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The situation with FM where I am in the US seems better than in Europe. Whenever I listen to free sub 160Kb digi music streaming, the best way to describe it is it sounds like poorly studio recorded music of the 1960s. With FM it sounds like a better more modern studio recording of the 1970s onward.In general I like FM and have several tuners. Unfortunately since years they try to cut FM and promote DABplus. This has reduced sound quality due to low sample rates and is data reduced. Have no DABplus receiver and cannot compare. Eventually FM will die here in Germany. For car radio FM is useful for traffic and wheather information. For home the audio signal is somewhat compressed and with high level. Compared the music tunes to my CDs this is not good for enjoying. Weak FM signal causes the tuner to switch to mono which happens occasionally.
It'd be very interesting if someone with expertise could compare the audio signal of a FM tuner to audio out of say a Wii pro streaming free low bit signal and tell us what signals look like