Richard Evans wrote:

A good modern digital radio system might not fix all the problems, but
it would at least make good sound quality a feasible option.

Richard E.

Speaking of good digital radio systems, I just did a bit of searching
for information on a standard called DVB-NGH. This is a intended to be a
standard for broadcasting to hand held devices, most likely based upon
the DVB-T2 standard. It's actually being developed as a mobile TV
standard, but there is no reason why it couldn't carry digital radio.
That should be very good as a digital radio standard. It seems that they
plan to have it all standardised around about the year 2013.

DVB-T2 has a mode that with a bandwidth of 1.7 Mhz, which ought to make
it suitable for Band III channels designed for DAB/DAB+. Hopefully NGH
will also have this option. Whether or not it is actually used, and
whether it is actually used for digital radio is however another matter.
I'm not especially optimistic about it as broadcasters don't seem to
like introducing new standards.

Richard E.