On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:46:43AM -0700, Dan Frakes wrote:
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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
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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
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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 Tandberg 3-header
I got this nice reply re that circuit city web page:
Dear Mr. Gray,
It
?s always a pleasure hear from one of our customers, but when we can
learn
ways to improve our web site in the process we always feel we've gotten
the
better end of the bargain.
As a result of your note to us, we
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
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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 guarantee you'll hear a tape that sounds better
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 over
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
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
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Dan Frakes wrote:
That's what I meant by "it's still a cassette, though" grin 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
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Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you
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
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.
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 Responds
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 06:0
[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
I sent my own reply to Circuit City regarding their website:
To: George Barr
Re: MiniDisc
This is not to start or perpetuate a feud on the Minidisc issue, but
only to point out that what was objectionable about your web statement
about the MiniDisc is that you are comparing it to the CD,
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
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 than MD.
say
they are all commie's :P
- Original Message -
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 he thinks
he
can hear the difference
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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 an
be 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 the difference in sound quality
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 and
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
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