Digital Radios

i still have the prob that digital broadcasts (at least when i listen to them on my PC) are compressed at a lower quality (and since national coverage isn’t yet total) so FM is still the audiophile option... or maybe i just miss that FM sound and hate the clinical sterile dAB sound.

you have a DAB tuner in your PC?

i listen to radio from (bbc/lbc etc) websites.

are DAB radios able to access stuff that you would get online, like last weeks show of such and such DJ for example?

No. There are some expensive ones that let you tune into internet streamed radio though.

no, they're just radios; they receive signals over the airwaves, but the signals are digital - it's basically freeview, but on the radio

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i see.

im going to get this one -
http://www.ciao.co.uk/Panasonic_RFD3__6491694

its cheap on ebay.

for anyone interested, this site might be handy -

http://www.radio-now.co.uk

as well as the panasonic, they recommend this one (which i did consider but it looks really cheap) - http://www.radio-now.co.uk/pure_one_dab_radio_review.htm

Streaming radio doesn't have anything to do with DAB, Titchy. I just tried Late Junction on R3's Listen Again facility and it was running at about 90k - sounded fairly terrible. I think R3 DAB still broadcasts at 192k MP2 (not fantastic but better than online).

the pure DABs are nicely made and feel very solid. i have one.

woops not that one, though. i have this one, which looks like it's available at half price from morgan's - http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=3691&CategoryID=201&SubCategoryID=215&adnetwork=af

This is the kind of expensive box that can play streamed radio. Didn't realise it can also do Listen Again stuff.

what i worry about with things like that is that as streams change, and tech changes, this thing will be left behind. with something like a radio i like to at least pretend to myself that it's possibly a purchase for life.

> Streaming radio doesn't have anything to do with DAB, Titchy.

otm

> I just tried Late Junction on R3's Listen Again facility and it was running at about 90k - sounded fairly terrible.

luxury. the other bbc streams, radio1 and 2 certainly, are roughly 32kbps. but these are realaudio 10 (aac with sbr? ps? dunno) and so are several times better that mp3.

that said, it's fine, i listen to it all day and it doesn't bother me.

this can record shows too but its about 90.00-100.00 -
http://www.radio-now.co.uk/evoke_3.htm

one thing i dont like too much about the pure radios made from wood is that theyre trying to look like old traditional radios. i much prefer that 100% plastic look when it comes to DABs.

plus they are mono. so 1960s.

what i worry about with things like that is that as streams change, and tech changes, this thing will be left behind. with something like a radio i like to at least pretend to myself that it's possibly a purchase for life.

Yeah, me too, but remember some things can get firmware updates. Not sure if that applies to the AE box.