"tony sayer" wrote
The only prog on DAB worthy of serious listening quality is BBC radio 3
at 192K bits.
Ah....
I would have agreed with you up 'til this morning or perhaps have argued
that R2 is so 'in yer face' it also appears to sound OK(ish)....??
But, having had 'Prime Time' on all morning with stuff like 'There's a
pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.' (whatever it's properly
called) and 'Put another nickel in' (my little Nickelodeon) coming at me
like top quality AM from way back (when life was good), I'm prepared to
widen my 'angle of acceptability' a tad.
The *fun* element has skated right over any concerns about quality and it
has been a blast - perfect background music for dilling around, avoiding
doing anything *actually* useful....!! :-)
Freeview and satellite match this, but allow higher bit
rates on the other services. The DAB portable is, well just that, a
portable with small speakers because there isn't much to hide
!(..
FWIW, the one I've got sounds perfectly fine as a 'little trannie' in a
'little trannie' sort of way. It's not as 'tinny' as a lot of 'tinny
trannies' I've heard in my time!! :-)
(Academic to me though - I've got it going through my system, using the Line
Out which is how I will use it mostly....)
Mind you, if you really want more very high quality audio a digital
satellite receiver, NOT a Sky digibox, with a dual LNB can be had for
less than that sort of money. Enjoy the delights of France Musique,
Bayern4 Klassick, Concertzender, NDR kulture, hr Klassick and not to
mention Paris Jazz, Swiss Jazz and Berlin Jazz, they even have outside
broadcasts from the Marriot hotel on the Potsdamer Platz!. When's the
last time the English Smooth/Jazz FM did that?.
Thats real radio, and that Orgelkonzert the other week from Bayern as
good as a CD
where the missing bits from linear PCM to 256 K were more
than made up with the German engineering standards..
Absolutely stunning)
Sounds all very temptatious but when would anyone get the bloody time to
listen to it??
****es all over UK T-DAB...
Why, even our Keith could get a dish hidden out in his yard somewhere
I won't rule it out. Whilst I'm not *happy* about it - this little DABchick
is such a sweetie (couple of obscure puns in there for the thickies...) and
so damned handy I think I'm about to drop me kecks and grease up for
'digital radio' generally....
I see it being rather like the digital camera I've got - I don't think it is
as good (deep down) as a decent 'film camera' other than it's as handy as a
Swiss Army knife and in the couple of years I've had it, I appear to have
taken.....
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wait for it......
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summat like 50,000 pix!!!
Can't be right, but check the 'filenames' of these, my first and last shots
to date:
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/L1000001.jpg
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/L1050801.jpg
????
(I don't believe it myself!!)
A final point - when one has a lot of valve gear and turntables 'flat
surfaces' are at a premium and 'stacking' is out of the question. A 'tuner'
isn't much use to me and I wouldn't now want to be without the 'portability'
of the little radio I've got. Anyone wanting to get into DAB would, I think,
be well advised to consider something similar rather than dropping an
unnecessarily large amount of money on a so-called 'audiophile' slice of
'hifi' kit. I've had the Technics DAB tuner (on and off) and I don't think
there's really any difference. (How could there be - it's 'digital'...!!!)
NP: Walking Back To Happiness (Helen Shapiro?)
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:-)
Yabba DABba doo!! :-)
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