Comments on: DAB future is bleak as year-on-year sales drop 20 per cent below expectations http://www.chutneytech.com/dab-future-is-bleak-as-year-on-year-sales-drop-20-per-cent-below-expectations/ Because Being a G33k is L33t Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:22:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Daisyellow http://www.chutneytech.com/dab-future-is-bleak-as-year-on-year-sales-drop-20-per-cent-below-expectations/#comment-1035 Daisyellow Thu, 28 May 2009 22:47:31 +0000 http://www.chutneytech.com/?p=789#comment-1035 DAB sounds totally rubbish My Boyf's DAB radio hums so badly all the time that we never bother listening to it and just use the analogue one. My Mum & Dad's DAB radio is better, but it keeps on losing signal if you stand in just the wrong place in the kitchen. Plus, how annoying is it that "the pips" are late on DAB. Useless. Also, the replacement costs of the 14 analogue radios we have in our ordinary semi and three cars will be astronomical financially and environmentally - since 3 of them are already over 20 years old and still going strong, I don't hold out much hope for "natural replacement". DAB sounds totally rubbish
My Boyf’s DAB radio hums so badly all the time that we never bother listening to it and just use the analogue one.
My Mum & Dad’s DAB radio is better, but it keeps on losing signal if you stand in just the wrong place in the kitchen.

Plus, how annoying is it that “the pips” are late on DAB. Useless.

Also, the replacement costs of the 14 analogue radios we have in our ordinary semi and three cars will be astronomical financially and environmentally – since 3 of them are already over 20 years old and still going strong, I don’t hold out much hope for “natural replacement”.

]]> By: Mark http://www.chutneytech.com/dab-future-is-bleak-as-year-on-year-sales-drop-20-per-cent-below-expectations/#comment-925 Mark Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:29:24 +0000 http://www.chutneytech.com/?p=789#comment-925 DAB is rubbish, we need something that sounds better. FM outperforms DAB is every respect at the Bit-rates used by broadcasters. 256 k/bs should be used for DAB, but 112 - 128k/bs is what is generally used. Stick to FM and install an FM in your loft if reception is not free of hiss and distortion on your in room aerial - will then outperform DAB. DAB is rubbish, we need something that sounds better. FM outperforms DAB is every respect at the Bit-rates used by broadcasters. 256 k/bs should be used for DAB, but 112 – 128k/bs is what is generally used. Stick to FM and install an FM in your loft if reception is not free of hiss and distortion on your in room aerial – will then outperform DAB.

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