On 09/11/2015 16:52, Jim Lesurf wrote:


Indeed. And so far as I know, the BBC still use NICAM for the distribution
for FM. Hence it is digital with a 32k sample rate and less than 16 bits
per sample. So nominally 'worse than Audio CD'. Yet can sound fine. People
ceased being able to hear an all-analogue FM chain decades ago.

Maybe fewer than 16 bits but it's almost a floating point encoding
so gives better resolution at low levels than you might think.

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Eiron.