Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
The MP2 file is the raw bitstream recorded directly to hard drive.

Really. How did you interface a DAB tuner directly to your computer
HD?


All DAB, DVB-T and DVB-S PC cards record the raw bitstream directly to
the hard drive. For example, all the DTT products in these section do
this:

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/fr...eview_pc_cards
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/fr..._usb_receivers

and the PC products on here do too:

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/dsat_rx.htm


The FM was recorded from my Denon tuner via my sound card and then
encoded at high bit rate (VBR, IIRC).

You give the make of the tuner, but not the soundcard? Considering
most soundcards are the spawn of satan? On analogue?


Terratec EWX24/96. It's a good card. And yes, analogue.


, there are
splats on the DAB sample which you simply don't get in reality,

I know, relatively poor reception at the time.

Oh dear. Now I know my memory is poor, but I think I remember you
having a go at me when I suggested that *many* have poor FM
reception, the artifacts of which would be in the main sorted by DAB?


The poor reception was on DAB, not FM.


And that you said that my poor reception of FM - shared by about
1,000,000 others in South London


1,000,000 people share your bad FM reception? Have you carried out a
very large poll, or something?


- and gawd knows where else - made
my views worthless?


I know there are some bad reception areas for FM. My point, which you've
conveniently omitted or forgotten, is that just because a smallish
percentage of the population do have poor FM reception is not
justification to provide low audio quality on DAB. Do you disagree?

Just to add some facts which you are probably not aware of, this page
shows the number of stations that could be transmitted at 160kbps or
above:

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/wa...x_capacity.htm

Altogether, 183 stereo stations could be transmitted on DAB in the UK
and the only radio station that would have to be removed would be DNN,
which is the sorriest excuse for a radio station I've ever come across,
and I've never seen a good word said about it. To give you an indication
of just how ****e this station is, a few months ago someone said on
alt.radio.digital that it had been playing the previous day's news all
day; it's a news station, so you could say that its output wasn't
particularly good that day.....


But you try to prove your views by using a dreadful recording of both
DAB and FM on your website. WTF are you on?


At least I'm not defending the indefensible.


--
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

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