sort out

Get another on Hotbird at 13 east and even more comes out of the wood
work. France Musique even, at 256 K BBC please note...some hope..

France Musique is also on Astra1 - I dont know the bit rate - or how to find
what the bit rate is!




Quite a number of satellite receivers provide a digital audio output. So far
I
have found very little HiFi equipment that will accept a digital input. -
Suggestions welcome.

Err No not really;( Audiolab do a nice DAC but thats not cheap Behringer
do a Rackmount one but that doesn't look that good in the living room..

Thanks.

However there is still a lot of snobbishness around having a satellite
dish. Our neighbour loves Jazz and when I told him that he could get
around 3 good Jazz stations on sat, he looked downcast when I told him
he would "have" to have a dish!.....

People associate satellite TV with Sky (and maybe football).

Not helped by the BBC 'how to get satellite' web page which says 'call sky'.
(Not such a bad deal if you dont mind the phone connection). There are very few
satellite equipment shops. Very little advertising of the Non sky options and
what there is tends to be for porn.

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Michael Chare