RE: MD: Co-ax v's Optical (must read).
Date sent: Mon, 29 May 2000 13:11:56 +0100 From: Simon Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:RE: MD: Co-ax v's Optical (must read). > Guy Churchill wrote: > > > The ONLY conclusion I can reach is that with my CD player and > this > recording equipment, optical and co-ax digital are exactly > the same. > > Only the truly naive would believe a pile of dumb machinery over the > acute auditory perception of an objective audiophile. you're joking, right? Remco - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Salvaging a recording made with levels set too high?
> If you've got digital clipping (lots of clicks) you're pretty much out > of luck, as the information needed to reconstruct what was lost it is > just gone. > With digital clipping your pretty much out of luck to restore it. If the clipping is not very audible and doesn't occur all the time you could try the "clip restorer" from Cool Edit Pro. It won't sound like new but maybe it'll sound a little better. But I am affraid that there is no rescue possible. good luck, Remco Meeder - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD How good is the sound?
D > during a quiet passage in the music! Who really gives a damn. The main > reason I purchased a MiniDisc was that I could have quality sound at a > price a lot less that DAT prices. Plus the flexability over CDs, i.e > moving, combining and deleting of tracks. The other reason was, that I > can use it in conjunction with my "Mobile Disco", Not for mixing, > scratching or any of that crap, but just to be able to copy tired 60s > and 70s vinyl to MD and have instant access to it. Hi, I totally agree with you here... Sony has allways targeted MD as a replacement for normal audio cassettes. Not as a replacement for DAT or CD. And for portable it is the best compromise. Discmans sound good but are way to large to fit into any pocket. A tapewalkman is very cheap, but hasn't got the best soundquality. A MP3 player has, for PORTABLE use rerasonable soundquality, but is way to expensive and you need a computer to use them. MD is not to expensive, small, cheap media, long running times and are virtually shockproof (my MZ-E33 with 10 secs of shock mem never lost track when walking or cycling, most portables feature 40 secs now...). And I allso like MD very much for in home use. The editing functions are unsurpassed. No CD-R drive, Tape recorder or DAT recorder has the same features. What I am trying to tell is: Stop comparing MD recorders with DAT, or CD-R drives. To me it is allmost impossible to tell the difference between a digitally recorded MD and a CD. MD is a great format and for portable it is the best format and it will still take some time before MP3 or whatever format can pass MD. Remco - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: A question..
Date sent: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:06:56 -0500 From: "J. Coon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:Re: MD: A question.. > Yep, you can buy a PC with a good sound card. > A little off-topic... but anyone who knows the mac doesn't want to go back to a PC... Remco - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MP3 versus MiniDisc
> It's like the Sony-Sharp battle on this list. I must admit I'm a > Sharpy, why? simple, I've got a 702 that has never failed on me. I've > got also the MDS-S38 home-deck (a 510 in midi size) with all the 510 > bugs in it (turning on, display flickering, grinding noizes). And a > MDX-7900R car-head which sometimes doesn't want to accept a disk. > (Randomly... Disks are ranging from HiSpace to Sony and several Maxell > disks. They ALL give troubles (sometimes).) I got a MDS-JE510 which has NEVER had any problems, it plays on and on without any hint of the "known 510 bugs" Those bugs were allmost all related to the Malaysian units. I got the European model which was made in Japan and it is absolutely trouble free. Those Malaysian units take down the whole 510 range allso the perfect ones... > > I just don't find anything compelling (yet) about those overpriced > > little MP3 boxes, sorry. Maybe I'd feel differently if I listened to > > tunes during high-g sports activites. > > That's about the only pre on MP3, that it is shockproof, but I think that the modern MD units with 40 secs or more memory will hardly ever skip... And one other strange thing Look at the battery life some MD units play for as long as 50 hours on a rechargeable cell... Most of the MP3 units will not even make it to 20 hours and they got no moving parts in them at all Remco - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: How ATRAC actually compresses the audio?
> I know that ATRAC compresses the audio somewhat by removing all > the frequencies that the human ear cannot hear. I have also found out > another way that it might compress the audio. I recorded one of my > lectures onto MD and then transferred it onto as .wav file on my > computer. When I zoomed into the waveform of the sound, there wasn't > a continuous wave, there were many little 'packets of sound'. Now I > think that the MD must also take the 'packets' so fast that we can not > distinguish them as seperate (kind of like the 24 frames per second in > a movie). What do other people think? There is a whitepaper somewhere on the MDCP pages on how ATRAC works. I got it here, but it is to large to include as a mail message. Remco - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience
On 22 Feb 00, at 21:11, Edward Nigma wrote: > using good equipment, SACD and Dvd-audio should have the analog warmth afaik. > > E. Nigma But what is analog warmth. AFAIK analog warmth is nothing more then plain distortion of the signal. Vinyl sounds warmer then a CD because the signal is more distorted then the signal from a CD. Remco - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
