[cma-l] DAB

[Philippa Sawyer]

Jonathan Marsh at RadioLab (Uni of Beds) is your man.  Not sure if he is on this list.  He was at WycSo last week doing research on the relative quality of different bit rates and DAB vs DAB+ pros/cons.  Really interesting stuff.   He's interested in visiting stations (within reach of Luton) who can gather a number of people together to do the research, which takes around 20 minutes to complete.  I can connect him to anyone who is interested, if he's not here already!


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Sent: 12 December 2017 15:12:38
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Subject: Re: [cma-l] DAB

Dab+ is getting there, I dont have the data of total DAB ownership to hand. But here are the recent DAB+ from the recent DRUK update event.

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On 12 December 2017 at 14:26, Associated Broadcast Consultants <info at a-bc.co.uk<mailto:info at a-bc.co.uk>> wrote:
Yes - 80k mono sounds reasonable (ish) and is maximally compatible with radio sets.  DAB+ is only available on a proportion of the radios out there - not sure if anyone knows the proportion - say 50% at a guess?   Obviously 48k stereo will sound better than 32k stereo.  I'd guess the carriage charge is more or less proportional to the data rate required - so you have a choice to make there.

If you are interested, you can listen to samples of the different formats on a Blog we did a 2 or 3 years back.

http://a-bc.co.uk/audio-quality-comparison-dab-pcm-fm-am/

Regards,  Glyn

Glyn Roylance - Principal Consultant
Associated Broadcast Consultants<http://www.a-bc.co.uk/>




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On 12 December 2017 at 12:53, Ray C <rayc1066 at yahoo.com<mailto:rayc1066 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
Dear all,

May I just say thank you to Bill and many others who replied to my email with regards to help with business rates, I am very grateful, this just goes to show how useful being a CMA member really is, with great like minded people on here its truly like one big team so thanks to Bill and the team for doing a grand job.

So Asian Star has just been granted its  DSPS license as we have decided to go digital, we are nearly there but are slightly confused on which platform to go on we have been offered 32k DAB+ stereo , 48k DAB+ stereo or 80k mono?

Can any expert out there shed some light on which one will be best for us please. I feel DAB 80k Mono is the best way forward as Dab + just isnt widely available enough yet. Your thoughts would be great.

Many thanks

Ray Siddique
Asian Star Radio


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