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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