Re: MD: Why MD; My first MD experience

1999-12-06 Thread David W. Tamkin
James Jarvie wrote, | I just bought a Sharp MT-15 (my first venture into the world of MDs). I | made a recording on Saturday with which I am very disappointed. The | recording came from a very well recorded cassette. I patched the RCA | cables from the cassette into the minidisc input of the

RE: MD: Why MD; My first MD experience

1999-12-06 Thread Rick Pali
From: James Jarvie > The recording came from a very well recorded > cassette. I patched the RCA cables from the > cassette into the minidisc input of the MD, > and made my first recording. The quality > stinks. I'm at a loss to explain what went wrong in the dub of the cassette to minidisc Ja

Re: MD: Why MD; My first MD experience

1999-12-06 Thread Jeff DeMaagd
--- James Jarvie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question: Is the compression responsible for the terrible quality recording? Is it that I started with an analogue source (still a bad thing because I want to record many analogue sources as noted above). Audio Quality must be close to a CD or I

MD: Why MD; My first MD experience

1999-12-06 Thread James Jarvie
First, I need to add my 2 cents on the issue of why MD: Audio Quality or Portablility. For me, portability is not the reason for going MD. I have a CD player in the car, and a portable, and both do me quite nicely, thank you. Audio Quality is, of course,important. But again , if it were the o