Author: trotter Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] OT:Fwd: Mark Thompson on Media Show on R4 about FM
switch off
At 13:03 24/06/2009, you wrote: >On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 12:36 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> > From reading the DAB standards, European Standard 201 980, it seems
> > quite clear that the audio quality of DAB, or DAB+ for that matter is
> > worse than the old FM.
> > It uses 12kHz or 24kHz sampling when we are all used to 44.1kHz CDs
> > and 48kHz DVDs.
>
>I thought Musicam could use those higher sampling rates. Most of the
>distortions I hear on DAB are compression artefacts (sometimes it's
>barely transparent at 192kb/s).
Haven't the BBC already reduced all stations to below 192kb/s to
cater for more stations
like 1xtra and Asian network?
I seem to remember radio 3 has the highest bit rate of 160 ? but that
varies depending
on if radio 5 extra is running or not.
Martin N
Owner of the bwfc yahoogroup and Co-Moderator of MiniDisc and
amithlonopen yahoo groups.
