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Tantris
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« on: 18:42:44, 11-02-2007 »
My experience of Radio 3 on freeview is that it is not very good - but that may be because I get a good FM signal.

How does Radio 3 sound via a satellite feed? And is this the best source for European radio?

Is satellite anyway going to be overtaken by webcasts - most of the European radio stations I listen to already issue webcasts at quite high bit rates - Bayern Klassik can be 320kbps at times.
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #1 on: 20:21:47, 11-02-2007 »
Although it's a while since I've been able to use FM, I was a big DAB user until last year, when I bought a cheap satellite box from my local LIDL. It took some time to erect a dish, but as soon as I had the DAB was consigned to back-up position: I much preferred the sound from satellite. Since then I've made a further change which is only available to Mac users, by adding the eye-tv firewire satellite box, which allows plenty of time shift recording direct to the hard-drive. The LIDL box is wired downstream of the new box, which means that stations within a frequency group can also be accessed at the same time.

It's a slightly different solution to those you're researching, but one which pleases me greatly; the biggest advantage of all is the huge amount of material which can be archived on a single DVD - upwards of forty hours at the same resolution as received.
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« Reply #2 on: 21:35:22, 11-02-2007 »
Ron -- thanks - that is very interesting. I had not heard of the eye-tv thing before, and a google has brought me to the Elgato Systems site which I am reading with real interest. I'm not a Mac user, but could well be tempted by an IMac as it just seems 'right'.

What I'm really looking for, I suppose, is a means of getting very high quality sound, and recording, in as simple a way as possible, and not to be limited to Radio 3 as a source for recordings. I've been looking at Naimnet (unbelievably expensive, not yet on the market, and the N-Vi doesn't inspire confidence), Sony Vaio media PCs, and Yamaha MusicCast, and none of them seems to have the ease of functionality and simplicity that I'm looking for. (And how many people really want multi-room capability? I certainly don't.) I want to be able to access music quickly, and to be able to record and edit radio programmes and add them to the catalogue if they're worth it, and not to have mountains of LPs, CDs and CD-Rs lying around.

Perhaps having an IMac as the heart of a music network, supported by a satellite receiver and a large hard drive for storage, might be a possible solution. It was much easier when LPs were clearly the only choice ...
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« Reply #3 on: 22:34:13, 11-02-2007 »
And indeed it's the iMac plus external hard drive(s) that perform the function for me now, tantris; elegant, simple and reliable, forming the centre for most of my creative work (the majority of the business stuff still done on the PC which sits alongside). Setting up recordings is particularly simple; tv as well as radio accurately programmed in seconds. Having been through a plethora of reel-to-reel, cassette, PCM, MiniDisc and hard drive recording variants, I can say, hand on heart, that this is the easiest and most trustworthy method I've yet used.
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