"Mike O'Sullivan" wrote in message
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I normally listen on FM of course, but yesterday I checked on the bit rate
on Radio 4 yesterday morning and it was 128 kbps. Noticeably inferior to
FM.

FM doesn't have a "bit rate", so it's meaningless to say that 128kb/s is
"noticeably inferior" to it.

Or perhaps you mean that the sound quality was "noticeably inferior"?, in
what way?, and what scientific listening tests did you set up to determine
it?

I have noticed that this thread seems to be afflicted by a similar
phenomenon to digital camera "megapixelitis", when it's the number of
megapixels that matter, not the quality of the pictures.

David.