"Dave Plowman" wrote in message
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In article ,
The EggKing wrote:
I believe good reception of an FM broadcast is far superior (FAR
superior) to a DAB broadcast. If only for the simple reason the
signal
is everything else before it is sent for DAB transmission anyway. It
can
never be better.

Under most circumstances the entire chain as far as the FM transmitter
is
digital.

They do still occasionally play those funny round black plastic discs by
dragging a needle across them. Can't quite remember what they're called
but they were allegedly quite popular at one time.


DAB is capable of giving superb results. Unfortunately, the bean
counters
want to squeeze too many stations into the available bandwidth, but at
the
moment R3 is ok.
I don't think it was the "bean counters" that made that decision as far
as the BBC goes. It was a senior management decision about "serving
audiences beyond the editorial range of the services already available".
Unfortunately the current management think that sound quality that's
good enough for them is good enough for everybody and anyone that
disagrees is an "audiophile".

A DTTV box is perhaps a cheaper way of getting good R3
without paying a fortune.

Or spending a few quid on a decent external aerial.


--
RobH
The future's dim, the future's mono.