MD: Sony 940 deck

2000-07-28 Thread cosmo


Does anyone yet own the Sony 940 deck?  the specs don't show it recording in mono, 
that's surely not been left
out, has it?


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Re: MD: Sony 940 deck

2000-07-28 Thread Leon


If I'm not mistaken, the 940 can do up to 320 minutes of stereo recording,
from using ATRAC3 encoding.  So Sony may have left mono recording out.

It's highly likely that it will play mono tracks, though.

Leon

 Does anyone yet own the Sony 940 deck?  the specs don't show it recording in
 mono, that's surely not been left
 out, has it?

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Re: MD: Sony 940 deck

2000-07-28 Thread David W. Tamkin


Leon theorized,

| If I'm not mistaken, the 940 can do up to 320 minutes of stereo recording,
| from using ATRAC3 encoding.  So Sony may have left mono recording out.

I hope not, though.  It makes no sense to reduce the bit-rate by 50% to make
room to have redundant copies of identical left and right tracks if the
material is monaural.  I'd rather write 160 minutes of mono at full bit-rate
than two copies of it at half the rate, or 320 minutes of mono at half the
rate rather than two copies of it at one-fourth the bit-rate.  And that's
assuming that nobody would have use for 640 minutes of mono on a single disc,
but I'm sure there are some good uses for it (overnight security phone line
or security desk microphone transcripts, for example).

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