> Martin Deutsch wrote: > > I've suggested that Christopher tries another reciever, or > moves the > > aerial to somewhere with better signal strength. (I don't know that > > much about how the decoding process works, but perhaps someone more > > fluent in DVB will know - is it possible that error correction and > > recovery could be doing odd things to the sound in the event of low > > signal strength?) > > I wouldn't describe myself as an expert, but from what I know > of DVB, I think that it would be very unlikely that a > receiver could end up with an audio phase error and no other > symptoms as a consequence of reception difficulties.
Well guys, thank you all for humouring me on this (thanks in particular to Steve Jolly and Martin Deutsch) - I guess I'm just going crazy in my old twenty-two years of age. :( My brain's got to be playing tricks on me... In the years that I used the same receiver at my parents' house before moving to Brum for uni, I never once thought twice about how it sounded. It was just something, when I tuned in again here, that made me think "that sounds wrong, hmm..." The most frustrating thing is that to me, it still doesn't sound quite right, but my theories and observations have been roundly (and reassuringly comprehensively) disproved here! Never mind... I'm going to take these ears back to the shop on Monday morning, they've obviously outlived their usefulness. ;) Might get a new brain too (I'll get a lot for my brain because, as a drummer, it's never been used.) One thing that can't be denied is the encoding bitrate on News 24 as opposed to BBC One... When BBC One simulcasts N24 overnight, the difference is immediately noticeable - and it's only a difference of 192kbps on N24 versus 256kbps on BBC One! - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
