Hmmmm... Ok - so if I'm recording digitally, I still hear the same
artifacts. So that rules out the ADCs unless the Sharp has some kooky
DAC->ADC design on the digital input. Which I'm pretty sure it doesn't.
As for the guy who says 'get some better headphones' : The music I'm
recording *HAS* hisss in the track. Better headphones would just let me
hear the hisss better. My headphones are plugged into my minidisc
headphone-out socket. If I record (either digitally or via analogue
line-in) into my sharp831 I get a chance to preview the music as it goes
into the MD recorder ... and it sounds NOTICEABLY different on record
preview to how it sounds when I playback what I've just recorded - on the
same MD unit - using the same headphones.
So the actual headphones used are irrelevant here.
Ideas or knowledge, anyone? (Should I maybe consider taking it back to the
shop I bought it at? I've listened to a MD recorded on some Aiwa cheapy
portable MD unit and it still sounds better than my twice-the-price Sharp
portable.)
Hey, are maybe Sharp portables not very good? And does the Aiwa portable use
(as I suspect it probably does) the same ATRAC chipset as developed+used by
Sony for the Sony portables?
dave
> > I find that my Sharp-831 does not offer particularly good
> > compression. I can
> > clearly HEAR the artifacts, especially if the music contains a
> > quiet passage
> > that contains a proportionately large amount of background hiss, and on
> > cymbals, hihats, etc.
>
> Just remember, it could also be due to the ADCs. Decks often have much
> better ADCs than portables.
>
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