You can quite plainly hear the gritty digital sound on mono stations like
talk sport and lbc, the medium wave relay, not so much the fm relay on dab.

Also, some of the mono stations which carry music are sounding decidedly
naff. bbc 7 is still in mono it appears and increasingly so is r4. These
obviously prove the fact that bandwidth is a problem. they obviously did
not take heed of that universal law about junk expanding to fill any vacant
space. Its as true with data and bandwidth, unfortunately.

Brian

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"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
scribeth thus
In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
If thats all you need and the claimed perfick DAB reception isn't up to
it then why bother with DAB?. If you follow most any DAB forum apart
from poor audio quality, OK not that much of a problem for a bathroom
radio, the biggest gripe is power consumption and hence battery life!..

R3 uses a higher data rate than any other and is likely to sound just
fine. As will R4 being mainly speech.
I also wonder just how many would notice the other stations low data rate
on a portable. My guess is very, very few. Especially in a blind test. ;-)


Thats about all its good for portable listening, provided you've got the
battery belt to go with it;!...
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