I'm going with '66 true mono and '69 faux stereo, due to the studio's reluctance to invest in new stereo recording equipment versus the record company's greed to cash-in on the expanding stereo replay market.
Hopefully EAC will have created left and right channels which are effectively the same due to being from a singular mono source.
All a bit academic now. The conversion sounds okay to my ears, on my equipment, in my room. Job done and move on I guess.

Managed to download SoX despite http://sox.sourceforge.net/ currently experiencing problems, "The sourceforge.net website is temporarily in static offline mode. Only a very limited set of project pages are available until the main website returns to service."
http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourcefo...e-restoration/

http://sourceforge.net/ allowed me to search for "SoX" leading me to http://sourceforge.net/directory/os:...updated/?q=SoX and http://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/?source=directory, so thanks, I'll have a play with SoX the next time I need to process files and time allows investigation.

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John

SM6 · VK-3iX · VK-55 · Ninka

So here we are worrying about whether 16 bits is good enough (I think it
is, just) or whether we should sample at 96kHz or 88.2... and I put our
DAB stereo on today. I thought it sounds a bit off, so I checked. 80kbit
mono. Try another station. Same.

I think I might have to get a net streamer appliance and chuck the radio
away!

Andy

On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 21:21:05 +0100, Vir Campestris
wrote:

So here we are worrying about whether 16 bits is good enough (I think it
is, just) or whether we should sample at 96kHz or 88.2... and I put our
DAB stereo on today. I thought it sounds a bit off, so I checked. 80kbit
mono. Try another station. Same.

I think I might have to get a net streamer appliance and chuck the radio
away!

Andy

Use the radio streams on Freeview. Not entirely brilliant, but a sight
better than DAB.

d

In article , Don Pearce
wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 21:21:05 +0100, Vir Campestris
wrote:

So here we are worrying about whether 16 bits is good enough (I think
it is, just) or whether we should sample at 96kHz or 88.2... and I put
our DAB stereo on today. I thought it sounds a bit off, so I checked.
80kbit mono. Try another station. Same.

I think I might have to get a net streamer appliance and chuck the
radio away!

Andy

Use the radio streams on Freeview. Not entirely brilliant, but a sight
better than DAB.

Alas, less useful as advice in Scotland. :-/

Jim

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Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

In article ,
Jim Lesurf wrote:
Use the radio streams on Freeview. Not entirely brilliant, but a sight
better than DAB.

Alas, less useful as advice in Scotland. :-/

FTA satellite? I don't much use mine, but pretty well every radio station
seems to be up there if you look.

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*Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Jim Lesurf
wrote:
Use the radio streams on Freeview. Not entirely brilliant, but a
sight better than DAB.

Alas, less useful as advice in Scotland. :-/

FTA satellite? I don't much use mine, but pretty well every radio
station seems to be up there if you look.

I'm happy enough with the internet streams.

Just that I don't think recommending 'Freeview' for BBC radio is the first
suggestion I'd make. In England it may be fine as they don't lose out to
Alba TV.

Jim

--
Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me.
Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

Yea, but.......

Classic FM is only available in mono on Freeview - at least it is in
(some form of) stereo on DAB and certainly in good stereo on Sky.


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Woody

harrogate3 at ntlworld dot com

"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
...
In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Jim Lesurf
wrote:
Use the radio streams on Freeview. Not entirely brilliant, but
a
sight better than DAB.

Alas, less useful as advice in Scotland. :-/

FTA satellite? I don't much use mine, but pretty well every radio
station seems to be up there if you look.

I'm happy enough with the internet streams.

Just that I don't think recommending 'Freeview' for BBC radio is the
first
suggestion I'd make. In England it may be fine as they don't lose
out to
Alba TV.

Jim

--
Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email
me.
Electronics
http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

In article , Jim Lesurf
wrote:
In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Jim Lesurf
wrote:
Use the radio streams on Freeview. Not entirely brilliant, but a
sight better than DAB.

Alas, less useful as advice in Scotland. :-/

FTA satellite? I don't much use mine, but pretty well every radio
station seems to be up there if you look.

I'm happy enough with the internet streams.

Just that I don't think recommending 'Freeview' for BBC radio is the
first suggestion I'd make. In England it may be fine as they don't lose
out to Alba TV.

Perhaps worth adding that recent examinations indicate that the new 'BBC
Radio App' for Android, etc, seems to allow the user to download 320 aac
files for the UK stations. Using the app these may 'self destruct' 30 days
after over-air broadcast. But if you have a suitable mobile device, etc,
you may find this info handy. The limit then may be the audio quality you
can get *out* of your device. 8-]

Jim

--
Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me.
Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

In article , Vir
Campestris scribeth thus
So here we are worrying about whether 16 bits is good enough (I think it
is, just) or whether we should sample at 96kHz or 88.2... and I put our
DAB stereo on today. I thought it sounds a bit off, so I checked. 80kbit
mono. Try another station. Same.

I think I might have to get a net streamer appliance and chuck the radio
away!

Andy

Theres a trial Mux being started from Cambridge shortly, AFAIK there are
some 192K streams on there!...
--
Tony Sayer

On 19/07/2015 22:00, tony sayer wrote:
Theres a trial Mux being started from Cambridge shortly, AFAIK there are
some 192K streams on there!...

Ooh tell me more!

Andy