From: "Stainless Steel Rat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> * "Dave Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 10 Nov 2000
> | I am not! This is the only piece of Sony equipment which I own ...
which I
> | have EVER owned!
>
> Huh? Are you saying that the Sharp recorder was the very first MD
recorder
> you ever listened to? If so, then what were you comparing it against to
> say that it "sounds like shit"?
Yes, that is precisely what I am saying. I thought it was pretty obvious
what I was comparing:
1) The original CD
2) MD recorded on my Sharp 831
- obvious because I was commenting on CLEARLY audible artifacts in the MD
audio that weren't in the original.
I later added into the comparison
3) MDs recorded on a friends Sony deck
when I began to notice that the MDs I'd recorded on my Sharp didn't actually
sound very good at all.
You know about MP3 encoding, right? It sounded like a 96kbps MP3 file, or
perhaps a badly encoded 128kbps MP3 file (like you get with the "8HZ"
encoder). I was kinda expecting MD to sound 'as good as' (note the
apostrophes) CD, and I had already experienced MP3 and surmised that low
bitrate MP3 files don't actually hold their own against CDs very well. When
I discovered that the MDs recorded on the Sharp didn't sound much better
than (substandard quality) MP3 files I began to investigate further. Like I
already said.
dave
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