From Kent Williams Sent Fri, Jun 19th 1998, 04:19
From Kent Williams Sent Fri, Jun 19th 1998, 04:19
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, -wheeler- wrote: > Judging by some of the responses I have received about the second > query I made, I feel I may not be expressing myself very well. I do > actually own a minidisc recorder at the moment which I use to sample > from to make music on my PC. I was just wondering whether filtering > and other manipulations would bring out the difference in quality > between a sample from a minidisc and one from a CD (assuming that I > hadn't noticed one before filtering). > The succinct answer is: No, you won't notice the difference. I said words to that effect, but I must have been too discursive in my redaction. Some time you should take a CD, record it to MD, and then take an analogue sample of both. If you get the two samples chopped and normalized so that they start at the same time and have the same amplitude, you can invert the MD signal, and mix it with the CD signal. This removes the common component of the two signal, leaving only the difference between them. Then if you normalize that and listen to it, you'll hear what the compression took out.