"tony sayer" wrote in message
...
In article , just me
writes
It's a comparative thing. The DAC on my DAB tuner (Sony STD777es)
sounds
inferior then when compared with the sound whilst connected through
the
DAC
of the Arcam Black Box 500. I would assume that lesser DAB tuners
would
also
benefit in this manner. Yes the bitrate of the transmission has a
large
bearing on the sound, but then so does the DAC. When I buy a new
Freeview
box with digital output next month I should benefit from the superior
bitrates seemingly available via this platform with some broadcasts.

Yes better, but NICAM and FM still sound better.....

Not really relevant though. No UK radio transmissions employ NICAM (do
they
elsewhere?) whilst the radio services offered via Freeview aren't
available
on FM.

NICAM is used to feed the main FM transmitters in the UK well BBC ones.

I should have been more specific, but I think it was clear I was refering to
domestic broadcast services and not network operations.

The extra radio channels on freeview are not available on FM as you
rightly point out. However freeview does use higher transmission rates
then T-DAB..

Which takes us back to my previous point, "When I buy a new Freeview
box with digital output next month I should benefit from the superior
bitrates seemingly available via this platform with some broadcasts"