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or md portables that can transfer files rather than recording....
i belive...if one thing that lacks when it comes to MD is the
recording speed I mean if somehow someway the speed is
on the same level as them mp3 players...i am sure there are
tons of peoples who wouldn't even have a second thought
when it comes to MD....but even then i can live with slow
speed when i compare the costs :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: MD: What is Sony thinking?!?
>
> this kinda has to do with this subject, but only a little. last evening
we
> had some nasty snowy weather here and our power was out for about 10 hrs.
> right after it went out i decided, since i was wide awake, to listen to
some
> music, i got out my trusty portable MD player and started to listen to it.
> just laying there i realized one super major bigtime realization(ok well
> maybe it isn't so bigtime) if you are listening to MD on a portable that
has
> been digitally copied, IMO you can not tell the difference between the
> original and the copy, at least on sub $150 headphones or any earbuds.
> However just the opposite can be stated about MP3's, i can be listening
with
> crappy $0.99 earphones and definately tell the difference between the
> original and the copy. Anyway i got that out of my system, i love my MD
> players and i've converted many people over from getting portable MP3
> players to getting MD players, after they realize how much media costs for
> mp3 players and how bad they exactly sound they realize how big of a piece
> of crap they are. Hopefully some day there will be a good solid state
> solution that has no or extremely little cd loss with high compression,
but
> until that time comes i'm sticking with MD.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "chaulsr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 9:03 AM
> Subject: RE: MD: What is Sony thinking?!?
>
>
> >
> > >From what I observed Sony had changed the way it market MD in the past
2
> years.
> >
> > When I first saw MD about 10 years ago, it advertised as Compact,
Digital
> Audio, Near CD sound quality, and most important, Recordable/Editable. As
> that time Sony is targetting the audio tape, so that make sense for all
that
> claims. And MD does a good job and take over most of the market from audio
> tape.
> >
> > But what happened in recent years is the new MP3 format which started
with
> a software only implementation and later got hardware implemented, plus
the
> advancement of memory technology which end up a price drop. So a MP3
player
> make sense and most computer users can easily produce/collect their own
MP3
> collections.
> >
> > So we now see Sony kindly offer us USB connection and MDLP which
extended
> the fantasy of MD. I guess that's toward the Computer users rather than
the
> audio market.
> >
> > And last, personally I prefer MD. It's easy to record, I just snap in a
CD
> and a MD then press several buttons. For MP3, I need to go through all
those
> softwares and have to spare my computer. And for the long run, MD should
be
> cheaper.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents.
> >
> > Raymond
> >
> >
> >
> > How can the folks at Sony be so thick-headed?
> > >
> > >The Fall 2000 issue of Sony Style magazine advises us to connect the
USB
> > >PCLink to our computers to "record mixes to your MD recorder with
almost
> no
> > >loss in sound quality."
> > >
> > >To further reinforce their contention that MD doesn't sound as good as
> it
> > >could, they go on to advertise their MDW-80D premium discs as being
> > >constructed in a way that "reduces vibrations during disc rotation to
> > >produce even better sound."
> > >
> > >While MP3 advocates crow about their "near CD sound quality," Sony
> seems to
> > >want to warn people that Minidisc doesn't really sound that good.
> > >
> > >
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