"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Jim Lesurf
wrote:
Pop radio however is never happy unless their modulation levels are
at near constant peak.

For me, the curio is the modulation level on BBC World Service, both
on DAB and on DTTV. This is well above that for, e.g. R4. I can
appreciate that an HF AM broadcast might benefit from squashing right
up to full mod, but I can't quite see the point here on DTTV and
DAB... Makes me wonder if they are just supplying DTTV/DAB with the
same pre-compressed feed that is sent for use for HF around the world.

Only time I really listen to WS is after R4 closes down, and on DAB it
sounds truly diabolical. I've heard better 8-bit digital. ;-)

So have I. :-) However where I live the DAB WS is still far better than
on MW or HF. For large parts of the day it is essentially unreivable here
on MW/HF, and when it is, it generally suffers from all the defects of
long
distance MW/HF. Whistles, other stations in the background, multipath
'phasing' effects, fading to nothing, etc, etc. Hence compared with these,
the DAB WS is superb - at least for documentaries and news.



DAB you *can* get is always gonna beat other wavebands you can't get...!!
;-)