In article <YvidnZyq4cW7f97XnZ2dnUVZ8kudnZ2d@brightview.co.uk >, Ian
Smith <news0807REMOVECAPS@orrery.e4ward.com> scribeth thus
>DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> In other words, you live in a crap FM reception area.
>
>There is some truth in that.
>>
>> 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. 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.
>
>This is very much like the vinyl v CD discussion. 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.
>
>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). Arguments about R4 speech radio in mono being compared to
>FM are just futile and don't relate to any real user experience.
>
>regards, Ian

Blimey!, do you live next door to Dave Plowman;?..
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Tony Sayer