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- From: sss@castle.ed.ac.uk (S S Sturrock)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: MiniDiscs -- What Are They?
- Message-ID: <30691@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 14:12:51 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.140434.1218@cmkrnl.com> <30416@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan21.153120.27597@nynexst.com>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <1993Jan21.153120.27597@nynexst.com> rsilvers@nynexst.com (Robert Silvers) writes:
- >In article <30416@castle.ed.ac.uk> sss@castle.ed.ac.uk (S S Sturrock) writes:
- >
- >>Both DCC and MD are too new to start slinging stones around, CD sounded
- >>utterly dreadful when it first appeared, now it can sound passable with
- >>care, give the new technology time, let those who dived into CD first do
- >>the same with DCC/MD and eventually your perception of good sound may be
- >>lowered enough such that you can put up with the sound, Christ, if people
- >>can put up with CD they can put up with anything.
- >
- > I wish you would save the money you spend on audio and buy a clue.
- >Any audio limitations with CDs are not due to the 16 bit, 44.1 digital
-
- Didn't say they were. They are more the fault of wrecking the signal
- before sampling. No need for your tone of voice by the way. How can you
- expect a fruitful discussion if you are going to behave like this. I know,
- I used to be the same (as many of you may remember!) :-)
-
- Doesn't get you anywhere so cut it out.
-
- >sampling as much as the microphone - amp - amp - speaker chain. Buy a good
- >CD player. I feel bad that you spent $10,000 on that turntable 10 years ago
- >and need to rationalize the cost. Try spending $10,000 on a CD player. I bet
- >it will sound better.
-
- Odd assumption. I was a confirmed CD fan but bought a cheap (ie 300 Pounds
- UK) turntable so I would be able to play my LP collection which had been
- gathering dust for some years. My CD player was very good thankyou very
- much, the Cambridge CD2 was acclaimed rightly so for it's sound. Cost me
- twice what I paid for the turntable but that sounded so good I drifted away
- from CD and put more money into my vinyl and turntable.
- >
- >(The funny thing is, I bet many of your favorite albums were recorded on a digital
- >master tape before the vinyl coloration was added).
-
- Actually, no they weren't. The ones I have that were digitally mastered
- sound just like the CDs and I don't bother to listen to them.
-
- --
- Shane Sturrock, Biocomputing Research Unit, Darwin Building, Mayfield Road,
- University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Commonwealth of Independent Kingdoms. :-)
-
- Civilisation is a Haggis Supper with salt and sauce and a bottle of Irn Bru.
-