Timothy Stockman posted,
| MD does not use "joint stereo" (except LP4 mode); it records left and right
| channels separately, so there should be no reason that the stereo image
| should be narrower.
Indeed, somebody posted here several years ago that ATRAC would tend to
*spread* stereo separation wider. The theory went like this: ATRAC encoding
analyzes each channel separately, so if the separation is fairly wide to
start, say, one component is 90% left and 10% right while another is 10% left
and 90% right, there might be so little of the right-side sound in the left
channel and so little of the left-side sound in the right channel that ATRAC
would consider it masked and would drop it entirely, resulting in keeping
only the left-side sound in the left channel and only the right-side sound
in the right channel.
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