"Steve Terry" <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote in message
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> "Kráftéé" <kraftee@b&e-cottee.me.uk> wrote in message
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>> jasee wrote:
>>> Alan wrote:
>>>> In message <7afjm6F1vb133U1@mid.individual.net>, DAB sounds worse
>>>> than FM <dab.is@fooked.com> wrote
>>>>> There's a 10 Downing St petition to stop FM/AM being switched
>>>>> off:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/AM-FM-Radio/
>>>>
>>>> Why would anyone want to sign something that may prevent us
>>>> getting
>>>> hundreds of radio stations on DAB?
>>>
>>> Why would it do that?
>>> How many more rubbish radio stations (at lower quality than FM) do
>>> you want anyway?
>>
>> But with a greater bandwidth they wouldn't have to compress the
>> audio
>> so much & so you could have better quality sound, the way it should
>> be!
>>
> What we need is more compression to recreate a greater bandwidth,
> with DRM that's what you get


Where are you getting this stuff about DRM from? A typical DRM station
is the BBC World Service, which transmits in a 9 or 10 kHz bandwidth
channel and it uses a bit rate of about 20 kbps. The audio quality is
so bad that it makes DAB sound good in comparison, and I consider the
audio quality on DAB to be dire.

If you really mean DRM+ then that's a different story, but DRM without
the + is a crap, low quality system that's only really meant to
replace MW stations. And DRM doesn't stand a chance of getting
established in the UK now, because I don't think there are any
receivers in teh shops that support DRM - if there are any there's
only one or two.


--
Steve - www.savefm.org - stop the BBC bullies switching off FM

www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - digital radio news & info

"It is the sheer volume of online audio content available via
internet-connected devices which terrifies the UK radio industry. I
believe that broadband-delivered radio will explode in the years to
come, offering very local, unregulated content, as well as opening a
window to the radio stations of the world." - from the Myers Report