On 2005-07-23, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Jim Lesurf wrote:
FWIW Preliminary listening gives me the impression that the (1) BBCTV4
DTTV sound is better than the (2) BBC R3 DTTV sound.

To the best of my knowledge, BBC4 simply takes a clean feed of the R3
music balance and adds its own presenters, etc.

From listening to Elgar's "The Dream of Gerontius" this evening
("simultaneous" on Radio3 and BBC4) my impression is that:

* The BBC4/DTTV audio level is much higher than the audio level on
Radio3/DTTV. After adjusting the levels I have the same impression
as Jim, but the comparison is too difficult to be sure (I have to
adjust manually on switching).

* I cannot distinguish the audio on Radio3/DTTV from the audio on
Radio3/DAB (except that DTTV is more fragile from impulse
interference).

Is BBC4/DTTV broadcast at 256 kbit/s in comparison to 192 kbit/s on
Radio3/DTTV and Radio3/DAB?

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John Phillips