Re: MD: in-car MD portable adaptor

2000-11-25 Thread J. Coon
Phat Ha wrote: How is the sound quality of those cassette adapters anyway. Isn't it true that cassettes can only playback at 22000 samples per second - wouldn't this drastically affect the playback quality? A cassette recorder is an analog device, not a digital device. Samples per second

RE: MD: in-car MD portable adaptor

2000-11-24 Thread Simon Mackay
===BEGIN QUOTE Theoretically, the sound quality of the cassette adapter can be as good as the original minidisc, but that depends on the quality of the components (mainly the magnetic head in the adapter and the magnetic head in the cassette deck). Of course

Re: MD: in-car MD portable adaptor

2000-11-23 Thread john . h . rolt
Memo from John H Rolt of PricewaterhouseCoopers Start of message text Hi all I share the interest some of you eg Jim have expressed in using a portable in-car (unfortunately I'm working with a cassette adaptor for now). I notice that Argos in the UK

Re: MD: in-car MD portable adaptor

2000-11-23 Thread Phat Ha
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Re: MD: in-car MD portable adaptor

2000-11-23 Thread Dave Hooper
How is the sound quality of those cassette adapters anyway. Isn't it true that cassettes can only playback at 22000 samples per second - wouldn't this drastically affect the playback quality? I've never heard that said (and it's not true, because cassettes are an inherently analogue medium