21-05-2011, 10:00 PM
Well, there are worse things you could do. I've got a hardly used one and I know for a fact that Mark has one.
The system they use could be very good actually. Like MP3, the bitrate matters. I'm sure we have all heard a dodgy MP3. The system of DAB was let down by bean counters. Like Analogue. Digital needs more bandwidth to work, and the more stations you put onto a Digital mulitplex, the less each station has, so the quality suffers. They allocate as many stations as they can get away with. Most people don't notice, some don't care and it's only people like us who notice and bother.
Before the Radio Changes of 1979, AM sounded a lot better than it does now. (There are other things that tend to make AM sound poor, but we're not discussing Optimod on here.)
To prove my point, Radio 3 always has a higher bitrate, and it sounds better for it. All that for the sound of small animals being tortured...
Cheers,
Steve P.
The system they use could be very good actually. Like MP3, the bitrate matters. I'm sure we have all heard a dodgy MP3. The system of DAB was let down by bean counters. Like Analogue. Digital needs more bandwidth to work, and the more stations you put onto a Digital mulitplex, the less each station has, so the quality suffers. They allocate as many stations as they can get away with. Most people don't notice, some don't care and it's only people like us who notice and bother.
Before the Radio Changes of 1979, AM sounded a lot better than it does now. (There are other things that tend to make AM sound poor, but we're not discussing Optimod on here.)
To prove my point, Radio 3 always has a higher bitrate, and it sounds better for it. All that for the sound of small animals being tortured...
Cheers,
Steve P.
If we've always had that, why is the car boot open? You aren't smuggling in another old TV are you...?
