[BC] RE: Solving the problem

[Robert Orban]

At 10:00 PM 1/21/2006, you wrote:
>From: "Chuck Hutton" <charlesh3 at msn.com>
>Subject: [BC] RE: Solving the problem
>To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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>I see it exactly the opposite. Having spent a fair part of my "career"
>working on wireless OFDM projects and speech coding for them, my vote is
>that it is not at all possible in the near term to get enough bits per
>second out of current OFDM + error coding techniques to support FM quality
>audio with AM IBOC. Nor is it possible to reduce the audio coding rate to
>squeeze FM quality audio into AM IBOC's 36 kb/s. (See anybody else getting
>that kind of quality in that range of bit rates?) Result: middling audio and
>interference.

aacPlusV2 sounds quite decent at 36 kbps in stereo, although certainly not 
"FM-quality" to my ears.  DRM made the correct choice when they chose that 
codec.

Bob Orban