RE: MD: More on SJ-MR200 / Sony decks

2000-07-18 Thread Richard Lang
uality might be approaching that of MP3s? (speaking as someone who knows next to nothing about MP3!!) richard -Original Message- From: Leon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 19 July 2000 3:52 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MD: More on SJ-MR200 / Sony decks Hi Richard,

Re: MD: More on SJ-MR200 / Sony decks

2000-07-18 Thread Leon
Hi Richard, ATRAC3 indeed provides a greater compression ratio, about double that of the original ATRAC. Sony claims better integration with equipments that also use ATRAC. Sound quality is supposed to be "MD-like". I'm assuming this means slightly inferior to MD depending on the source. The

RE: MD: More on SJ-MR200 / Sony decks

2000-07-18 Thread Richard Lang
Whoa! Have I missed something? What is ATRAC 3? Presumably a greater compression ratio... I love the idea of being able to record 320 minutes of stereo music onto an 80 minute disc (i.e. 4x what you usually can record) but does anyone know how it works and what the catch is? Can something r