In article , Don Pearce
scribeth thus
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:33:22 +0100, Jim Lesurf
wrote:

In article , froggy
wrote:
Le 04/09/2010 18:46, David Pitt a écrit :
Jim Lesurf wrote:

Surprised no-one else seems to have mentioned this here yet. :-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/audioexperiment/

There is a thread on alt.radio.digital.



Jim,

Perhaps you could use your vast influence at the Beeb [:-)]

sic :-)

so that this "experiment" continues after the The Last Night!

TBH at present I've not decided if for me 320k gives a satisfactory
trade-off between reliability of stream connection and quality. Dunno about
you, but so far, each time I've tried the current experimental stream I get
drop outs on average about once or twice an hour (about 1 sec lost each
time) which rather disrupts listening to a long piece of music. Wheras at
128k or 192k I almost never get such dropouts.

Slainte,

Jim

How is your broadband connection though? I pay a little extra for the
professional option from Plusnet. It guarantees maximum line bandwidth
on all ports and services. I was downloading the latest TomTom Western
Europe map the other day, and had the network monitor running to see
how it was going. Here is what the monitor made of most of the
transfer.

http://www.soundthoughts.co.uk/look/adsl.png

Rock solid 16Mb/sec and no dropouts. That is about 1GByte on that
display. That makes light work of 320kb/sec.

d

Lucky you!. Here we're on VM and very good that is too, their 10 meg
service, does all we need they can do a 20 and a 50 IIRC, but there are
people less than three miles from Cambridge who can barely muster 1 Meg
whilst paying for 8 on god ole BT ally cable;(...

If the BBC wanted to improve their digital broadcasting then UP the
rates on Freeview and Freesat, as I might have muttered before the
Germans can manage 334 K for their Klassik service why can't olde auntie
BBC.

OK, this is a step in the right direction and as time goes on the net
may become the platform of choice, well until theres a lot more Fibre to
the home or nearer.. like what VM do.

And then theres the net connection and PC to the living room or place
when the good audio system is. I have got a satellite receiver that has
got LAN facilities on but its not too easy to get that to decode the
stream required and fortunately we have a house wired for CAT 5 and a 24
port switch most domestic premises aren't so well equipped and Radio on
2.4 or 5.8 is OK but in some premises the interference experienced
nowadays is limiting..

And for most a noisy PC added to the living room complement, whereas a
digital sat receiver is quite commonplace and a much easier way of
receiving the higher quality "Radio" Broadcast signals...
--
Tony Sayer