In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , 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.

That's possible, yes. I've asked in the past but never been able to find
out for sure. Although more than one BBC person has told me they think it
still is NICAM for FM distribution.

Jim

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