[BC] bit rate and audio

[Mark Humphrey]

By coincidence, I happened to find a paper yesterday entitled "DAB -- Is it
Already Out of Date?", written by Philip Laven, Technical Director of the
EBU _eight_ years ago.  It's good reading -- you can't help but ask the same
questions about our chosen in-band system.   Of course, if the receivers
were software-defined, that would help to avoid the problem of obsolescence.


Here's the link:

http://www.ebu.ch/en/technical/trev/trev_278-laven.pdf

Mark

2006/1/16, WFIFeng at aol.com <WFIFeng at aol.com>:
>
> In a message dated 01/16/2006 11:48:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> goran.tomas at email.htnet.hr writes:
>
> > Btw, since digital radio in UK is DAB, that means they are talking
> >  about MPEG Layer II. No wonder they think it sucks at 128kbps... It's
> >  15 years old coding technology!
>
> IMHO, 160Kbps is the absolute minimum for an acceptable-quality MP3.
>
> Willie...
>
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