Glenn Richards wrote:

Keith G wrote:

Anybody care to claim 'digital radio' or 'digital TV' is sharper than
analogue?

Digital radio *should* be clearer and more dynamic.

How so ?


Unfortunately
because of the highly limited bitrates on DAB it isn't.

That's part of it for sure.


Digital TV... well our analogue signal here is pretty appalling, so it's
a choice of a snowy 4:3 picture with NICAM dropping out... or a clean
and clear 16:9 picture with MPEG (or better still AC3) audio off digital
satellite.

Which has nothing to do with analogue per se.


Yes, visual compression artefacts are sometimes irritating. But less so
than constant analogue snow.

When digital fails there's simply no usable picture at all. You totally lose
'soft degradation'.


With audio however... well I was playing some old records - Rega Planar
3, Ortofon cart (can't remember the model no but it's the £55 one),
Pro-Ject Phono Box II, Arcam AVR-250, Mordaunt-Short Avant 7.1 speaker
system - and my thoughts were "I've never heard CD sound this good".

Probably because you never tried hard enough ?


In
fact... the pops and crackle are part of the sound with vinyl. It's great!

It's truly horrid ! Thank goodness for banishing both of those to the dustbin of
history.

Graham