Subject:
|
Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.geek
|
Date:
|
Thu, 3 Feb 2000 21:08:43 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
160 times
|
| |
|
|
Kevin,
Kevin Maynes wrote:
> Keep in mind thought that MD's use ATRAC compression, which is a bit lossy.
Hmm... I am not an audio junkie, so if you say so, alright!
> Most people won't notice any serious difference with most music, but some
> diehard audiophiles (the kind who'll spend $2K on an amplifier kit using vacuum
> tubes) have a problem with that.
Yikes!
> Don't get me wrong, I have an MD as well (Sharp rules! :) and it's great I tell
> you, darn great!
My roommate has a Sharp, I have bought two Sony (MZ-R55 and the player
only, my fiancée has it now) and I have the MD player in my Suburban and
her Shadow. I figured, well, since I have it, why can't see have it as
well? I just bought an AIWA player to try it out, I like the controls on
it better.
> I just wouldn't use it for high-end studio recording of
> one-time performances. That small loss is the _only_ downside. And a small one
> at that. Well, that and the fact that it's so hard to come by in North America.
Yes, I bought mine at Best Buy and on-line. There are a bunch of sites
for MD's, at least.
> The MD will probably only come into its own on this continent once somebody
> comes up with a PC-based MD-drive that can do audio as well, much like CD-R
> systems. That's what I'm waitin' for. A blank MD can store up to 160MB of audio
> information, or 140MB of digital data. And they're a fair bit cheaper than zip.
YES! I have been waiting for that as well. I would love to have a drive
for it.
Scott S.
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net
Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> http://www.aeieng.com
LEGO Page -> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/3372/legoindex.html
Home Page -> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/3372/index.html
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
|
| (...) Keep in mind thought that MD's use ATRAC compression, which is a bit lossy. Most people won't notice any serious difference with most music, but some diehard audiophiles (the kind who'll spend $2K on an amplifier kit using vacuum tubes) have a (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
17 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
