I must confess, I never try a blind test like you suggest and maybe, yes, it
could be for me no difference between a digitally recording and the master.
However, the factor that didn't help is that we play the music (the media)
from 2 different kind of unit. So, it's hard to tell when the sound seems
worst if it's the unit fault or the CD - minidisc fault.
To know it exactly we should have CD unit and MD unit perfectly the same in
all way... What I don't have. I have professional equipment for CD -
Cassette - and Professional Video Equipment. For Minidisc, I have only a
Sony Deck , a portable recordable player and a Sharp Home System. Nothing
really able to do real comparaison...
Also, sorry for all my english, I'm originally French so I try my best to
write what I think and what I've experienced in the best English I can
use...
Sorry also for the term big... I meant by this, that when I hear my CD in my
portable CD player or in my car, the sound is better than my digitally
recorded MD. In fact, it's not a good test in the car since I don't have the
same Blue Punk Car CD unit with my MD car system... Like before, it's hard
when you want to compare two different kind of things together... It's like
compare orange and apple !!!
So, I must agree that if we want to get real result, real proof, we need to
use proper equipment... So, in some conditions, with professional equipment
either a MP3 files could be better or worst and same thing for a CD or a
MD...
All this to conclude that anyone who believe in any kind of music format :
MP3 files, CD, MD or any other kind of music media use, could succeed to
reach a high quality if he bought the best level equipment for this media...
What I think is important is that you like what you use and you are
satisfied with it... If some people can afford to pay memory card for MP3
and you like it, perfect ! Personally I prefer MD because it's inexpensive,
you can edit, move, rename, erase, divide, combine mostly forever and this
is a great thing for me !!! Even if better stuff will be release, I will
wait a while before changing all my MD equipment. I know it's maybe not
perfect, but enough perfect for me right now... I've try MP3 player from Rio
and sorry, the sound was not really impressive. Maybe there is very good MP3
player but I've not tried some yet !
I hope this will answer your questions...
Best Regards, good week-end !
Pierre Forest
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Kheops Minidisc - http://www.kheopsminidisc.com
Your one stop shop for all your minidisc needs !
Well I'm glad that in your original statement when you said that TDKs were
even
better..... That you were not talking about the sound quality. That would
have
totally destroyed your credibility.
What you state about the shell (I was calling it a jacket, because I
couldn't
think of the name, mind just went blank) I agree with 100%.
But I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this statement:
"I have try a lot of minidisc : Hi-Space, Sony, TDK, Maxell, Denon, Xita and
I'm reputed for my perfection in sound... I always record digitally all my
minidisc and I didn't notice a difference between 2 different kind of MD.
There is however a big difference, for me, between the original CD and the
MD copy
So you are saying that when you make a copy of a CD digitally transferred to
an
MD, you hear a loss in sound quality or increase in distortion?? In plain
English, you think that the MD does not sound nearly as good as the CD. Is
that what you are saying?
If it is, there are so many factors that are involved in what you are
saying.
But lets keep it simple. A good quality portable MD recorder makes a
digital
copy of a CD that is very noticeably (you used the term "big") inferior in
sound
quality to your ears.
If that is what you are saying, I'd love to try a double blind experiment.
I'll' bet that you would be surprised by the results. For one thing, all of
our
senses, with the exception of pain, fatigue as time passes. So by the end of
the
test it would be much more difficult to determine no matter how good your
selections were in the beginning.
"There is however a big difference, for me, between the original CD and the
MD copy and also, [a huge difference between the CD, The digital copy of a
CD
on a MD and MP3 files.]
I'm not quite sure what you mean by the section that I have placed in
brackets.
Please clarify. I think it may just be a typo or it could be my incredible
stupidity-that certainly doesn't help me understand things any better.
MP3 files are good to hear in a room or in a radio
when working but I hate this when I exercice cause I hear the loss in sound
and all the imperfection."
There was an e mail from someone claiming that MP3 sounded better then MDs.
I
think he is grossly mistaken. Does what you say above support my opinion?
Regards,
Larry
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