On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Rusty Householter wrote:
quoted 6 lines Also compare your
> Also compare your
> Mini-discs after recording something...I looked at a tape I made on a Dolby
> 3 head tape deck and a minidisc and low an behold the tape won out.
> Mini-discs have been known to flatten out there wave forms at certain
> frequecies like all recorded media, it's just that there is a little lower
> than tapes.
Which ATRAC revision did the recorder use? Different revisions vary
wildly in quality. ATRAC 1 (which the original equipment used) is really
very bad. ATRAC 2 is better, but not great. ATRAC 3 is very good. Most
audiophiles agree that ATRAC 4 sounds as good as DAT (blind tests, same
DAC, etc). ATRAC 4.5 is somehow better than ATRAC 4, but not audibly. So
unless your tests were done with the latest equipment, they're not valid.
I suppose MiniDiscs would flatten the waveforms a little because of their
compression which removes the frequencies we can't hear. While the
waveforms may be a bit different, what you hear is the same (our ears and
brains are far from perfect).
I agree that a good tape deck does sound very good. But it's the
degredation on playback that bothers me. And MiniDiscs still win out for
portability and convenience.
Oh, and I agree that esthetically, vinyl is much cooler. I too like
watching it spin, the way you can understand and see exactly what's going
on. I just love the image of a sharp needle scratching away at soft
plastic, and the image of big blobs of dead skin, bacteria, and oils
landing on it and getting in the way.
It the end, though, it's the quality of the music and not the quality of
the recording that counts. A little surface noise and some clicks and
pops aren't going to stop me from enjoying it.
--
Emanuel Borsboom -- Victoria B.C. Canada -- "complete with surface noise"
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