Albert H wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 3:11 am 64k mono will sound appalling on DAB - remember DAB uses a crappy MP2 codec. The service providers have crammed ever more stations on to the DAB bouquets, and as they add more, the quality of the others declines. When DAB began - with just a few BBC stations on it, the quality (if not the content) was fine. Then they started reducing bit rates in an effort to squeeze more stations on DAB. It all went to crap pretty quickly.

DAB is unlistenable rubbish these days. The content is dreadful - BBC lies and propaganda, Bauer and Global automated rubbish (and LBC ), and the Wireless Group don't know what they're doing. The only stuff worth listening to these days are the better quality internet streams, mostly from other countries.

g33ky wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:14 pm

XXL wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 6:39 pm People often get confused with bit rates. 64kbps mono is 1 half of 128kbps stereo. Mono is what pirates use anyway.

I do hope DAB doesn’t get any more popular though.

Is it? I thought 128k Joint Stereo (which is the stereo format used at 128k) was similar to FM's DSB-SC, i.e. the difference signal. There is a very noticable difference between 64k mono and 128k stereo, and not just the fact that only one channel is used.

famefm wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 5:15 pm I think you are being very harsh on this particular subject because release is a decent station doing things a little different from your endless shout out type stations nothing wrong with them but release is running a good outfit who have not sold out like most others. As for dab we all know that fm isn't going away and some dab is a total joke and I think that the globals and BBC of this world have cut down quite a lot trying to brainwash the public into dab