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Old January 17th 06, 05:24 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
Arny Krueger
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Default The Guardian on digital radio


"Mike O'Sullivan" wrote in message
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bugbear wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1687880,00.html

"DAB gives CD-quality sound if you reach a bit-rate of 192,000 bits a
second (192kb/s)"

This is wrong isn't it? Isn't the CD bitrate 256k/bs?


As they say: do the math:

2 channels times 44,100 samples per second times 16 bits per samples is???

1,411,200 bits per second.