"Ian Smith" <news0807REMOVECAPS@orrery.e4ward.com> wrote in message
news:YvidnZyq4cW7f97XnZ2dnUVZ8kudnZ2d@brightview.c o.uk
> DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> In other words, you live in a crap FM reception area.
>
> There is some truth in that.


You said that you receive hissy FM even with a good aerial - that's
basically the definition of crap FM reception quality.


>> Reception quality is different to audio quality, and anybody who
>> has
>> reasonably good reception quality on both DAB and FM will receive
>> higher qulaity on FM.
>
> Well, most people don't agree with you.


Sorry, what I said there is fact.


>Whether they are discerning
> or not, I don't know.
>
> I don't agree with you in terms of quality. I have an excellent
> sound system and I've never managed to get anything that gets near
> hiss-free on FM.


The quality of your hi-fi system doesn't have any bearing on your
reception quality - that's all to do with signal strength (and if
you've got a decent aerial, which you said you have).


> This is very much like the vinyl v CD discussion.


Loads of people say that, but it's actually nothing like the CD vs
vinyl discussion - both of those deliver high quality, whereas DAB
doesn't deliver high quality but FM does.


>Vinyl have me
> crackly playback, oven on a good deck and with a new pressing. CD
> gave me click and pop free playback - no matter what any HiFi mag
> says, the 'quality' of my CD experience is higher.


I'm not commenting on this because it's a completely different
argument.


> Likewise, the 'quality' of my DAB experience on radio 3 is higher
> than I could have ever achieved with FM (in any location I've ever
> tried it).


Yeah, that's for YOU. But for anybody with good reception quality on
both DAB and FM the quality on FM is better. Basically, if you
understood the technologies that are used then FM basically can't be
worse than DAB.


> Arguments about R4 speech radio in mono being compared to
> FM are just futile and don't relate to any real user experience.


Radio 4 is in mono on DAB quite frequently in the evening whereas it's
in stereo on FM. Not sure how anyone can deny that it's better to have
stereo than mono.



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