Jon Drukman wrote:
quoted 8 lines if you are planning on getting into the recording biz, DAT is industry> if you are planning on getting into the recording biz, DAT is industry
> standard. everybody uses them for master distribution. most places won't
> even touch DCC or minidisc. don't save a few hundred bucks (or pounds) now
> cos you'll regret it later.
>
> also, blank DATs are way cheaper (and more readily available) than blank DCCs.
>
> avoid DCC and minidisc.
For use in the recording biz, absolutely.
However, as a portable recordable digital media, I love the MiniDisc. Tiny,
instant random-access, re-recordable and re-orderable, practically unskippable,
laser-read, sounds damn good. Jon is right that it hasn't taken off, but the
convenience and sound quality convinced me to be an early adopter a couple years
ago, and I haven't used a tape since. I always hated cassettes, especially when
my old ones started deteriorating and became barely listenable and wobbly. But
record your LPs and old tapes onto MD, and you have a permanent archive of the
sound that you can play repeatedly without fear of deterioration *and* you can
take it with you. And it sounds better on quiet passages than you might think,
even with the lossy compression.
But it's definitely not suitable for recording-industry-quality recording, and
it's still struggling in the market, and you can say the same for DCC. You
*must* go with DAT in that arena.
ObIDM: I'm still trying to figure out what everyone likes about Kid Spatula.
Sure, it's very good, but not outstanding or anything. I'm listening
to it intensively, but it's still not killing me. Maybe it's too
laid-back for what I'm expecting...
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