RE: going from MD to CD

From: Elson Trinidad (elson@westworld.com)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 20:40:54 CEST

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    At 11:10 AM 8/3/01 -0500, Tim Spurway wrote:

    > I use my Akai MPC sampler, actually, to do the analog to
    >digital, but lots of soundcards and even some of the newer consumer grade
    >'receivers' have this digital capability.

    But the MPC has S/PDIF coaxial out, not optical, which is what a great
    majority of MD recorders (and virtually all portables) have. Unless you
    have some other coax-to-optical convertor somewhere.

    >I actually bought two MD players. I found an old skool MD from sony - the
    >MZ-2P that does have the digital output. It's really big and has no
    >recording capability, but it's a great player because of it's digital
    >capability. Strangely enough, Sony quit implementing digital outputs on
    >it's players after this box (in '91, think). One can find them pretty cheap
    >on ebay.

    The tradeoff is the ATRAC compression on the older decks isn't nearly as
    good as it is today.

       The fact is that most MD
    >players don't have very good converters.
    >
    >tim

    True, but the sound quality of MD ATRAC is much, much better than the MPEG
      compression of those MP3 players, which most consumers seem to be going
    ga-ga over these days.

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