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In Reply to: RE: Digital radio - thumbs down for quality posted by fmak on September 11, 2016 at 02:32:09
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
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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.
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
Yep, it sucks.
Doesn't meet my personal "fidelity threshold" so therefore never liten to it.
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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