Hey Engadget- I do enjoy your coverage, so I can only assume that your negativity towards DAB is due to you not living in the UK where we use it. The FM stations we have are pretty poor for music (either easy listening, classical or idiot-kid music stations, or else dire local commercial radio). Compared to FM, a huge number of quality or special interest stations are available through DAB, some of excellent quality (stand up BBCradio6music) and in hiss-free quality to boot. True, it's can be too compressed (not as in the digital sense but in the dynamic range of the audio) but even CDs are these days; neither have to be, they're just catering to the unlucky people who use little speakers.
£50 is about the entry level for a desktop DAB radio and has been for some time. For a portable DAB player, it's actually cheap. It might be possible that you have overlooked the uncommonly high PoundSterling at the moment (which wold make UK prices look high to you, and to us Brits your US-priced gadgets looks soo affordable, if only I had the money...) so we'll let you off.
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Hey Engadget- I do enjoy your coverage, so I can only assume that your negativity towards DAB is due to you not living in the UK where we use it. The FM stations we have are pretty poor for music (either easy listening, classical or idiot-kid music stations, or else dire local commercial radio). Compared to FM, a huge number of quality or special interest stations are available through DAB, some of excellent quality (stand up BBCradio6music) and in hiss-free quality to boot. True, it's can be too compressed (not as in the digital sense but in the dynamic range of the audio) but even CDs are these days; neither have to be, they're just catering to the unlucky people who use little speakers.
£50 is about the entry level for a desktop DAB radio and has been for some time. For a portable DAB player, it's actually cheap. It might be possible that you have overlooked the uncommonly high PoundSterling at the moment (which wold make UK prices look high to you, and to us Brits your US-priced gadgets looks soo affordable, if only I had the money...) so we'll let you off.
Keep up the good work.