Comments on: Pros and Cons of DAB Radio https://bestradios.co.uk/pros-and-cons-of-dab-radio/ Reviews of the best radios available in the UK Sat, 11 Apr 2020 17:42:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Pete G https://bestradios.co.uk/pros-and-cons-of-dab-radio/#comment-7032 Wed, 09 May 2018 23:12:58 +0000 https://bestradios.co.uk/?p=215#comment-7032 Couple of points about this excellent piece.

1) DAB works best with a really good (external) antenna.
2) DAB+ is slowly being introduced to the UK. It make much better use of bandwidth (32k stereo instead of 128k), is much more tolerant of poor signals, and doesn’t sound like ‘bubbling mud’ when the signal does fade.

3) While DAB radios often have FM, almost none have AM.
This can be a problem especially with sports broadcasts as quite a few sports broadcast licences require the broadcaster to pay for each stream they broadcast on (AM/FM/DAB/Internet). Broadcasters like the BBC will often put a different program on DAB/Internet (which reach far smaller audiences) rather than pay double or treble rates to the sports licencee.

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