On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 05:38 PM, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote:
Minidisc recorders on sale now can now record at 44.1 KHz, which is nice.
I'm assuming that this means no compression is used.
That would be an incorrect assumption. The sampling rate is just the sampling rate, it has nothing to do with the compression algorithm. For example, all MP3's have a sampling rate of 44.1 KHz, but, as you know, all MP3's are compressed. Additionally, it is the *bitrate* (128 kbps, 160 kbps, 192 kbps, 256 kbps), not the sampling rate (which is always 44.1 KHz) which determines the sound quality for MP3's. It's basically the same with MiniDisc -- MiniDisc *is* an audio compression technology, like MP3. To the best of my knowledge, no MiniDisc recorder is capable of recording uncompressed digital audio, and none is capable of outputting digital audio of any kind (unless they've come out with some kind of "pro" model... ).
- Darcy
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