>Les <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>"Dan Frakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>However, on
>>higher-end
>>systems (or even with very good headphones) the difference in
>>sound
>>quality between CD and MD is often immediately audible.
> I would venture
> to say
> that if you had a Sony ES CD deck and A Sony ES MD deck you should
> not be
> able to so readily hear a difference.
Well, there must be someone out there who could put this to the
(level-matched, double-blind) test?
The really tricky thing, of course, is comparing like with like. In
order to know what difference ATRACing *alone* has made to the sound,
we must play back the MD through the same DAC/reconstruction
filter/analogue output stage as the CD. Now, I don't doubt Dan's
experiences here, but I note he didn't say anything about a
standalone convertor through which CD and MD playback was routed. If
there are differences they could just as easily be explained away by
a preference for the analogue electronics in the CD player over the
MD player.
I don't have a separate DAC either, so, while I can easily hear the
quality differences between CD (Copland CDA266) and MD (Sony
MDS-JE520, Sharp 701, JVC XM-P55), I can't be sure that they're down
to the ATRAC algorithm alone. It's hardly night-and-day between the
Copland and Sony; fill up some of that empty space in the 520 with
the sort of high-end exotica found in the 266 and one would expect
the gap to be narrowed significantly.
So, anyone out there with a good DAC (good in this case = relatively
immune to cable loading, source jitter issues) want to do some
listening tests?
Mike.
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