From rbc3 Sent Wed, Apr 22nd 1998, 06:59
From rbc3 Sent Wed, Apr 22nd 1998, 06:59
David Hodgson wrote: > on the subject of minidisic > what do other people think of the quality of Minidisc All compression is evil. Everyone should buy vinyl as their TOP priority! Goddard once said that film was truth 24 frames per second. Actually we all know that film could not possibly be TRUTH, and in fact Goddard was commenting on how easy it is to lie with film. Digital recording is the same! It can not possibly do music justice even if the sampling rate is above our "comprehensable" rate and the bit depth is "enough for us not to tell the difference"... It is still digitized and therefore not the pure sound. If you add digital compression into the picture this problem is ESCELATED! At the same time, I do admit that I own a CD player and own quite a few CD's. Their portability is invaluable for on-the-road listening (in the car, snowboarding, biking, running...). However, in these settings the all the background noise renders perfect reproduction unimportant. I know I am in the minority here, but I own a Technics 1200 with an Ortofon needle and a JBL power amp and JBL studio monitors. While, these are not the finest nor the top of the line pieces, I can DEFINATELY hear the suberp sound quality and dynamic range that I get out of vinyl over my CD player plugged into the same system. Albeit, I don't have a top quality CD player but for the $500 price tag of the turntable + the needle vs. the $500 price tag of my CD player I CAN tell which is better. Obviously this is my very biased analog junkie opinion. -rbcIII robot