PasTim wrote: 
> The Radio 3 flac sound really is rather good, listening to evening
> concerts, but coming a bit late for me as my hearing fades :(
> 
> No matter.  I know this is a bit off topic, but I'd be interested to
> know if the BBC record straight to digital, and therefore whether FM
> broadcasts are originally digital and converted to analogue, or vice
> versa? For reasons to do with new LED light bulbs interfering with FM
> I've had to use DAB quite a lot lately, and even I can hear it's not a
> patch on FM.  Flac via LMS or iPlayer on the other hand seems good to
> me, and doesn't suffer interference (just may not work well when Trump
> starts WWIII and the internet crashes out).

I have an LED panel lighting my kitchen that puts annoying amounts of
noise on my FM reception, even with a loft aerial. I've tried ferrite
chokes on the light panel cables but to no avail. It's incredibly
annoying, but at least iPlayer AAC at 320kbps sounds better than FM
anyway so I'm not losing out really.

FM broadcasts are distributed digitally around the transmitters using
NICAM. So there is already a digital section in the middle of the
transmission network, and has been since the 1980s as they started to
build out the digital distribution system for FM.


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