i propose that we start phasing out industry working groups in 2009, with an end to forced upgrades to technologies nobody wants to be fully implemented by 2010. enough already; where's this "free market" i keep hearing about? would we let coca-cola do this to milk?
DAB is completely overrated. The BBC have even admitted that they claw back the bit rate of many broadcasts, to a level which makes them clearly poorer quality than their FM equivilants.
The public have been tricked into thinking DAB=higher quality, which is rubbish.
In addition, unless the signal is a strong one, the sound becomes so garbled and distorted that listening to a broadcast becomes impossible. At least with FM, you could get by with a minor 'hiss' in the background.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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i propose that we start phasing out industry working groups in 2009, with an end to forced upgrades to technologies nobody wants to be fully implemented by 2010. enough already; where's this "free market" i keep hearing about? would we let coca-cola do this to milk?
Well said.
DAB is completely overrated. The BBC have even admitted that they claw back the bit rate of many broadcasts, to a level which makes them clearly poorer quality than their FM equivilants.
The public have been tricked into thinking DAB=higher quality, which is rubbish.
In addition, unless the signal is a strong one, the sound becomes so garbled and distorted that listening to a broadcast becomes impossible. At least with FM, you could get by with a minor 'hiss' in the background.
They call it mud puddling, because it sounds like a fart rising in a pile of mud.
Most DAB is sub 64kbps, and even at MP3 64kbps is sub-par, and with MPEG2 it is just awful.