Re: no AJ...minidisc...

k kiernan (mrfliz@interport.net)
Fri, 24 Apr 1998 12:10:53 -0400

i too am a md devotee. the editing features are incredible. you can make
edits to within a fraction of a second, you can resequence in seconds, you
can title everything. my baby portable sound player is the size of a deck
of cards, and shaking it as much as i can, i still can't get it to skip or
stop. it's so small i usually carry it in my shirt pocket.

one thing i disagree about, however, gen; sony wants us to think it's
lossless, but it ain't. md technology "decides" through its "psychoacoustic
algorithm" what signal to keep, and what to ignore. i've found that this
basically "cleans up" the bass end, but simplifies it as well. the general
sound, to me, approximates a "v" equalization, in that bass (around 100-200
hz) and treble (750hz-2000 hz) are bumped up a bit.

all this being said, the intergenerational loss is quite small, and even 5th
generation sounds at least cassette quality.....

i think that once they perfect hardware to enable you to download an mp3 and
print to minidiscs, md's will be ubiquitous......

i like minidisc.

kevin k

-----Original Message-----
From: Gen Kanai <gkanai@earthlink.net>
To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 11:20 AM
Subject: no AJ...minidisc...

>Hey folks,
>
>I realize that this is a music list but I just wanted to know if anyone
>else out there is using Minidisc as a format for recording or playback. I
>just bought the new Sharp MD-MS 702 and this thing is sooo cool! 74 mins
>of digital music, lossless compression so no degratdation of signal, cool
>features like being able to move tracks around or delete them, titling each
>track and disc with over 100 characters per song, and rerecordable over and
>over. Plus its smaller than my cellphone!
>
>Just had to mention it to see if anyone else is getting into MD.
>
>G
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