Digital car radio, what a cunt.
The recent Benny mobile came furnished with a radio cassette player.
The car was purchased from the grounds of an old peoples home and judging by the log book its last owners from new had all been residents of the establishment and the car passed on as driving licences or owners expired.
Well tis quite a nice car apart from the stereo, which needed upgrading, perhaps a CD player?
Well being me (optimistic and poor) I decided to shop round for a new radio, in fact the first brand new car radio that I have ever purchased, I was surprised to find that these devices can pair with your phone and become a hands free set, an option that I did not choose was “remote control” this goes against my belief that its my car and you are not to touch anything on the dash board.
However I did go for the DAB option, this is digital radio of some sort, so once installed I decided to try it out, lot of strange stations out there and not all of them in range so fuck that, back to FM we go.
Or do we? This shit box seems to have a mind of its own, I select a station FM, it tolerates it for a bit then decides it will give me the better quality digital version.
This creates an annoying repeat of last phrase, lyric a sudden increase in clarity, but does not take into account that I am listening to FM for the reason the digital signal round here is shit so I will loose digital signal a little further down the road and it will have to reselect FM (probably at some breaking news point) in all truth its shit, just a perk that I wasn’t going to use on my nice brand new over glorified CD Player.
Nominated by lord benny




