Sometimes DAB radio stations are playing music that skips like a CD, repeating a short segment like a broken record. It often goes on for quite some time, which is a bit puzzling because surely there is nothing about digital radio tech that would cause this. The skipping never happens during talk radio, only with music....
The station Bruzz has both a DAB (211.648 MHz) and analog signal (98.80 MHz). The DAB signal rarely has enough strength/integrity for the tuner to play it. Sometimes it’s just really choppy, cutting out every ½ second. The FM signal is good enough… a little static but it’s certainly tolerable, unlike DAB....
Just got a cheap dab+ radio from a shop that was liquidating. Bluetooth, stereo, USB, dab+, fm, aux… The signal quality is perfect on 86 out of 87 Brussels stations that were auto-tuned. It sounds a bit low pitch & slightly muffled but I think that’s down to the cheap hardware....
My smartphone has a built-in FM radio. Local shops are selling DAB+ radios. So I have to decide whether to buy one. I’m not really keen accumulate more electronic appliances for marginal gains....
I really like the idea of treating the radio like a #MythTV PVR – to browse a schedule, prioritize programs and have them automatically recorded. But this article is bad news. It says the devices that could do this have been discontinued....