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DAB bubbling mud advice needed
Dear Marge.
It's not fair, I never get to hear this bubbling mud on DAB that everyone raves about. Perhaps it's my own fault for stupidly using an external DAB dipole to receive the following ensembles here in NN17 land. Ensemble Block Transmitter BBC National 12B Peterborough Digital One 11D Peterborough NOW Cambridge 11C Madingley NOW Leicester 11B Houghton-on-the-Hill NOW Nottingham 12C Waltham All are received at full or near full signal strength and an error rate of 0 with never a bubble to be heard In a desperate attempt to hear this legendary noise, I also made a coax dipole on a stick and hung it in the corner, sadly this didn't improve matters, Peterborough still comes blasting in at full strength with no bubbles. What can I do? -- Ken O'Meara http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/ |
DAB bubbling mud advice needed
"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message m... Dear Marge. It's not fair, I never get to hear this bubbling mud on DAB that everyone raves about. Perhaps it's my own fault for stupidly using an external DAB dipole to receive the following ensembles here in NN17 land. Ensemble Block Transmitter BBC National 12B Peterborough Digital One 11D Peterborough NOW Cambridge 11C Madingley NOW Leicester 11B Houghton-on-the-Hill NOW Nottingham 12C Waltham All are received at full or near full signal strength and an error rate of 0 with never a bubble to be heard In a desperate attempt to hear this legendary noise, I also made a coax dipole on a stick and hung it in the corner, sadly this didn't improve matters, Peterborough still comes blasting in at full strength with no bubbles. What can I do? Crosspost it Ken - it's the only certain way to get a thread started in ukra, these days.... |
DAB bubbling mud advice needed
Keith G said...
Crosspost it Ken - it's the only certain way to get a thread started in ukra, these days.... What! and get an earful from DABsworth and Philthy Phil? I was just indulging in a spot of spleen venting at the DAB bashers trotting out the bubbling mud objections again. I was going to add that I didn't find the sound quality too objectionable either but I hardly use it since they took Chill off the Cambridge multiplex and listen to speech progs mostly anyway so can only judge from casual listening recently. In fact the main reason I got one was to listen to Oneword which vanished soon after. The tuner is an Acoustic Solutions SP-110 http://goo.gl/b5lx I believe you have its big brother, I got mine as a managers special for £25 at the local Curries, no box or instructions, dropped and dented. So not too much pocket money wasted. It sounds a bit threadbare through its own outputs but is given quite a lift if I feed the optical through my Sony Minidisc. I mostly listen to tradio on Freeview now, being able to program a weeks listening/viewing via the EPG is super and the sound on both radio and TV is more than acceptable, nearly on a par with the sound I was getting from an Arcam Delta 150 NICAM tuner, if memory serves, as it has been retired to the cupboard for a couple of years now, and is up for adoption as I don't want to just bin it. I've tried offering it for free in the local paper, but no takers. If anyone wants to collect the poor thing from Corby and have superb TV sound until the great analogue switch off then email me or I'm in the BT phonebook. -- Ken O'Meara http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/ |
DAB bubbling mud advice needed
Well I am DAB less since my Pure Sonus 1 XT stopped working just before
Christmas. I will have to find out how to contact their repair centre, I guess they must have one? I don't want a new radio as the new ones don't speak the modes and such. If anyone has the number pray tell, their web site is completely useless and if you try to send them a message you have to be sighted it appears. Brian -- Brian Gaff - Note:- In order to reduce spam, any email without 'Brian Gaff' in the display name may be lost. Blind user, so no pictures please! "UnsteadyKen" wrote in message m... Keith G said... Crosspost it Ken - it's the only certain way to get a thread started in ukra, these days.... What! and get an earful from DABsworth and Philthy Phil? I was just indulging in a spot of spleen venting at the DAB bashers trotting out the bubbling mud objections again. I was going to add that I didn't find the sound quality too objectionable either but I hardly use it since they took Chill off the Cambridge multiplex and listen to speech progs mostly anyway so can only judge from casual listening recently. In fact the main