MD enthusiasts,
For some time now I have wanted to burn my mp3 files to my minidiscs. I am
also the proud owner of a Mac powerbook with USB ports. A friend of mine
suggested that look into buying a Roland UA-30 USB audio interface. What
this device essentially does is it transfers the mp3 signal
Donald Person wrote:
> Jeez. Why do I feel the need to defend myself? I dunno. I obviously
> didn't intend to compare CD sound quality to MD. There is an obvious
> difference to me (especially in my Classical recordings..)
Are you saying that there is an obvious difference in sound quality
> This is so bloody ridiculous!! MD is far better than CD-R or CD-RW!
>Sorry. But here I cannot agree with you. How can a data compressed format
>possibly be superior to a properly dithered uncompressed digital recording?
>This statement just doesn't make sense.
Jeez. Why do I feel the need
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:26:03 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David W. Tamkin)
wrote:
>If you just subscribed to this list
Yes, I'm back after a two year leave of absence. Now that I've added a cd-rw to
my hi fi setup I actually have a renewed interest in MD. I bought into MD to
move my vinyl c
Larry said:
> But it doesn't look good for in the US at this point. People are so
stupid.
That's true. Just about a week ago, my 20 yr old brother started to use my
MDs. He has about 300 cassettes all of live recorded material, and he was
perfectly content with them. Well, after a week using
John Small wrote,
| BTW, can you play back the 940 non-LP MD's on a prior generation player and
| get the same quality benefits?
First, it's not a matter of LP or SP discs, but of LP or SP tracks; tracks
recorded in different modes can coexist on the same disc.
Generally, you'll get the effect
Dan Scellen wrote:
> That's true. Just about a week ago, my 20 yr old brother started to use my
> MDs. He has about 300 cassettes all of live recorded material, and he was
> perfectly content with them. Well, after a week using MDs, he said to me
> last night "Minidisc is the way to go. Why
las wrote:
>
> In my humble opinion, if you can make electronics that can keep the distortion
> as low (unfortunately this becomes very hard with analog tubes, tape, vinyl,
> etc.), the frequency response as wide, the signal to noise ratio as good and the
> dynamic range as wide, analog would so
> only part of that thread that you saw unless you
visited the MD-L archives.
Speaking of the archives, what's up with them? There's
no 2001 posts in there (unless i'm missing something)
Josh.
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"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
> I wouldn't say "danger," just "theoretical possibility." That thread was
> strictly speculation; having been computerless for six days, I was catching
> up with the list last night, so my post to it came later than everyone
> else's. If you just subscribed to this li
John Small quoted from a post of mine,
> If MD dies in the US
and commented,
| Sorry, I came in late on this thread. Is there some danger of the format
| dying in the US?
I wouldn't say "danger," just "theoretical possibility." That thread was
strictly speculation; having been computerless
Don Capps wrote:
> A. This is a common argument forwarded by the subjectivist camp in audio
> jounalism. So...in other words...we can't trust our OWN ears and therefore
> must trust those of a magazine reviewer or an audio salon salesman to tell
> us which sounds better, no? Is there no objec
Don Capps wrote:
> A. This is a common argument forwarded by the subjectivist camp in audio
> jounalism. So...in other words...we can't trust our OWN ears and therefore
> must trust those of a magazine reviewer or an audio salon salesman to tell
> us which sounds better, no? Is there no obje
I've always felt we've been the Betamax of the audio world... not a bad
thing, unless everyone stops marketing blanks.
(Remember Betamax? It was the format that was superior to VHS... and
disappeared.)
>
> Are we in danger of become another Betamax?
>
> -jts
> -
"Francisco J. Huerta" wrote:
> I've always felt we've been the Betamax of the audio world... not a bad
> thing, unless everyone stops marketing blanks.
>
> (Remember Betamax? It was the format that was superior to VHS... and
> disappeared.)
>
I know that this is getting way off of the topic. B
John Small wrote:
>
> The transport on my 510 has jammed. Happened when I inserted an MD this evening
> just when I was feeling all smug that my Sony MD equipment has been working
> flawlessly (510, R50, E40). When I remove the top from the unit I can see al
> arge plastic gear on the top back
>Correct me if I am wrong here, but I think that LDs predate the CD.
>And yes, audio was analogue. I don't think the quality was very high,
>though. All analogue audio LDs I own had a noise reduction encoding scheme
>in them; I think it was called "CX". And the analogue tracks always sounded
>uns
From: "las" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The first sense to fatigue is olfactory (smell). But hearing can't be far
down the line. If you keep A/B testing the more you do it the more
difficult it becomes to tell one from the other. When you are dealing with
clear differences such as the sound from a T
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 00:59:58 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If MD dies in the US
Sorry, I came in late on this thread. Is there some danger of the format dying
in the US? It seems the blanks have become more plentiful so I assumed this
parallel and increase in the maket. No so?
Are
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If you find an answer..let me know...I had the
Timothy Stockman wrote,
| For this reason, I suggest NEVER SET
| THE DIGITAL RECORD GAIN TO A NEGATIVE VALUE under normal circumstances.
Did you mean never to set the ANALOG recording gain to a negative value (be-
cause it can clip without admitting it)? You've posted about this before,
and as
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