Gerard Naude wrote,
| At the end of the day ATRAC is just a big math algorithm. The speed at
| which the algorithm is applied does not matter.
It does for processing power, and as Graham Baker has pointed out, for the
write mechanism to keep up. But please read on; Gerard continued,
| The only other
| limit I can think of is the speed at which the platter of the actual disc
| can be spun, but considering most MD players/recorders use a buffer, it
| means that they spin the disc faster than 1x anyway.
It's not MD writing but rather the signal that has been limited to 1x.
There already, before Net MD, have been ways of writing to MD faster than
1x, such as copies between MD-B5s, track moves on an MDS-W1, or CD-to-MD
copying on combo units. The trick was that the data did not go over a
regular cable nor, except with the B5s, even between devices. An analog
transfer or an S/PDIF transfer is a relatively narrow tube through which
audio can move only at 1x, no matter how fast the source can try to pour it
in or the destination can try to empty it.
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