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Don Pearce wrote:
The argument for this heavy compression tends to be car listening. Yet I
seem to manage hearing what I want to in the cars on R4 which doesn't do
this. And the heavy compression that LBC etc use simply puts me off ever
listening to them.


The DAB standard had this built in at the receiving end, so you could
listen in a car with heavy compression but still enjoy full dynamic
range at home. This seems to have disappeared.

Yes - it's in the spec, but don't know if it has ever been used by a
broadcaster. It certainly makes sense.

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