In article , Justin Sellors
wrote:

"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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Firstly, I am now of the opinion that the best way to get Proms is via
the 320k stream. To me this delivers better results in general than
any traditional broadcasting route I've used.

Re. your first point Jim, have you heard the uncompressed OGG/FLAC
broadcasts from Ceský rozhlas D-Dur?

No. Thanks for pointing it out. I'll give it a try

http://radio.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac I gather it's still
experimental, but seems to have been going for a couple of years.

I recently heard one of their own recordings of a Schubert Winterreise
performance by a couple of young Czechs that sounded thrillingly
life-like on my Linkwitz Orion open baffle loudspeakers.



I'm using Foobar2000 on Windows to twiddle the bits, but I imagine
mplayer could be tweaked to play it in Linux.


Just tried with interesting results. My copy of audiacious failed to
play the stream. (It plays local flac OK.) I may have made an error,
so I'll try again sometime.

Happily, ffplay plays the stream with no problems if I just use

ffplay http://radio.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac

in a terminal. Results in a 48k sample rate, so if that is the true
source rate (i.e. not upconverted somewhere from 44.1k) then it may
well be technically better than Radio 3. (A confusing factor here
is that the BBC tend to resample at the drop of a hat.)

Since you wrote "OGG/FLAC" I also tried '.ogg' and that also gets
a stream. Not checked yet, but I assume that it means that both
stream types are available, not that the stream codec changes without
the name extention altering.


A secondary advantage for me is that if I listen to classical music from
a source that broadcasts in a language I don't understand, I'm
insulated from the constant mediation of experience that Radio Three
now indulges in. I don't feel my enjoyment of a piece of music is
enhanced by being jollied along by the announcer. OK, I'm a Grumpy Old
Man.

You are not entirely alone. :-)


Slainte,

Jim

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