Richard Lang wrote,
| Now while we're on the subject of MD to MD dubbing, if you have two decks
| with difference ATRAC, say one with ATRAC 4.5 and one with ATRAC R (or ATRAC
| 3 vs ATRAC 4.5), is there any consenus as to which should be recording and
| which should be playing?
There is virtually, perhaps literally, no difference among decoding algo-
rithms: ATRAC versions differ wholly or almost wholly in their encoding.
Therefore you'll want to record with the better ATRAC implementation.
| My understanding is that even with digital connections, the music still gets
| compressed on it's way "out" of the playing deck and compressed on it's way
| "in" to the recording deck. With analogue you are also dealing with A D/A
| converter and an A/D converter.
It is decompressed on its way out and recompressed on its way in: the signal
between the two machines is regular audio (analog or S/PDIF). The loss of
data occurs during the compression stage.
| My rule of thumb is that when dubbing betweem different machines, the best
| machine should be playing, because that creates the best source for
| recording. Anyone? - Is this right? Or doesn't it matter?
No, it's wrong, as Dave Kimmel has said: the better ATRAC version should be
used for recording, the poorer one for playback.
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