"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:

I will run this little puppy and see how I get on with 'DAB'. If I can
overcome my own 'prejudices' and learn to love it, I will consider
summat with a little more 'inbuilt quality' and recording/time shift
facilites at a later date


Remember that the bit rates of the radio stations on Freeview, digital
satellite and cable are higher than on DAB, so the audio quality is also
higher than on DAB.

For archiving digital radio the best thing you can get is a Freeview or
digital satellite PC card, because they stream the received MPEG bitstream
directly to your hard drive.



Thanks for all that Steve, but I'm not into serious 'archiving' - just would
like to be able to 'time slip' the 'Performance on 3' evening concerts on R3
(Messiaen tomorrow :-), they always start just a bit too early for me at
7:30....

The 'Bug' has apparently suitable SD card facilities - how long before they
appear on a 'less wacky' bit of kit???

(Note I didn't say 'higher quality'.... ;-)