Hmm, have you listened to the local bbc stations on the internet? the levels
are all over the place and most I think are still in mono.

I remember reading about the idea of local compression indeed Philips before
they lost interest in domestic kit had a demo which a friend of mine went to
and was quite impressed. At that time nobody had heard the boiling mud issue
it has to be said.

Brian

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"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , Don Pearce
wrote:

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.

If I recall correctly, the flag for this *and* the compression gain values
have to be provided with the broadcast stream. I'm not sure if
broadcasters
bother, but then I don't use DAB much!

FWIW though, the BBC are trying to move towards having no added level
compressions on their internet radio streams. This point emerged recently
when I was talking to someone about recent/current developments which are
moving towards *all* their radio streams being available as 320k for AOD
as
well as live. (At least in the UK!)


Jim

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