48 kHz FLAC by Swedish Radio & EBU recordings

 

Euroclassic Notturno is broadcast by 11 radio stations. This six-hour radio sequence features recordings made by members of the European Broadcasting Union, in their studios or during the broadcast of major music events. The program is edited by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

  

Swedish Radio 2 provides free online broadcasts even with Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC).

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These are 6-hour programs carried out 7 days a week. A FLAC stream with 48 kHz/16 bit sampling is 1536 kbps and Advanced Audio Coding can be an alternative to archiving these transmissions on a hard drive. Previously, this topic was discussed in more detail under the title BBC Sound HD free from Swedish Radio 2 and concerned the 320kbps stream in AAC format. SR2 also has a page with all the broadcasts and they are available there at 96 kbps.

 

 

With the free AIMP software, you can automatically save SR2 broadcasts to your hard drive, and their website has titles describing the recordings. You can create a home music server with unique, high-quality recordings. You just need to remember that 1 minute of a FLAC file is about 6 MB, so a 360-minute program takes up over 2 GB and will fill almost a 1 TB disk for a year.

So the alternative is still aac, and with the very simple mp3DirectCut program, such recordings can be easily divided into individual songs, creating a more universal music server at home. A 1 TB disk is enough for several years of recordings in AAC 320 kbps.

Broadcasts come from the Broadcasting House in London from 0:00-6:00 Central European Time on all weekdays, which is the same as on Swedish Radio. Broadcasting times may change locally. The BBC has Through the Night from 0:30-6:30 Monday to Friday and from 1:00-7:00 on Saturdays and Sundays. BBC Radio 3's Through the Night was first broadcast on May 5, 1996, when the station introduced 24-hour broadcasting. The free BBC3 stream is at a maximum of 128 kbps mp3 48 kHz, but its address changes in a way that is difficult to determine. Higher quality is offered on a commercial basis with advanced access coding and is in cooperation with RTV equipment manufacturers.  

The new possibilities with FLAC are another evolution that confirms that investing in audiophile tuners for analog radio transmissions no longer makes sense for a long time . There is a text on this topic titled  Analog FM radio has been digital for a long time.

It is similar with the TV, which still dominates the RTV offer, but its advantages are best treated as a good investment in the screen, i.e. the image display with multimedia recordings. There is already a text in this topic: All in one PC and iMac just like TV

The EBU recording is worth listening to with 4 speakers, especially from 48 kHz FLAC.  Such reproduction of stereophonic recordings was called ambiophony many years ago.

AMIP is designed for playback with 4 speakers and 192 kHz/32 bit oversampling. There are proven PC4uMusic configurations for this.

There is also a VST plug-in MatchAudio Room EQ available for the free foobar2000, which allows you to calibrate the signal to the speakers to ensure much more faithful music playback in a specific room, even with cheap stereo systems. The picture above shows a correction for the system for about 100 Euros, with which it was much more pleasant to listen to EBU recordings. The graph confirms that the left speaker stood closer to the wall and the unnatural gain from the bassreflex hole was spilled over into the wider bandwidth.