RE: MD: MD inferior to MP3: it's not computer-literate

[Eric Woudenberg, Minidisc.org Editor]

macdef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> True, but that doesn't make it so. My headphone amp has two inputs. I have
> CD hooked into one, and MD into the other. I've done blind tests where I
> played a CD and an MD of that CD at the same time with identical output
> levels, and had someone else switch between the inputs. In a couple seconds
> I could pick out which was CD and which was MD. The MD simply didn't have as
> good sound as the original CD, no matter what album/music I compared. The
> only genre where the difference was slight was standard mass-market pop/rock
> stuff, and that's because of the bad recording/production that's normally
> used.

You really need to use the same DAC and line amplifier to compare
these two sources. Is it possible to try this experiment again with
the CD signal being routed through the MD recorder while the MD unit
is in REC-PAUSE (i.e. "monitor") mode? Ideally you'd take a digital
signal from the CD. This way you can really compare the difference in
the two sources.

Rick

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