Background hum on Lyric

Mearings

I'm listening to Lyric on my Roberts WM 201 internet radio & hear a continuous hum. Checked RTE Radio 1, no hum?

Mearings

Mearings wrote: »

I'm listening to Lyric on my Roberts WM 201 internet radio & hear a continuous hum. Checked RTE Radio 1, no hum?

My mistake, should be in Radio forum.

Antenna

Mearings wrote: »

My mistake, should be in Radio forum.

Was/is the hum when listening online or FM ? If the latter (terrestrial transmission) I don't see an issue with it being posted here. IF FM, does moving about the radio or nearby power cables make any difference ?

Mearings

Antenna wrote: »

Was/is the hum when listening online or FM ? If the latter (terrestrial transmission) I don't see an issue with it being posted here. IF FM, does moving about the radio or nearby power cables make any difference ?

Listening on line, Roberts WM 201(Reciva) does not have fm. Just checked, the hum is no longer heard. I also got the hum on my Squeezebox Radio (vTuner) (on line).
Thanks.

watty

BTW, the Roberts WM 201 is NOT a Radio at all!

Radio sets receive BROADCAST. Anything only for WiFi/Internet is purely a Streaming Audio / Media playback device. Not a radio.

Mearings

watty wrote: »

BTW, the Roberts WM 201 is NOT a Radio at all!

Radio sets receive BROADCAST. Anything only for WiFi/Internet is purely a Streaming Audio / Media playback device. Not a radio.

But the Squeezebox Radio is called a radio by the manufacturer & Roberts describe their 'listening machine' (as BMW might call it) as a 'Wi-Fi Internet Radio and Media Player' on the box.

I can pick up about 16,000 radio stations on my Streaming Audio / Media playback devices. Hum or no hum.

watty

That just proves the ASA and ASAI are useless. It's just a Internet Streaming client/Media player. My Laptop does that too, as does my Archos 605 WiFi PMP. It has WiFi, which is technically Wireless, but in no way whatsoever is something a "Radio" if it hasn't got AM, CW, SSB, FM, DRM or DAB decoder/demodulator and a tuner for Broadcasts originating well outside your house.

You can't pick up ANY Broadcast Radio Stations on it. Only the same UDP on Internet that my Laptop uses. It relies ENTIRELY on an INTERNET connection, not Radio Reception. The use of WiFi is purely an in house convenience.

It's getting like Humpty Dumpty in "Through the Looking Glass" where Marketing thinks that they can call stuff any name they like.

P.S. I have been designing Radio Systems since late 1970s and Computer Network/Internet systems since 1991. I've worked as senior R&D for an ISP (Internet Service Provider) and also as a Communications Engineer in the BBC.

I can can tell the difference between a real Radio and a gadget that connects to the Internet. Also if you want quality Roberts, buy something refurbished made between 1965 and 1980. Not the modern Badged Chinese style stuff with tiny speakers and loads of plastic. The €149 Roberts Revival sets are real Radios (L, M and VHF) but unfortunately about the quality of a €14.90 radio, with similar insides.

Mearings

So they are not radios then?

fat-tony

No they are not flippin' radios

Fuzzy Clam

Mearings wrote: »

So they are not radios then?

If is doesn't have valves then its not a radio

Of course its a radio. It receives electromagnetic waves. It makes no difference whether those waves eminate from 5 feet or 5 miles away, analogue or digital.