I am a little confused and disappointed by some of the things that I have read
recently here on the list.
I have always felt that the quality of an MD copied from a CD (digitally) is
almost indistinguishable on equipment manufactured within the last year or 2.
Now I am finding multiple
* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 20 Aug 2000
| I have always felt that the quality of an MD copied from a CD (digitally) is
| almost indistinguishable on equipment manufactured within the last year or 2.
Extend that back about to about 4 years, with the introduction of Sony
ATRAC 4. Generally
Not such a hot deal.
Link below has a 5 pack for $10. I'm sure that is not the cheapest either...
http://www.electronicsemall.com/son5mdw74axm.html
Kudos,
Nathan White
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Eric Woudenberg
So Chris, what kind of stripper did you mean? A varnish solvent? An
ecdysi-
ast to entertain you during the dubbing process?
I'll consider myself chastised for my ignorance about pre-recorded MDs and
their SCMS setting and I thank you, David, for setting me straight.
Personally, though, I
Chris followed up,
| I'll consider myself chastised for my ignorance about pre-recorded MDs and
| their SCMS setting and I thank you, David, for setting me straight.
Please don't feel chastised. Upbraiding you was not part of the plan at all;
I couldn't resist the puns but they weren't
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From: "Dan Frakes" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, but the problem is that all of the above is a CD vs. MD sound
comparison. I agree that MD doesn't sound as good as CD. However, your
original claim, to which I was responding, was that high-bitrate MP3
sounds better than
las [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Guess I've never seen much use for pre-recorded MDs.
But compact cassettes had a large market share in the prerecorded
area. Even though the durability and fidelity was poor. The MD does
everything the cassette does only better and with many more options
(not
las [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's not quite true, Larry. If you look up "psychosomatic" in a
modern dictionary, it has two definitions. The first is medical.
The second is "relating to or concerned with the influence of the mind
on the body" and can relate to any situation where the mind
I'm not the only one !! I just did a quick search on altavista and came
up
with this:
http://minidisc.org/hearing_sharp_atrac.html
Although I did also find this as a kind of response
http://minidisc.org/hearing_sharp_atrac.html
Oops ... that second URL ought to be
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 02:24:16 -0400, las [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a little confused and disappointed by some of the things that I
have read recently here on the list.
I have always felt that the quality of an MD copied from a CD
(digitally) is almost indistinguishable on equipment
What does this mean, and how do I test it?
I'm guessing 'monauralizing anomalies' means a tendancy for the ATRAC chip
to screw up the stereo imaging during compression by making the assumption
that the listener won't notice?
dave
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From: "David W. Tamkin" [EMAIL
When recording mono from analog, it appears that it would be best to mix to
mono before the signal reaches the MD, then connect only one input channel
of the MD, leaving the other unconnected. To get the level correct, the
digital record level would have to be set at +6 dB (higher is OK; lower
I am considering getting a combo cd-md combo deck for a friend. Are the lp
md's out in the us. Does this combo exist yet in lp mode.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Yaniv
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Timothy P. Stockman wrote:
When recording mono from analog, it appears that it would be best to mix to
mono before the signal reaches the MD, then connect only one input channel
of the MD, leaving the other unconnected. To get the level correct, the
digital record
Hi All,
quality between brands of MDs are in the realms of belief and imagination.
| ... and man-made definitions.
In my experience, woman-made definitions are not any more objective.
But if you're a man, woman made definitions are always more correct,
unless you're a married man when
Someone wrote:
| That isn't Psychoacoustics! Psychoacoustics is in fact the complete
| opposite!
I think the other poster might have meant "psychosomatics." You believe
something, so your body reacts accordingly.
Then there is the psychoceramic too. Isn't that what some of the
At 8/20/00 8:56 PM, las increased the world's knowledge by typing:
But there were records around. All they had to do was buy the record which
was cheaper than the prerecorded tape to begin with and make a copy of the
record. This is exactly the analogy that you are making between the CD and
MiniDisc Community Pages News for 13 August 2000
o MD competition? Ilwoong Pyo points out the [1]MET 8cm CD/MP3 player,
though not tiny (98x93x23mm), nor particuarly long playing (4 hours
battery life) it does offer 3-6 hours of MP3 audio capacity on cheap
mini-CD media. (No price
"Psychoceramic-- crackpot.
Jim, that joke is older then the invention of the mandolin!
Larry
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