"chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy"
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Keith G wrote:

"chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h
offy"
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Oh, that's interesting. I'd been thinking of getting a cheap portable
DAB radio (thinking about the Bush one for £50 at Aldi's just now.) How
does it compare to the R3 broadcast you get on Freeview? I've recorded
a
few of them, and the quality was good. Not CD quality, but I thought it
compared well with good quality FM recordings. Is it really not worth
buying a DAB radio? The portability is important.


So buy a portable DAB then - who cares about the nth degree of *quality*
for
'music on the move'???

True- but I wouldn't always be listening to it on noisy trains (or the
atrociously noisy Manchester trams!) where it wouldn't make a difference
at all.


Trains and trams is going to rule out Freeview, aint it??


(And at 50 quid FFS!) Better to get 100% of a
'reasonably good' signal to have a supposedly better one (?) coming and
going, isn't it?

Sure, but I'd probably be interested in recording some stuff onto my
laptop from it. I was just wondering how the quality would compare to
freeview, that's all. I'm probably still going to buy it!


Keep it simple - grab the DAB for portable and get a cheap but good
secondhand FM tuner (if you've still got a signal where you live) for
recordings, no....?

(There's 66 FM tuners on eBay right now with prices from ONE PENNY atm:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Teac-T-R450-FM...c mdZViewItem

- plus a bit of postage, of course!!)