Digital Radio (dab+)

[iseekool]

Just wondering if anyone here is using/listening to digital radio in DAB+ format.

I got myself a Pure Highway digital receiver for my car - Sounds brilliant - definately better than FM in terms of clarity, but not as good as CD. Some stations unfortunately sound like low quality MP3s - you can notice the compression.

Is anyone else using any other brand of reciever for their cars?

[rs73]

how do you connect the unit to your car stereo system? any pro installer required?

[iseekool]

No intsaller required - You mount it like a sat nav - the wires are annoying. The unit will either transmit via the built in FM transmitter or via an 3.5mm AUX/headphone connector.

I did a hidden setup whereby the unit is in my glove box - this prevents "most" of the wires being exposed - but makes it a pain to change stations.

[iseekool]

http://www.pure.com/products/product.asp?Product=VL-60905 - The Australian version is DAB+ not DAB - but the physical unit is exactly the same.

[ashneel]

was thinking about this but never listen to the radio now. the shitty reception you get fromt he 34 got me used to just listening to CD's

[some_cs_student]

Re-transmitting on FM seems wrong, I thought the main cool thing besides the song titles was the apparently "CD quality" radio, transmitting via FM will lose the quality.

I use USB personally but I would like to try the AUX input and hook up a digital receiver to it....when there are some more mature products for it around that I can get cheaply

[iseekool]

I setup mine via AUX - The FM transmitter is not good.

[W0rp3D]

satellite radio is the way of the future.

[some_cs_student]

Satellite radio costs too much, those models are struggling to survive in the USA.

I think I'll wait a while, the receivers cost way too much $$$ at the moment, I'm hoping the market will get more saturated in the next 6months and therefore price will drop a lot....

[W0rp3D]

If i do go digital, which i probably wont till i have to, it would have to be something built into a head unit, i dont like having any extra bits hanging off places.