on 3/15/01 2:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My question was, because i have a r55 and an r90, does LP2 stereo sound better > or is it comparable to standard mono? and is the r900 really better than the > r90? Here's part of a message I sent just after I got my R900 on the sound quality of the LP modes: ---------- > Last night I spent a couple of hours checking out the sound quality on my > R900 and comparing it to my R50. To do this, I recorded "The throne room > and end title" from the Star Wars suite digitally to a disc on the R50, > then moved the disc to the R900 and recorded it again using standard > stereo and LP2 modes. Then I listened to all 4 recordings through the > R900 using my Sony NC10 earbuds. (The CD was played through the R900 with > the R900 paused in record mode.) > > On a scale of 1-10 with the CD being placed at 10, this is how I would > rank the sound quality of the various recordings: > > Recorded on R50: 9.5 > R900 stereo: 9.8 > R900 LP2: 9.2 > > I didn't specifically test the LP4 mode in this manner, but I have used > it. I would probably rate it somewhere around 7.6. > > I should note that it took very, very careful listening with my eyes > closed and as little outside noise as possible for me to be able to hear > the differences between the 4 versions. I would say that under normal > listening conditions there would be no detectable differences between the > recordings. ---------- As to your question about the R90 vs. R900, my not so humble opinion is that the R900 is the definite, hands down winner. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed "What the" Heckman [EMAIL PROTECTED] +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to | | confuse them. | | -- Madeleine L'Engle | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
