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		gpvos on April 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Do FM Frequencies End in an Odd Decimal? (2015... It's actually sad that DAB+ is now set in stone using AAC, while in the meantime Opus has been developed which is more or less optimal regarding aural information per bandwidth (see the spectrum diagrams).

giantrobot on April 20, 2020 [–]

DAB+ uses HE-AAC which is more efficient encoding than AAC-LC. It compares well to Opus at the same bitrate.

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