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<blockquote data-quote="Adam792" data-source="post: 1137010" data-attributes="member: 330868"><p>Anecdotally, I can see why the DAB figures are above FM/MW in the UK now, especially in the past few years. Stuff like the BBC stations don’t sound too bad, especially in a noisy environment like the car. Plus in the part of England I live in, the DAB signal for the national stations is much better than FM, which constantly flicks between several marginal transmitters.</p><p></p><p>If I’m listening to the radio in the car, it’s via DAB. Same for a lot of my family. All new cars now have it as standard, and a good amount of ones from the last ten years do as well.</p><p></p><p>The builders on the worksite behind where I live inflict one of the national DAB stations on me pretty much every day, on one of those rugged worksite boombox things. Usually Heart 90s or Absolute… <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>All you’ve said is bang on. It is a pity that we’ve gone for cramming it with low bitrate stuff in this country. As for the 88kbps HE-AAC on the French muxes, it does sound very nice. I’ve modulated the 5°W feeds to DAB using a HackRF (there’s a thread on here somewhere) and the stations sound great through my stereo DAB mini HiFi. Much better quality than any UK station I’ve heard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Adam792, post: 1137010, member: 330868"] Anecdotally, I can see why the DAB figures are above FM/MW in the UK now, especially in the past few years. Stuff like the BBC stations don’t sound too bad, especially in a noisy environment like the car. Plus in the part of England I live in, the DAB signal for the national stations is much better than FM, which constantly flicks between several marginal transmitters. If I’m listening to the radio in the car, it’s via DAB. Same for a lot of my family. All new cars now have it as standard, and a good amount of ones from the last ten years do as well. The builders on the worksite behind where I live inflict one of the national DAB stations on me pretty much every day, on one of those rugged worksite boombox things. Usually Heart 90s or Absolute… :D All you’ve said is bang on. It is a pity that we’ve gone for cramming it with low bitrate stuff in this country. As for the 88kbps HE-AAC on the French muxes, it does sound very nice. I’ve modulated the 5°W feeds to DAB using a HackRF (there’s a thread on here somewhere) and the stations sound great through my stereo DAB mini HiFi. Much better quality than any UK station I’ve heard. [/QUOTE]
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