"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
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The main problem is that DAB is simply a ridiculously inefficient
system


Just to give you an idea of how inefficient DAB is, the new DVB-T2
system is TEN TIMES as efficient as DAB - i.e. DVB-T2 can carry 10
times as many radio statinos at the same level of audio quality as DAB
in the same amount of bandwidth.

And transmission costs are inversely proportional to efficiency, so
the cost of transmitting a station on DVB-T2 would be TEN TIMES lower
than the cost of transmitting at the same level of audio quality on
DAB.

Because the cost is so much lower, if we had used DVB-T2 instead of
the ridiculously inefficient DAB system then there's no chance that
we'd have a problem with audio quality. We have a problem with the
audio quality BECAUSE we use DAB.


--
Steve - www.savefm.org - stop the BBC bullies switching off FM

www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - digital radio news & info

"It is the sheer volume of online audio content available via
internet-connected devices which terrifies the UK radio industry. I
believe that broadband-delivered radio will explode in the years to
come, offering very local, unregulated content, as well as opening a
window to the radio stations of the world." - from the Myers Report