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David Looser wrote:
Where I live in East Anglia, MW is pretty much useless. The only station
I can at anything approaching usable quality is BBC World Service,
everything else is buried under a mush of interference. OTOH I do get
excellent BBC FM from a transmitter just a few miles away and I also use
digital satellite for stations that aren't on FM. Until recently I had
never listened to DAB, but I bought my daughter a DAB radio for
Christmas (she's a fan of BBC7) and I was pleasantly surprised at how
good it sounded after seeing DAB regularly rubbished here.

Indeed. But of course it's fashionable to slag off DAB - even from those
who normally listen to their music off low bitrate MP3, etc. To say
128kbps DAB sounds worse than MW is simply nonsense and does no credit to
its opponents.

I also wonder how many who say 'internet' radio sounds better than DAB are
comparing like for like. Do they have a DAB tuner fed into the same sound
system as their PC? Or are they comparing their PC sound system to a DAB
portable radio?

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Dave Plowman London SW
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