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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.

Dunno, Jim. The transmission side of the BBC was out sourced many years
ago. So may have changed things to commercial PCM equipment for
distribution too.

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