In article , Chris Isbell
wrote:
On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:55:33 +0100, Jim Lesurf
wrote:

The main advantage of a net radio for me is the availability of
foreign stations (like BR Klassik and France Musique) at reasonable
quality.

Are they not available as net streams you can pick up with your
computer? I know the AVRO stations and various other European Classical
ones are as I do listen to them occasionally.

Yes, I believe they are. However, it is likely that the satellite feed
will be of a better quality. (BR Klassik, for example, is 320kbps MP2.)
I take the digital output from the satellite receiver (its onboard
circuitry is audibly poor) through an external DAC, an amplifier and
Quad electrostatics ('57s).

Right. However I was asking about your comment re using net radio. I was
assuming from the context you were saying that BRK and France Musique were
an advantage for using a net radio device as the rx over using a computer,
etc.

Overall it is not at all bad - and I get to improve my German and French
listening skills to boot! (Swiss radio is best for this because the
announcers alternate between French and German.)

I've found all kinds of music on net stations with the announcements not in
English. Fortunately for me, the streams often have an accompanying set of
tags that label the content for when I don't recognise it! :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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