DAB with Bose

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Originally Posted by Paulyrow

Hi Everyone

I have a standard DAB radio in my A8. I am not sure, because it is a 2005 car whether poor reception is due to the specification of the unit fitted, or the performance of the aerial, which I presume is within the shark fin on the roof.

The aerial is within the rear window lines, the odd ones at the top. There is an amplifier above that too. DAB is the UK is garbage apart from in cities, it was designed by BBC anorak radio ham fanatics rather than by a commercial operator who wanted it to work well and be future proof we were early adopters of DAB and ended up with an over-budget, underpeforming infrastructure with low qaulity streams (due to the codec) (just about everwhere else in the world uses the more robust and much higher quality DAB+).