"Using version 4 (either Sony or Sharp's) as a reference point, I think that
the
sound of an MD will be better than a Cassette and even better than vinyl
that
has been played several times. I've owned some pretty high end turntables
and
cartridges in my days, but even right out of the sleeve for the first time,
there were clicks and pops on the record."
" Also anyone claiming that records sound "better" than a CD (or even an MD)
had
better define what they mean by the word better. They may sound better to
that
individual but there is on way that they can sound better using
conventional
terms."
Hi Guys
Just had to add a few cents worth here. I considered myself almost an
"audiophile" long ago during vinyl's heyday. You had to find the right
store to get a "mastered" disc if you wanted quality with no pops and such
and they cost about 3 or 4 times as much as your "Colombia house" deals,
LOL. You could even get them colored (sound familiar?) but not all colored
lps were true masters, you again had to check the cover (the cover always
said hifi master or something similar) and the price was always a dead
giveaway. The commercial 3- 5.00 lp was the common standard and most of
them were bad, You needed to shell out 15- 20.00 for a high end record!
There were truly high quality vinyl albums available if one was willing to
pay the price, just not everywhere and not every album that came along
either.
In any case I could always make a better cassette than you could buy by
recording my vinyl to a high end blank with a high end deck. Of course none
of this "really" compares to CD or MD except that in the early days of CD
the quality vinyl DID SOUND better! The early CDs were not properly
recorded or mastered and many of them lacked the bass and clarity of the
original quality vinyl. They sounded very "tinny" and just did not sound
like the original master at all! Hope this is enough "definition" for you.
None of this is TRUE ANYMORE BUT it was for a short while (maybe the first 2
years or so of CD). Perhaps this is why you see so many CDs on the market
that are "re mastered" as they sucked the first time around, LOL..
Some of my BEST sounding MDs are of my old vinyl collection (may they rest
in Peace). I bought an MD deck long before a CDR deck so now I have copied
all those MDs to CDR and the CDRs sound as good as most of the "re mastered"
CDs of the same title. So, vinyl to MD to CDR and sound this good? Who
cares about compression when you can't hear it, WE DON"T WORRY BOUT NO
STINKIN COMPRESSION!!! LOL!! Thats my buck and a quarter.....
Les
www.musicmixers.com/mall
Music Mixers DJ Lighting and Audio Mall
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