From: Gideon Makin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 7:22 PM
Subject: MD: Recording Classic Music on MD
> Having searched the list's archives and various reports I could
> find on the web, I found that much attention is devoted to features (like
> titling, editing, bass quality) which I have little interest in.
I thought the same thing..... but...
When you put an MD in the portable, and you wonder which track you are
litening to, and you find you can just glance at the remote to see:-
"Antonin Dvorak - Concerto for Violincello and Orchestra in B minor - Opus
104" scrolling in the display, then "Movement 2 - Adagio ma non troppo" with
just one button press, you will realise why we love it so much.
When you record a concerto from the radio and realise the quality is
fantastic, and want to edit out the speaking between movements or chop the
discussion off the beginning of the disc and combine all the narrative at
the end as one track, you will realise why we love editing so much.
When Pierre Fournier strikes his cello to give that hard, deep, powerful
note at the start of Elgar's Cello concert, and the bass is so crisp and
well defined you think he's sitting next to you, you'll realise why we love
the bass response so much.
Trust me on this one, your interest will grow when you realise how useful it
can be. You start off thinking you'll never use it, then you wonder how you
ever managed without it.
> Also, it
> seems likely that these machines were designed with primarily popular
> music heard through earphones in mind, which might have affected the
> compression algorithm.
Possibly, but if it did then it does a very good job of coping with other
musical genre. I use my unit (actually units - I have quite a few) to listen
to all manner of music through a nice Hi-Fi system. I have a Rotel 50watt
system in the bedroom which is running Tannoy M1 speakers, and that sounds
great. Dad has a Lynn system in the front room that's about 250watts and
fantastically crisp and clear, and MD sounds amazing through that. Sometimes
you can hear the compression in really busy sections of the music if you
listen for it carefully, but with the newer version of ATRAC (4.5 or the new
type R) you'll be struggling to tell the difference. Ironically enough, pop
music puts a higher demand on the system due to extreme frequencies involved
(sub-bass sounds and high-frequency oscillators play a big part in dance
music) so if anything it should cope better with classical than pop!
> I wonder whether anyone out there has any experience with using a MD
> in the way I intend to, and whether they could enlighten me about this
> medium's suitability for my needs in terms of here sound quality -
> hopefully relieving my worries.
Take a trip to a good Hi-Fi store with a listening room, and get them to
record a CD you are familiar with to MD. They'll do this for you just to
demonstrate how easy recording is! Do an A-B comparison with CD and MD. Get
a feel for how it sounds. I think from the sounds of it you will be very
surprised.
Magic
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"Creativity is more a birthright than an acquisition, and the power of sound
is wisdom and understanding applied to the power of vibration."
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