>ATRAC compression (the way MD works) cuts lower (supposedly sub sonic >and
>super sonic) frequencies. The thing is, myself and many friends >have must
>have superhuman hearing - either that or The Sony consortium >got the
>frequency range wrong - we can almost without fail tell a Mini >Disc from a
>CD. If this is a SERIOUS issue, don't bother but for what >most people use
>MD for (working copy dupes, portability etc) it will >be fine.
At the risk of coming across as an audiophile snob, I can't live without my
DAT. When I was in the market for a recording medium, I checked out MD, and
I didn't like the way it sounded. I actually think MP3s compressed @ 192
sound better than MD. IMHO, of course...
Peace,
Pedro Cevallos
--
"...beginning in the fourteenth century, the clock made us into
time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers. In the process,
we have learned irreverence toward the sun and the seasons, for in a world
made up of seconds and minutes, the authority of nature is superseded."
-- Neil Postman --
http://www.geocities.com/mr_cevallos/
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