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"Dave Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>when I began to notice that the MDs I'd recorded on my Sharp didn't actually
>sound very good at all.
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>You know about MP3 encoding, right? It sounded like a 96kbps MP3
>file, or perhaps a badly encoded 128kbps MP3 file (like you get with
>the "8HZ" encoder). I was kinda expecting MD to sound 'as good as'
>(note the apostrophes) CD, and I had already experienced MP3 and
>surmised that low bitrate MP3 files don't actually hold their own
>against CDs very well. When I discovered that the MDs recorded on the
>Sharp didn't sound much better than (substandard quality) MP3 files I
>began to investigate further. Like I already said.
You have other problems then. There is simply no way that digital MDs off
a Sharp unit will sound as bad as "substandard quality MP3" files. If
they do, you have a problem somewhere in the recording process.
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