[BC] Digital Radio in Australia - Progress??

[Goran Tomas]

--- At 16.10.2005.b 18:59, Bill Sepmeier wrote: ---
>Interesting.  We ran many blind tests during my tenure in the satcoms 
>business and not one showed anyone who could A/B tell the difference 
>between 192 L2a and 128 L2a MPEG.  128 / 256? Yes, there's more bass at 
>256, but once our clients added 3db on the low end the difference even 
>between 256 and 128 was undetectable.  We never experienced artifacts in 
>speech at 128 on any of our client's nets ... shoot, if it had sounded bad 
>I would have chopped the transponder into 300kHz slices instead of 200 and 
>had everyone running 192... plenty of returns either way.
>
>What codec and equipment were you using?  CCS/Comstream?

Hmm, interesting... I can't remember what the codec was right now, but I'll 
try to find out.


Regards,
Goran Tomas