John Phillips wrote:
In article , DAB sounds
worse than FM wrote:
John Phillips wrote:

snip useful info about PulseKiller actually working

The Philips has 7-day EPG which the Pioneer does not. When using it
the sound is lost

That's not very good.

I have found that the sound comes back if you switch between the radio
guide and the TV guide (and remains when you switch back again).


Strange.


and I haven't yet worked out how to get any real
value out of it.

Isn't it useful for looking to see what's on later in the evening?

If the user interface were more friendly it might fulfil this function
(however I am beginning to get used to it). The designers seem to
have been over-intelligent geeks with a love of a quite
complex-looking (but very consistent) user interface with very pretty
but not very practical display design.


Doesn't surprise me.

BTW, the Pioneer DBRTF100 is due to get the EPG next week!:

http://www.dtg.org.uk/retailer/download_schedule.pl

(see 19/2/05 to 21/2/05)


The Pioneer treats all channels equally. The Philips has a separate
radio mode and TV mode.

For me the Philips is the better radio receiver.

Why?

I'm surprised at the question. It's my conclusion following the
comparison of features and performance earlier in the article.


Fair enough. I thought you meant that you thought that it was better in
general for radio, but you did qualify it as saying that it was better
for you. For example, I have heard the screetches you get on radio, but
they're so infrequent that it's not much of an issue.


Both have digital
audio outputs (Philips via coax and Pioneer via optical) which I
plug into my external DAC so I cannot comapre their internal DACs.

The Philips has phono analogue outputs as well. Have you tried it? It
doesn't matter if it'd be difficult to try, but I'd just be
interested to know what the quality was like relative to the digital
audio output.

It does. No I haven't. There are no analogue inputs on my audio kit
(even the analogue TV sound goes through an inexpensive ADC before it
hits the system


Wow!


- and note that going through that ADC would provide
no reliable information on the Philips DAC in isolation).


If the ADC is good, then surely the quality of the Philips DAC could be
easily determined? It should definitely be the weakest link in the
chain.


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