Nope! Good old analogue for me in both my cars and the house radio still has valves! It's a 1960's His Masters Voice set, still works perfectly too!

Nope, analogue only.

 

Only DAB in the house are the digital radio channels on the digital TVs.

No DAB here, FM and AM in the Skoda and AM only in the Beetle.

Nope! Good old analogue for me in both my cars and the house radio still has valves! It's a 1960's His Masters Voice set, still works perfectly too!

a friend has an awesome sound system with valves in the amp and tuner, The sound is bloody amazing and his missus is under strict orders to never ever unplug it.

I have a Swing radio in the Fabia, don't know, or care what type it is, it plays my songs through the Aux socket and that's all I want it to do.

Skoda 'Symphony' radio/ cassette player in mine. MP3 connectivity through a cassette adaptor from Poundland. Tight as a ducks arse Skoda owner me Can't be bothered will all this single/ double DIN malarkey :no:

Have driven over 1400 miles so far this week all over the country, and had DAB in all the cars that I have been delivering and collecting.

Not had any problems getting a good signal, even in the Peak District. The only time I have lost coverage has been going through the tunnel on the M25 /A10 interchange.

Do like a bit of Planet Rock.

No DAB in my car either although admittedly no FM either as I accidentally broke the FAKRA aerial connector when fitting the stereo and no idea how to get it fixed as it seems quite a rare connector. 

 

I had thought about getting a DAB device to put in instead but I haven't seen anything which looked any good and now I have a decent head unit (Kenwood DNX520VBT upgrading from a Stream MP3) I'm not really missing the radio.

 

John

Be absolutely wasted on me so no. I don't even bother with FM in my car, MDI for ipod 99.2% of the time, DVD 0.3% of time (don't sit still in car much), HDD/SD 0.5% (when I forget I used ipod for something else). 

There are lots of other EU countries which do not have DAB at all and no intention, do DAB radios still have a normal FM tuner for these places?

I have DAB in one car and yes it has a normal FM receiver too.

My other 3 cars are all normal FM/AM radio's

I had DAB in the Beemer (2006 model) and the signal was terrible. It was quite cool listening to radio 5 live without the awful crackly 'tide coming in and out again' signal which is unique to AM, but it was infuriating when the signal dropped at went into squelch mode.

Current cars have no DAB. Volvo and Golf. I can't see them switching the FM signal off any time soon. It works and it's cheap.

Oh hang in though, maybe they want to sell off the FM spectrum to mobile phone companies for extra 5G coverage in exchange for a bazillion quids. Who'd a thunk it?

My builders radio is DAB :p

And it's clean.

 

I listen to Planet Rock (Where rock lives...)

all the time, also have a DAB in the kitchen at home with an ipod dock

in the top. FM radio doesn't cater for my taste in music.

Have been considering a DAB module for the RNSE in the Audi.

No I haven't, and don't want it.

Got one here at R Towers, but hate it. Struggle trying to find the stations I want.

 

I've got one that runs on steam in my bedroom for listening to the footie though. 

 

Young Ree has one fitted as standard in his new Fiesta, and it has a station on it that just plays music from the 80's which is rather cool. :sun:

I have a DAB clock radio next to the bed, it's great because the clock resets after a power outage (not unusual when there's a thunderstorm).

 

In the car I have the standard FM/AM/CD unit.  I rarely listen to the radion as I prefer to concentrate on my driving.  I have no intention of spending a large amount of money to replace it.

 

Our TV reception is much less reliable since we went digital, and we are only about 5 miles line-of-sight from the transmitter.  Presumably DAB will represent a similar improvement.

Don't have one in the Superb nor one at home - never listened to DAB so can't really comment on the quality. At home we listen to the iPod, very rarely have the "wireless" on!

So looking at this very roughly, about 90% don't have one.

DAB is technology of the past. In a couple of years no one will have DAB and everything will be Internet Radio

I dont have DAB, & no intentions of specifically going out to get one, if my next car has it then will see, but it is not a must.

 

Digital is not always best- How many people reading this had sky tv when it was analogue ? & how many have  stayed with it when it switched over fully to digital ?

I ditched it for cable, mainly because when it rains hard with analogue at least you could still see a picture with some sound, when it went digital it all went.

Have no DAB in the car & a couple at home. One of the ones at home is ok, the other struggles unless I go outside the house. Our local BBC radio (Hereford & Worcester) don't even transmit on DAB!

 

Big downside for me is that portable DAB radios eat batteries which makes them impractical.

 

Turning off FM is another idea that's called progress but isn't. The government is only doing it because they think they can sell those wavelengths to somebody. 

 

Ian

I have 2 dabs in the house and both are good. I now have dab in my new Octy, I drove from Yorkshire to Northumberland last week with the dab on low and it never missed a beat,

the downside of it is that it won't pick up local BBC radio ( they don't do dab just yet )

Most of my driving is done with the radio volume turned to off but with the Traffic Radio turned up so when it comes on I can hear it ok then it goes silent when they turn their broadcast off, I am not sure if it comes on via DAB or FM

To be honest it wouldn't bother me if they banned audio in cars (not that I advocate it ) but I prefer to concentrate on the job in hand,

 

Regards to all. George

one of our cars doesn't. Our BMW sounds better on FM but the VW sounds better with DAB, apples and oranges I suppose

We don't have DAB, apart from one unused portable at home.

 

Don't bother much with radio anyway, both Skoda's have music on-board, stored as MP3 files on SD Cards, CD's & DVD's.

 

We get to listen to what we like rather than some inane chatter from a DJ! 

 

DC

Got dab at home but not in the car, no point as I got most of my cds on a 32 gb sd card in the slot below the screen and random works well with no annoying Adverts/DJ/ News or info telling me to swtch to DAB on BBC Radio 2.... just my music

The Yeti has a 64Gb SDXC card full of MP3's, DAB, CD and FM (Amundsen+). I rarely use FM and find DAB useful for Radio 5 live (+ sports extra) - cricket etc and Radio 4 Extra.

 

The Octavia has FM, AM, Cassette and 6 CD Autochanger, although I tend to use my Android phone (via a 99p eBay special cassette adaptor) to listen to theTune In radio app (5 live and Radio 4 Extra mostly), along with another 64 Gb of MP3's.

 

On this basis I rarely use FM and tend to favour either DAB or internet radio.

  My 1987 Estelle still has the original Philips radio cassette player that was standard from new. The console it fits in fell off of the dashboard onto the floor the other day and it still works hanging by its wires. A few months ago the drivers speaker fell off.

How difficult/costly would it be to switch to DAB in a superb se, is just a head unit swap or much more involved? Sorry if this is a bit of a dumb question, but I don't have a clue about any of this, but I do like to listen to Talk Sport when I'm driving.

Our local BBC radio (Hereford & Worcester) don't even transmit on DAB!

The new multiplex (which is used for broadcasting BBC H&W) was switched on last weekend (6th Dec) so it's now available.