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The Ratman is right again. In fact the entire subjective topic of "high, low,
or mid" quality makes no sense to me.
There is no official classification in this regard. What parameters do you
use? Technical measurements? Listening tests?
After all that a high end system can sound really bad in a "bad room". The room
is as critical any other part of the system.
Larry
> There are two technical errors in that statement:
>
> ATRAC uses 5:1 bitwise reduction but no additional data compression. MD-74
> can hold 74 minutes of music, the same as CD-DA, on a disc 1/5 the size of
> a CD because it is storing exactly 1/5 the number of bits.
>
> Bitwise reduction does not make the stream more compressible.
>
> | This is, coincidentally, why audio MD equipment would be very poor for
> | data storage. I believe this has been discussed on-list a few times.
>
> People have used inherently "lossy" analog schemes for reliable data
> storage and transmission for decades. It really depends on the modulation
> scheme used. It would not be as efficient as writing to the raw device but
> there is no technical reason why it could not work.
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