Unfortunately, I've just found out the hard way that DAB is an absolute farce.
Literally yesterday I bought a DAB/FM tuner mistakenly thinking that Classic FM would sound better on DAB than on FM. I turned to Google to find out why this wasn't the case, and within about 20 seconds, thanks to Wikipedia, I knew. Apparently, you need at least a bitrate of 256Kbps with the mp2 format that DAB uses for transparency, yet Classic FM broadcasts at 160Kbps and Jazz FM at 128Kbps!
What's the point of building all these transmitters, and wasting money on DAB, if it's so useless there isn't even enough bandwidth to broadcast a proper signal.
Classic FM on FM sounds a lot more natural and seems to carry more emotion in the music. (To my ears anyway.) And I'm not some analogue buff; the only other source component I own is a CD player, and my Amplifier is solid state.
Cheers, Marco.