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Old 2006-01-03, 10:16 PM
alchemy71085
 
FM vs. Digital Radio

I have received word that recordings from digital radio are technically superior to recordings from regular FM radio. The reasoning behind this is that "FM compression negatively alters sound quality far more than the streamed mp3 lineage." What is the validity to this statement? I know of course that both broadcasts are compressed, but what is the lesser of the two evils? And the SA of two samples from both sources point to FM as being the superior recording. Digital radio broadcasts are broadcast at 192 kbps, but what is the approximate bitrate of an FM recording? I've read anything from 96kbps ( ) to 256 kbps. Thanks.
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