reason I got one was to listen to Oneword which vanished soon after. The tuner is an Acoustic Solutions SP-110 http://goo.gl/b5lx I believe you have its big brother, I got mine as a managers special for £25 at the local Curries, no box or instructions, dropped and dented. So not too much pocket money wasted. It sounds a bit threadbare through its own outputs but is given quite a lift if I feed the optical through my Sony Minidisc. I mostly listen to tradio on Freeview now, being able to program a weeks listening/viewing via the EPG is super and the sound on both radio and TV is more than acceptable, nearly on a par with the sound I was getting from an Arcam Delta 150 NICAM tuner, if memory serves, as it has been retired to the cupboard for a couple of years now, and is up for adoption as I don't want to just bin it. I've tried offering it for free in the local paper, but no takers. If anyone wants to collect the poor thing from Corby and have superb TV sound until the great analogue switch off then email me or I'm in the BT phonebook. -- Ken O'Meara http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/ |
DAB bubbling mud advice needed
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:27:59 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
wrote: Well I am DAB less since my Pure Sonus 1 XT stopped working just before Christmas. I will have to find out how to contact their repair centre, I guess they must have one? I don't want a new radio as the new ones don't speak the modes and such. If anyone has the number pray tell, their web site is completely useless and if you try to send them a message you have to be sighted it appears. Brian No number, but their out-of-warranty repair service is handled at www.radiofix.co.uk/Portable.html They have a fixed price repair for your radio at £51.80. If you have a free postage label from Articles for the Blind, it is reduced to £44.00 d |
DAB bubbling mud advice needed
UnsteadyKen wrote:
Dear Marge. It's not fair, I never get to hear this bubbling mud on DAB that everyone raves about. Just got it on Radio 4 after I forgot to extend the aerial. Perhaps you could put your radio in a biscuit tin. -- Eiron. |
DAB bubbling mud advice needed
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:18:35 +0000, Eiron wrote:
UnsteadyKen wrote: Dear Marge. It's not fair, I never get to hear this bubbling mud on DAB that everyone raves about. Just got it on Radio 4 after I forgot to extend the aerial. Perhaps you could put your radio in a biscuit tin. Are you sure that wasn't just Sandi Toksvig talking? d |
DAB bubbling mud advice needed
More likely he was tuned to Talk Sport by mistake.
Brian -- Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________ "Don Pearce" wrote in message ... On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:18:35 +0000, Eiron wrote: UnsteadyKen wrote: Dear Marge. It's not fair, I never get to hear this bubbling mud on DAB that everyone raves about. Just got it on Radio 4 after I forgot to extend the aerial. Perhaps you could put your radio in a biscuit tin. Are you sure that wasn't just Sandi Toksvig talking? d |
DAB bubbling mud advice needed
"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message m... Keith G said... Crosspost it Ken - it's the only certain way to get a thread started in ukra, these days.... What! and get an earful from DABsworth and Philthy Phil? Ignore 'em.... The tuner is an Acoustic Solutions SP-110 http://goo.gl/b5lx I believe you have its big brother, Looks the same as mine, so I don't know about it being its 'big brother - perhaps they take the SP111s and hit them with a stick? I got mine as a managers special for £25 at the local Curries, no box or instructions, dropped and dented. There you are then!! :-) So not too much pocket money wasted. It sounds a bit threadbare through its own outputs but is given quite a lift if I feed the optical through my Sony Minidisc. My DAB is on all day and every day as 'sonic wallpaper' and it feeds into a Denon amp on a pair of the utterly remarkable 'Cyburg's Needles': http://www.greenie512.net/greenie512/html/needles.html ....which I think help no end, but I would say it sounds absolutely 'digital' - fine, mostly troublefree and possibly a little bland on CFM during the day, but it can sound very nice at low volume, late at night and R3 is always better if you can catch them actually playing a bit of music.... Yesterday I was listening to some very nice Duparc (Chanson Triste) and needed to shift camp, so moved onto my FM setup and was a little dismayed at the hiss for a few moments until I was able to 'tune it out'.... |
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