This going around about which sounds better is growing old and really misses the whole point. I think that they best way to compare different recording formats it to compare them to cars. There are economy cars (cassettes). Then there are inexpensive sports cars. Expensive sports cars. Middle of the road cars, of various sizes and grades. Next there are vans, trucks, and SUVs. Finally there are true Luxury cars. Even these fall into different classes. There are the Caddies and Lincolns and the Mercedes and Lexus. Finally the Rolls. A cheap "sports car" will not handle well and gives a crappy ride. A high end sports car handles the road well, but would you want to take it cross country if you had a chance to drive a car that feels like you are floating on air? For long trips, the sports car, while being fun to drive, is not fun to sit in for 12 hours a day. Neither will do well in the snow. And I don't think that you would want to take a sports car off road. The same types of things apply to recording media. When you factor in the cost of fuel as an analogy to the cost of media, that plays a part also. I'm not going to make any comparisons. I'll leave that to you. I only mentioned the cassette, to get you thinking on the same page as me. The CD, MD, MP3 (solid state) all have their place. For me the cassette is something whose time has passed (but that may not be the case for everyone). On an up note for the MD, I was on a discount E lectronics site the other day and they had a top ten list of their most popular items. I'm not sure if they were in order of popularity. But item number one was the Sony MZ-R90!! Surprise. And this was not a site devoted to MD. Larry ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
