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**bugbear** · January 17th 06, 10:09 AM posted to uk.rec.audio

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1687880,00.html

BugBear

**Mike O'Sullivan** · January 17th 06, 05:08 PM posted to uk.rec.audio

bugbear wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1687880,00.html

"DAB gives CD-quality sound if you reach a bit-rate of 192,000 bits a
second (192kb/s)"

This is wrong isn't it? Isn't the CD bitrate 256k/bs?

**Arny Krueger** · January 17th 06, 05:24 PM posted to uk.rec.audio

"Mike O'Sullivan" wrote in message
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bugbear wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1687880,00.html

"DAB gives CD-quality sound if you reach a bit-rate of 192,000 bits a
second (192kb/s)"

This is wrong isn't it? Isn't the CD bitrate 256k/bs?

As they say: do the math:

2 channels times 44,100 samples per second times 16 bits per samples is???

1,411,200 bits per second.

**bugbear** · January 18th 06, 01:56 PM posted to uk.rec.audio

Arny Krueger wrote:
"Mike O'Sullivan" wrote in message
...

bugbear wrote:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1687880,00.html

"DAB gives CD-quality sound if you reach a bit-rate of 192,000 bits a
second (192kb/s)"

This is wrong isn't it? Isn't the CD bitrate 256k/bs?

As they say: do the math:

2 channels times 44,100 samples per second times 16 bits per samples is???

1,411,200 bits per second.

Further to the OP's question, DAB is compressed, and CD is raw.

So one would expect the DAB rate to be lower. The big question
is (of course) how much lower.

BugBear

**hwh** · January 18th 06, 06:08 PM posted to uk.rec.audio

"Mike O'Sullivan" schreef in bericht
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bugbear wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1687880,00.html

"DAB gives CD-quality sound if you reach a bit-rate of 192,000 bits a
second (192kb/s)"

This is wrong isn't it? Isn't the CD bitrate 256k/bs?

CD is about 1,4 Mbps. DAB does not give anything like CD quality at 192
kbps. At 256 kbps most people won't notice much difference, so you could
call that "near CD" quality.

gr, hwh