On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Shane Beers wrote:
quoted 6 lines Nothing can beat the portablility and all-around worry-free usage of a
> Nothing can beat the portablility and all-around worry-free usage of a
> tape.
> Until you put it in and it eats it up.... :)
>
> P.S.-Except maybe a MD now. But who has the money for a silly car MD
> changer?
MiniDiscs beat cassette tapes at everything. Aside from portability (lets
see you put 5 cassettes in your shirt pocket, let alone 5 CDs), they sound
as good as CDs, won't get eaten by a rogue player, won't degrade on each
listening, and editing is a snap (you can split recordings into tracks,
delete tracks, change the ordering, merge two tracks, etc). And there's
no rewinding needed. A portable recorder is smaller than most play-only
cassette walkmans and will accept input from analogue and digital sources.
MiniDiscs even beat CDs at everything except availability of pre-recorded
music (but even CD isn't as good as vinyl for that either).
I record all my vinyl onto MD for convenience, and I can't tell any
difference between the original and the recording at all.
Rather than bothering with car player, I just plug my portable into the
car stereo.
I wasn't planning to enter the debate, but once somebody mentioned my
beloved MiniDisc I just had to jump in :-)
on now - miles davis - live evil - sivad selim (bought it yesterday and it
was well worth it).
--
Emanuel Borsboom -- Victoria B.C. Canada -- "complete with surface noise"
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