Roberts 93i Stream and BBC High Definition Streams

[Steve]

Hi Simon,

Thanks for a quality reply and responding so quickly.

After I sent the original post I went on playing around and had discovered the MP3 320 setting and tried this as well.

There is difference between the quality - at the low volume I normally use (as the radio is close to where I sit) it's not too noticeable, but as the volume is increased so the difference becomes much more apparent - even to my 52 year old ears. The PCM 1536 kbps is much better than the MP3 stream with no bit rate specified (i.e 128 kbps) and a little bit better than the MP3 320 kbps.

What has shown the difference more explicitly is listening through headphones - I don't usually use headphones but did so to test the different streams and it confirmed the PCM stream is a bit clearer, sharper and more focused than the others.

I can live without the descriptions - so more than happy with the solution and option MinimStreamer has given me.

Interestingly I've had no drop outs - once or twice listening through the 'standard' internet radio I've had some streaming drops - so this seems better as well. I'm sure time will tell.

For Christmas a Yamaha Media Streamer will be landing to use in the house - I like Yamaha gear and relatively speaking (to a lot of true hi-fi gear) it's not too expensive - so next step will be to test the radio streams through this.

I'll give an update on what happens after Christmas - once the Yamaha is up and running.

Excellent software and solution you've developed, and you should be proud of it.

Donation on it's way - once again, many thanks.