SnowyJohn:
Clare Newsome:and the quality of digital matches FM.
how would digital not be better quality?
When you have compared the two through the same device (in my case an Arcam Solo-Mini with FM and DAB via newly installed dedicated roof aerials in a strong reception area for both) and found that DAB is two-dimensional and lifeless in comparison to FM.
When the same FM superiority is apparent even on a Pure Evoke Flow kitchen radio with a 3" speaker.
When Freeview radio and BBC iPlayer radio are both superior in sound quality to what is supposed to become - one day - our prime quality radio transmission media (DAB) then something is going wrong.
DAB also uses more energy (to receive and transmit) than FM and switchover could result in over 100 million radios (in the UK) becoming landfill within 5 years. Not exactly an insignificant ecological gaff.
Also DAB has already been superceded by the superior sounding DAB+ (AAC) format, (already in use nationwide in some countries) but there are no plans to introduce it in the UK where the authorities have chosen ancient DAB technology instead.