Steve Corey wrote:
I was a die-hard uncompressed PCM DAT fan for years. When MD's first
came out, they sounded terrible, so I wrote off the format. Then a
person, whose ears I trusted, said that I should really check out the
new MD's. I was impressed, and now am the proud owner of a
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Tony Antoniou wrote:
So what is HiFi? Whatever appears to be of greatest fidelity to the
individual. THAT is HiFi
"Fidelity" is an objective term. It
means faithfulness. Which means
that the what you hear is as close to
the original as possible. It is true or
"faithful" to it.
Me being on the digest, this may've already been addressed, but just to
continue in the hair-splitting vein:
Some people
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But if "better" means more faithful to the original, ATRAC R is still lossy,
and
uncompressed digital audio on DAT or CD is bette
Tony Antoniou wrote:
So what is HiFi? Whatever appears to be of greatest fidelity to the
individual. THAT is HiFi. There is no ultimate answer.
Tony, this is one time that I have to disagree with you. It is only semantics
but your statement is incorrect. Don't confuse the terms fidelity
Tony Antoniou wrote:
So what is HiFi? Whatever appears to be of greatest fidelity to the
individual. THAT is HiFi. There is no ultimate answer.
Tony, this is one time that I have to disagree with you. It is only semantics
but your statement is incorrect. Don't confuse the terms "fidelity"
I have recently learned that I own a MiniDisc deck (Sony JE-330) that uses
the newest ATRAC-R compression scheme.
I have heard that this new form of compression creates a recording that is
etiher equivalent to or even BETTER than DAT.is there any truth in
this?
Chris Moore wrote,
| I have recently learned that I own a MiniDisc deck (Sony JE-330) that uses
| the newest ATRAC-R compression scheme.
| I have heard that this new form of compression creates a recording that is
| etiher equivalent to or even BETTER than DAT.is there any truth in
|
But if "better" means more faithful to the original, ATRAC R is still lossy, and
uncompressed digital audio on DAT or CD is better by that definition.
Firs of, David, I know I shouldn't be tying right now.
I get the distinct impression defined better as a fidelity thing. And as you
stated,
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ATRAC can never surpass CD quality since it stores less information than
CD-DA. For the same reasons, equal quality is also theoretically
impossible, and practically impossible without increasing the bit stream
allowed (24-bits/sample I believe).
I"m not totaly
Andrew wrote:
(hence, "wavelet"), and can reproduce the signal almost *exactly*
by compositing the wavelets at playback. This breaks the bounds of
Nyquist's rule, which states that you must sample at double the highest
frequency you wish to represent... because you're no longer sampling.
Magic wrote:
If I take a sound file which is 44.1kHz in 16bit, the same as CD, and ZIP
it
with WinZIP, it occupies less space. If I did this with all the music from
one of my CDs, I could probably copy those ZIP files onto another CD and
fit
two CDs worth of music onto it (although a
Wrote RJ Kirkland [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Actually the amount of data stored on an MD could be increased by 8x
without a blue laser, simply a slightly different red one. MD-Data2 uses
the different laser and a smaller track pitch to achieve a 5x increase in
disk capacity. Maxell has already
ATRAC can never surpass CD quality since it stores less information than
CD-DA. For the same reasons, equal quality is also theoretically
impossible, and practically impossible without increasing the bit stream
allowed (24-bits/sample I believe).
Actually the amount of data stored on an MD
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Subject: RE: MD: ATRAC-R and Laser Colors
ATRAC can never surpass CD quality since it stores less information than
CD-DA. For the same reasons, equal quality is also theoretically
impossible
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