Actually, I have a mid-range Sony dolby S three-head cassette deck
(paid about $300 maybe 6 years ago), and I will say straight up I
believe the sound is as good or better than minidisc Atrac 4.0, if I
do EVERYTHING right when making the tape, and I mean EVERYTHING, which
is STRESSFUL as hell, and NO FUN, and a consummate WASTE OF TIME, and
then there's no titling, no random access, no convenient editing
functions, and either a minidisc or Dolby S tape is good enough to
sound monstrously good on a damn nice stereo. The tape will diminish
in sound quality over the years, my tape deck heads will wear out, you
have to clean the damn heads all the time, it will NEVER ever be up to
minidisc quality on a different cassette deck than the one I recorded
the tape on..... And I could GO ON AND ON....
A HUGE price to pay for a fraction of an ounce of sound quality. I
think you can get a cassette deck for $300 that sounds just a tiny
little smidge better than ATRAC 4.0 on certain types of music if you
work like hell at it, but make no mistake, IT'S LIVING HELL. And
perhaps ATRAC R has erased the nearly microscopic gap?
Do you think I've recorded a cassette tape since I bought my JE-510?
Don't bet on it, baby!!! With minidisc I just plain enjoy the music
more. That's what matters most to me. If someone is that freaked out
about sound quality, they should buy the best headphones and
loudspeakers they can afford first, or maybe it would be cheaper to
just see a psychiatrist....
I think Sound&Vision is about the most honest magazine of its type.
Unfortunately, Ken Pohlman has had a bug up his butt about minidisc
for a long time. He seems like a very diligent, honest and
straightforward guy, but I think he's made a bad, and somewhat
arrogant, call on this one.
EEK!!! I've written too much!!!
Regards to the list! Steve
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 21:42:48 -0700, in you wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>Hello all. September issue of Sound&Vision (which is Stereo Review gone to
>>hell) has some interesting items. First, a letter from a reader refers to
>>Ken Pohlmann's review of the Philips CDR560 CD recorder (June issue). Ken
>>stated that CD's provide much better sound than MD.
>
>>He then went on to refer to a test in the March 1997 issue and
>>said cassettes with Dolby S "sounded much better" than MD.
>
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