Just tuned into Virgin DAB to listen to Graham Norton and noticed an immediate change in his voice, almost as if he has a sore throat.
Then I pressed INFO on my Denon DM41 and I see that he is being broadcast on MP2 80K *mono*. Very noticible change from FM radio 2.
Andrew
Is he broadcasting from a broom-cupboard at home, instead of a proper studio?
His broom cupboard is probably more palatial than my living room, though.
His voice was as normal as it ever is in last night's BBC1 show. It used to be recorded a couple of days before TX.
DAB is the problem...
Ours that does that due to the virus puts a towel over his head at home and sounds the same as usual.
Yes the grittyness of some mono stuff is awful, try listening to some of the freeview feeds of stations. Brian
80K Mono is fine for speech/discussion, but the distortion with 'music' is too obvious compared to FM R2. I wonder why they bother with DAB at all and don't just go 100% online ?.
I do, but I didn't think Virgin was on Freeview ?
Andrew
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