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I faintly remember that Sony protested over the ASRAC name, so Pioneer now
calls it ARTIST-SYSTEM (Advanced Real-Time Signal Tuning) in Japan. This is
totally unconfirmed, though.
The Japanese message board users all like this system, but hey, they also
believe in blank MDs making a difference in sound.
I've been using only the XA-PRO for a while, but I won't comment... I don't
want to be beheaded :)
Leon
>> I am shopping around for an MD deck for my home system and have stumbled
>> upon the Pioneer units. What makes these interesting is a feature called
>> Advanced Parameter Processing (APP). Here is a link to information on it
>> incase anyone is interested.
>>
>> http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/features/9907-AdvancedParameterProcessing1.
>> asp
>
> I think this is what Pioneer used to call "ASRAC" which, they said,
> was "Fully Compatible with ATRAC!", so um, why change the name then?
> My guess is that calling it ASRAC was so confusing they dropped the
> special name and now call it Advanced Parameter Processing.
>
>> My question is, has anyone used a Pioneer unit with this feature, and if so,
>> did you notice any quality differences compared to MD units from other
>> manufactures?
>
> This is the $64K question. From the description, it looks like a good
> idea. There's only one glaring ommission: some kind of test results
> indicating that listeners actually thought it sounded better. Without
> that, it's impossible to know if they made any meaningful
> improvements. It would seem to indicate however that they've managed
> to do (or have requested) some independent development of ATRAC.
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