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Quote: Originally Posted by mikeythemini (original)

This thread takes me back to when DAB was the future - many years ago - I had a customer who wanted it but it wasn't really available. (He was the owner of a big football pools company)
I ended up managing to get a prototype kenwood unit - very basic but £2000 !!!

Blimey! If you've got money, you can get almost anything you want.

The issue on DAB; it's a 15 year old platform and OFCOM have screwed it up by allowing too many stations to join in and overcrowd a multiplex. That's obviously had an effect on the quality on the stations and people have gone back to getting a really good FM system that stomps it. My MINI Boost system gets stations DAB would without any hassle. I did consider the upgrade; for the money, i wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

The only way DAB (or digital radio) will get back on track is if BBC/OFCOM would be honest, say they need to upgrade to DAB+ (a new revision using a more effecient codec) and replace current DAB sets at a small cost.