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> Listen, do you all remember seeing the first CDs? Here was this really
> cool looking reflective disc that uses lasers to be read. You can hear your
> favourite song on an album just by pushing a button. It sounded better than
> the cassette and it was MUCH smaller than LP. Only rich people owned them,
> so it was every teenagers goal to save for eternity to be the first of his
> friends to own one, just like the first teens to own cell phones.
> For the average person, MD doesn't represent any quantum leap forward.
> Try explaining the benefits of MD to most teenagers (I've tried). It goes
> like this:
> "So what is this again?"
> "Well it's basically a small CD."
> "Oh, that looks pretty cool. Where do you buy music for this thing?"
> "You don't usually, usually you record your own."
> "Oh well is it better than CD sound?"
> "Well actually it's almost the same as CD, just a little below."
> "Well why wouldn't you just buy CDs?"
> "It's a lot smaller than CD and gives you the ability to make your own mixes
> from anywhere."
> "But what would you record from?"
> "MP3 or CDs are a good source, but anything that produces sound really...
> video games, concerts, whatever you like."
> "How much do these recorders cost?"
> (keep in mind I live in Canada)
> "Well they start at about $300."
> "Hmm and you need one of those players to play the discs. I think it would
> just be easier to use a CD burner, I can get one for only like $150 these
> days."
Hmm, one thing is missing here:
a $150 burner is PC bassed.... And burning a CD is a lot more hassle than
recording
a CD to MD.
> and so on and so on....
>
> So what does this mean?? It means that MD is goddamn cool, but unfortunately
> unpractical; unless of course you are a journalist or musician or something
> of the like. Or, like myself, a techno-geek who thrives on expensive
> 'exclusive' technology!
Unfortunatly the journalists write a lot of bullshit.... And the musician. Well
they use either MD or DAT.
It sounds to me that there are many 'computer-geeks' on this list. You all seem
to have a PC bassed burner (I've got one, but I don't use it to burn Audio-CDs,
MD
is a lot easier!) and most of you are into MP3.
MP3 has taken off in the PC world. But it's NOT and I repeat again, it's NOT a
mass-market product. However, some concepts (like the MemoryStick from Sony) are
appearing that de-couple the PC from MP3 (or other flash-memory-based music
media).
The main problem with MD is it's history. ATRAC 1 sounded good from a technology
point of view. It sounded horible from an audiophile point of view... MD still I
still here people saying that MD sounds bad. However when they here my 7900,
702 or S38, they first think it's a CD...
We've seen standalone audio CD-R(W) burners being introduced and since it was
another Philips invention it totaly went into the wrong direction. (Philips
should have come out with them 5 years earlier!).
MD however is still in plain development. New units are being introduced each
month so....
Cheers,
Ralph
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