On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:46:43AM -0700, Dan Frakes wrote:
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I don't know who's listening for you, but there is no tape in
> >existance that can compare favorably to MD.
>
> If you ever have a chance, listen to a Nakamichi Dragon deck with $25
> blanks. I guaran
Since I became president of the sight and sound club this is auctually
something a lot of people asked when I used my MiniDisc JE510 deck to
record concerts rather than thier crappy tape deck. This lead me that I
need to run some blind listening tests.
Seeing as we auctually had some advanced e
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> Ralph Smeets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> If you ever have a chance, listen to a Nakamichi Dragon deck with $25
> >> blanks. I guarantee you'll hear a tape that sounds better than MD.
> >>
> >> Of course, it's still a cassette, though ;-)
> >
> >Well, my (very) old T
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> Shawn Lin wrote:
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> I have been told the opposite by several alleged Nakamichi Dragon owners
> that said their cheap MDS-JE510 decks sounded better.
>
> Go figure.
>
> Shawn
>
> I really find it impossible that any cassette deck, no matter how expensive
> could
On 4/11/00 4:51 PM, Ralph Smeets wrote:
> And price-performance? To use metal-tape and to listen to it, you need
> the best tape-deck in the world. Like the Nakomichi Dragon. But be
> prepared to pay more then for a normal MD-deck.
> Metal-tape walkmans exists, but are rare to find and also exp
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Ralph Smeets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If y
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Dan Frakes wrote:
> That's what I meant by "it's still a cassette, though" I'll take
> MD over cassette any day of the week for any purpose. I'll take MD over
> CD for anything portable. Just so no one doubts my passion for MD ;-) I
> was just pointing out that the asser
las <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I really find it impossible that any cassette deck, no matter how
>expensive could sound as good as a decent MD recorder.
Why is that? MD by design compresses the musical signal. It does a very
good job, but it is still discarding some data. In order to make a b
Shawn Lin wrote:
I have been told the opposite by several alleged Nakamichi Dragon owners
that said their cheap MDS-JE510 decks sounded better.
Go figure.
Shawn
I really find it impossible that any cassette deck, no matter how expensive
could sound as good as a decent MD recorder.
What do th
Jason wrote:
> I thought someone could try ripping an audio track from
> CD to their hard drive, then record the same track to MD
> digitally and then, back to their hard drive digitally.
> Then take the track ripped from the MD, invert it, and
> then mix it directly ove
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I don't know who's listening for you, but there is no tape in
> >existance that can compare favorably to MD.
>
> If you ever have a chance, listen to a Nakamichi Dragon deck with $25
> blanks. I guarantee you'll hear a tape that sounds be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks for writing with your comments. As a fellow lover of quality sound I'm
> always glad to hear from those with different opinions. Heck...that's part of
> what makes audio fun. Let me first say that I think you misunderstood part of
> what we are saying about mini-
> Is it possible to scientifically measure the difference in sound quality
> between a CD and an MD?
Yes it actually is ... each is a different wave form. But what counts is whether
we hear a difference.
> All these claims made by "golden" ears who can hear
> the difference between a CD an
due to the audiovox receiver
and speakers he's using too.
- Original Message -
From: Faizal Y. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 6:34 AM
Subject: Re: MD: Circuit City Responds
>
> Is it possible to scientifically measure
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Is it possible to scientifically measure the difference in sound quality
> between a CD and an MD? All these claims made by "golden" ears who can hear
> the difference between a CD and an MD may be purely subjective to personal
> tastes. Does anyone on this list have
... I say
they are all commie's :P
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From: Paul Kowtiuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 5:01 AM
Subject: Re: MD: Circuit City Responds
>
> The rep from Circuit City replied to a list member saying that
Dan Frakes wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I don't know who's listening for you, but there is no tape in
> >existance that can compare favorably to MD.
>
> If you ever have a chance, listen to a Nakamichi Dragon deck with $25
> blanks. I guarantee you'll hear a tape that sounds better th
This might be a crap question and totally unrelated, but
I thought someone could try ripping an audio track from CD to their hard drive, then
record the same track to MD digitally and then, back to their hard drive digitally.
Then take the track ripped from the MD, invert it, and then mix
On 4/10/00 8:49 AM, Paul Kowtiuk wrote:
> The rep from Circuit City replied to a list member saying that he thinks he
> can hear the difference between CD source and MD copy. My question is, has
> he heard the lastest ATRAC-versioned MDs or is this something he noticed
> back in 1991?
I'll bet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I don't know who's listening for you, but there is no tape in
>existance that can compare favorably to MD.
If you ever have a chance, listen to a Nakamichi Dragon deck with $25
blanks. I guarantee you'll hear a tape that sounds better than MD.
Of course, it's still a
that costs nearly as
much as your house and still use MD? I wonder what these MD using
audiophiles have to say...
questions.
Faizal
>From: "Paul Kowtiuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: MD: Circuit City Res
The rep from Circuit City replied to a list member saying that he thinks he
can hear the difference between CD source and MD copy. My question is, has
he heard the lastest ATRAC-versioned MDs or is this something he noticed
back in 1991? I'd ask him myself, but I don't have his email address.
F
Circuit City sent me a reply to a question about their statments about MD on
their website. The reply is listed first, followed by the question that I
sent them:
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Circuit City
Dear Mr. Callahan:
Thanks for writing with your comments. As a fellow lover of qua
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