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I think he's right, I read the article, and felt that this author is only
wanting Minidisc to go away, so he writes nothing bad about the other
format, making the readier "stand-offish" to the Minidisc, so they won't buy
it, so he gets what he wants. Is that right?
>
> >The "PC solution" offered by Sony, Sharp and others is a
> >strange stopgap. First off, they cost only slightly less than
> >current portable MP3 devices. Second, MP3 compression is
> >decidedly lower quality than MD's ATRAC compression, and
> >recording from a CD to an MP3 to an MD puts the music
> >through two stages of compression! The sound quality benefits
> >of MD are essentially wasted.
>
> And copying MP3s to a CD-R doesn't waste quality? And two stages of
> compression is essentially irrelevant when one is vastly more audible than
> the other (i.e. MP3).
>
> I had a laugh at this article. Unfortunately, I have a feeling it might be
> true for the US. The editing capabilities of MP3 indeed. And what about
the
> inconvenience of CD-R for portable recordings and editing? The public
needs
> to be better informed, I say.
>
> --
> Archer
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/6413/
>
> End.
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