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<blockquote data-quote="Adam792" data-source="post: 961769" data-attributes="member: 330868">Signal seems to be getting here into Worcester fairly well on D2, must be a mixture of Sutton Coldfield and Churchdown Hill. I'm surprised it's as good as it seems as that's even less local transmitters than D1 here (no Lark Stoke or Bromsgrove) which is missing from Malvern.I wish that more of the commercial stuff was in stereo, but the relatively decent sound of the BBC's 128kbps stereo makes the platform worthwhile for me as I can listen to national radio in the car on the way to work without any glitches whatsoever, whereas the national FM network here around Worcester is pretty bad. In the city centre a car FM radio constantly flicks between noisy poor signals from Sutton Coldfield, Ridge Hill and Wenvoe.We get a fairly decent choice of West Midlands commercial stuff in stereo too from the Birmingham Mux as its Lickey Hills transmitter puts an excellent signal into a huge swathe of Worcestershire!Roll on a change to DAB+ though, I heard some when I was in Berlin in December on the RBB and national commercial multiplexes there and the sound was very nice, down as low as 72kbps stereo AAC+ on some stations which sounded better than 128kbps MP2.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Adam792, post: 961769, member: 330868"] Signal seems to be getting here into Worcester fairly well on D2, must be a mixture of Sutton Coldfield and Churchdown Hill. I'm surprised it's as good as it seems as that's even less local transmitters than D1 here (no Lark Stoke or Bromsgrove) which is missing from Malvern. I wish that more of the commercial stuff was in stereo, but the relatively decent sound of the BBC's 128kbps stereo makes the platform worthwhile for me as I can listen to national radio in the car on the way to work without any glitches whatsoever, whereas the national FM network here around Worcester is pretty bad. In the city centre a car FM radio constantly flicks between noisy poor signals from Sutton Coldfield, Ridge Hill and Wenvoe. We get a fairly decent choice of West Midlands commercial stuff in stereo too from the Birmingham Mux as its Lickey Hills transmitter puts an excellent signal into a huge swathe of Worcestershire! Roll on a change to DAB+ though, I heard some when I was in Berlin in December on the RBB and national commercial multiplexes there and the sound was very nice, down as low as 72kbps stereo AAC+ on some stations which sounded better than 128kbps MP2. [/QUOTE]

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