Eiron wrote:
DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:

DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:

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Doh, wrong group, sorry.

Why should it be the wrong group?


Because I meant to send it to another, but I was just being dozy.


It's a question about audio in the
UK. How can you tell the audio bitrate? I don't recall seeing any
such info on my satellite receiver.


You need a digital satellite PC card.


It does prompt the question of what would happen if I connect the
optical digital out on a SkyPlus box to the optical digital in
on my PC sound card. Anyone tried it with either stereo or 5.1?


You'd get a constant 2 x 16-bit x 48000 = 1.536 Mbps constant bit rate,
but that's linear PCM being transferred across S/PDIF. The bit rate I'm
referring to is the raw compressed MPEG bit rate. See:

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/in...bit_rate_table

because it is the bit rate that sets the nominal audio quality level.


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