I'd like to get the increased number of radio channels broadcast by DAB
(although I fear that they'll just be more dumbed-down BBC drivel) but
what I've heard of it so far doesn't make me want to pay much for the
privilege! I've only heard three DAB tuners, but in all of them the
audio quality is poorer than FM. (Except on R3, and it would be useful
to get a SPDIF feed to my minidisc to record Late Junction, so perhaps a
DAB tuner would be useful for this.)

The only prog on DAB worthy of serious listening quality is BBC radio 3
at 192K bits. Freeview and satellite match this, but allow higher bit
rates on the other services. The DAB portable is, well just that, a
portable with small speakers because there isn't much to hide!(..

A Freeview feed might be better, but I'm a Luddite who doesn't have a
television, and if I put an antenna up, Blair's thought police will be
round asking why I don't have a licence to watch the BBC relaying his
party's propaganda streams.

Thats up 2 U. But you'd be far better off spending you money on a cheap
DTV freeview receiver, assuming you have an aerial and are served by a
DTV transmitter. ASDA have one for around 39 quid, and very good for
that money it is too..

If I bought a DAB tuner, what's the consensus regarding a reasonable
one? (Not too much money, less than £250 if possible)

As above for serious listening their ****e. Reduced MP2 bit rates make
for **** poor audio quality. It doesn't really matter about whet the
receiver can do Chris, the qualities fecked long before it gets to you.


Mind you, if you really want more very high quality audio a digital
satellite receiver, NOT a Sky digibox, with a dual LNB can be had for
less than that sort of money. Enjoy the delights of France Musique,
Bayern4 Klassick, Concertzender, NDR kulture, hr Klassick and not to
mention Paris Jazz, Swiss Jazz and Berlin Jazz, they even have outside
broadcasts from the Marriot hotel on the Potsdamer Platz!. When's the
last time the English Smooth/Jazz FM did that?.

Thats real radio, and that Orgelkonzert the other week from Bayern as
good as a CD where the missing bits from linear PCM to 256 K were more
than made up with the German engineering standards..

Absolutely stunning)

****es all over UK T-DAB...


Why, even our Keith could get a dish hidden out in his yard somewhere
--
Tony Sayer