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Digital radio - thumbs down for quality

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fmak

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I listened to and recorded BBCs last night at the proms last night using:

Accuphase T109 Tuner
Pioneer D0&A DAT machine at 96k and
monitored thru balanced input of my Accuphase C275 Preamp.

The DAT 07A's A to D and D to A only degraded SQ slightly and the setup was sonically far superior to Digital Radio on a PC or via a Sony DTS777ES digital tuner, which appear to me to be retrograde technology.

Problem now is how to save the spdif output of the recording to wav without SQ loss.

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RE: Digital radio - thumbs down for quality - Tony Lauck 14:36:32 09/11/16 (4)
Broadcast FM is already mid-fi quality. Digital radio uses low rate encoding and is going to be hopeless. (MP3 at 320 Kbps is supposedly equal to FM broadcast quality, but I find this questionable and lower rates are intolerable.)

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_broadcasting (Open in New Window)
Edits: 09/11/16
- RE: Digital radio - thumbs down for quality - fmak 00:49:51 09/12/16 (1)
  I have a very old Pioneer F90 FM/AM Tuner. Even this sound much better than DAB or streamed audio. No-one wants to buy one for �20!
  
  The UK government had slapped down the BBC's desire to abolish FM radio.
  - RE: Digital radio - thumbs down for quality - Tony Lauck 20:05:43 09/12/16 (0)
    Czech radio D-dur streams FLAC at 48/16. This sounds quite decent, definitely better than FM quality. With foobar 2000 there may be the occasional glitch (about once an hour)and sometimes the connection drops (usually during station breaks).
    
    Tony Lauck
    
    "Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
    - http://amp1.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac.m3u (Open in New Window)
- RE: Digital radio - thumbs down for quality - doak 15:11:57 09/11/16 (1)
  Yep, it sucks.
  Doesn't meet my personal "fidelity threshold" so therefore never liten to it.
  - RE: Digital radio - thumbs down for quality - Tony Lauck 18:20:53 09/12/16 (0)
    I don't know how bad the BBC broadcasts sound that fmak was commenting on, but I can imagine they were pretty horrible. However, not so horrible as music channels on satellite radio, which were even lower bandwidth then 128 kbps. I once left a restaurant that was playing a jazz channel of satellite radio as background music. It made me sick. I suggested to the proprietor that silence would be better than their sonic garbage.
    
    Tony Lauck
    
    "Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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