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- From: starfish@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Smarter than the Average Blur)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: how MiniDisc sounds
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 20:52:15 GMT
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- In article <2787@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> nm1@ukc.ac.uk (N.McBride) writes:
- >I honestly thought it sounded terrible. Really bad. The
- >treble was just falling apart, timing and `drive'
- >were very poor, and the bass weak. All in all extremely nasty.
- >To me it sounded like the original CD players - but worse.
- >It really did not give as good a sound as a half decent
- >Walkman. I'll be intersted to hear one as part of a hifi.
-
- Funny. I listened to one about 2 weeks ago and got the exact impressions
- you did. I was not impressed. Only difference with your test listen and
- mine is that I unplugged their demo headpones and used my own SONY MDR-V6's
- which pretty darn good headphones.
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-
- >Would you buy one?
-
- Never. And for more reasons than just the bad sound.
-
- -Alan Waterman
-