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Christian, your observations are interesting. I'm forwarding them to
the MD mailing list and will add them to the ATRAC problem report
page. -Rick
>Just saw the page 'atrac_breakdown' and I'm happy reading something
>about this subject I haven't found anything about up till now.
>
>Maybe the reason for the atrac-breakdown, or whatever it is, is not
>the recording but the playback section of the Sharp MD-recorder.
>
>I experienced the same error on some of the recordings on a Sharp 701.
>The sound that appears at some points sounds a bit like a clipping
>signal caused by digital overdrive. The recordings were made with
>different CD-Players and on MD's of different brands. The errors only
>occured when recording digital, I never experienced any errors when
>recording with analog cable.
>
>To find out about the reason for the errors I made a short test with
>two MD recorders, Sharp MD-MS701H(S)2 and Aiwa XM-R70. A track (see
>below) was played with the CD player (Technics SL-PG490)and recorded
>with the digital cable on the recorders.
>
>Result:
>
>1.Errors could only be heard when playing the disc on the Sharp. When
> playing both recordings on the Aiwa, no drop-outs could be found !
>
>2.Playing the disc on the Sharp and comparing the two recordings it
> shows that most of them are at the same points. Also, a few appear
> only on the Aiwa-recorded track a few others only on the
> Sharp-recorded. Some of them are very loud and others can be hardly
> noticed, especially when they go with a high snare stroke.
>
>3.The error does not appear by chance, i.e when shaking the recorder,
> but always when the track is played.
>
>finally- the reason may not only be the recording-, but the playback
>section of the Sharp.
>
>Used CD:
>
>The track that causes lots of those clipping like signals can be found
>on the CD 'Red Hot & Cool'. It's the 5th track called 'Flying high in
>the brooklyn sky'. times: 00:37, 00.59, 01:40, 1:30, 01:50, 02:38,
>02:48, 04:00, 04:39, ...
>
>Equipment:
>
>CD-Player: Technics SL-PG490, Technics SL-PG590, Sony CDP-XE530
>MD-Recorder:Sharp MD-MS701H(S)2, Aiwa XM-R70
>all recordings were made with digital cable
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