What a Croc!
Broadcasting A-League on SEN+ means it wonāt clash with SENās cricket and AFL coverage.
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Good news, hopefully the station will be alphabetically next to SEN on my DAB+ radios. Will be easy to flick between 1116SEN and 1377SEN+.
Also Iāve noticed that currently the Classic Rock Radio DAB+ stream sounds higher quality than SEN so I wonder if that will stay the same when it becomes SEN+. Both are 56kbps on DAB+ but I suspect there is a higher quality STL for CRR.
I am Spitting Chips that Classic Rock Radio is getting the Axe, I donāt really care for more Sports Stations. All I want is Classic Rock with Minimal Ads and Some good talk shows on weekend mornings. The only station I listen to in the car is Classic Rock Radio. Not Happy Jan. āSEN+ā Can go bugger off. For now all Iām gonna do is Binge listen to Classic Rock. One thing I like about the frequency I must add is that you can hear it all the way in Bendigo too! the range is excellent.
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DAB audio is distributed by IP, and the quality of the link can not alter the audio quality. It either works or it doesnāt.
The likely cause would be the processing. Either using different processors, or just running different settings to suit the inherent differences between talk and music.
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Wonder what the processing on the SEN stream is like. I presume that 1377ās hasnāt changed since it was 3MP, and half expect it wonāt change next week
SEN is AAC-LC while CRR is HE-AAC v1 - which means it has SBR added, which reconstructs/simulates frequencies that would be cut off on the AAC-LC SEN.
AAC-LC usually avoids harsh S sounds, which generally makes it sound better for speech, but at low bit rates that gain is outweighed by the overall lack of fidelity.
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This makes more sense.
The reason I thought it could have been the STL was I thought the compression on SEN sounded more like MPEG Layer-2 encoding which could have been used somewhere in the STL chain. And AAC-LC does sound similar to MPEG Layer 2 audio to my ears.
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With SEN+ on the way, could this be PSNās strategy to flood the market with an overload of choice for sports radio & as a result (hopefully) drive MSR out of market?
Regardless, I suppose it should stop MSR from positioning themselves as āa new player in townā.
Sydney has Fun Classic Hits, Why canāt Classic Rock Radio as KOOOL Merge into a Pure Classic Hits Station for Melbourne?
Iād prefer the āweirdā UK system needing Ofcom approval as it means a better outcome for listeners in terms of format variety. The Canadian regulator used to do the same. Listeners in both countries enjoy a better variety of formats.
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Youāll have to go DAB and listen to MMM CRD I guess. Itās actually pretty good in terms of the music, but the number of ads has crept up.
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Iād argue that itās totally ineffective: I donāt think any format change has been denied? Certainly not recently, anyway
Classic Rock Radio and KOOOL need to Merge into a New Classic Hits Station for Melbourne.
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If anything Kool should get an AM stationā¦
Looks like SEN+ will start from Midnight on Monday. Might have to record this changeoverā¦
Iām currently in the process of recording some Classic Rock Radio Promos and Idents and iāll compile them for Archival purposes.
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I have finally compiled some Promos and Idents from CRR, Enjoy 
It seems SEN+ is already ready to takeover at 12AM. They even have a listen live on the website for it now and everythingā¦ (which ironically is the same stream as CRR)