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- From: sss@castle.ed.ac.uk (S S Sturrock)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Sony Mini-Disc Questions/Debate
- Message-ID: <25081@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 13:15:19 GMT
- References: <FOX.92Aug12091401@graphics.nyu.edu> <24809@castle.ed.ac.uk> <MARC.92Aug21091602@mamba.es.ele.tue.nl>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <MARC.92Aug21091602@mamba.es.ele.tue.nl> marc@es.ele.tue.nl (Marc Heijligers) writes:
- >
- >In article <24809@castle.ed.ac.uk> sss@castle.ed.ac.uk (S S Sturrock) writes:
- > then I think he has too much faith in the perfection of digital and no idea
- > about precisely what PASC is doing to achieve the compression.
- >
- >I don't think you can argue just because you 'think' he has to much faith in
- >his product. He has based his opinions on wide-scale tests.
-
- Can't get any wider than having the thing on general release which it
- hasn't been yet. How many other companies have claimed that problems
- didn't exist only to find that they did? Meybe I am just being
- pessimistic, maybe I am being realistic.
- >
- >I don't know who did the review, but when I heard DCC myself yesterday, I can
- >only state that the recorded sound sounded exactly the same as the original
- >sound did. I think the reviewer is of a type equal to the one who claims that
- >CD doesn't sounds right, because the sound is cut into pieces.
-
- Read what I said again, the *ANALOGUE* sound is about on average for a 100
- quid deck, nothing about the digital sound, this comment was aimed at those
- who want to buy one and play their old MCs on it as well as DCCs.
-
- The reviewer is not of the type you say, the particular mag is very pro
- digital. What Hifi as a matter of fact which is about as pro digital as
- they come.
- >
- >It is not ordinary chrome tape. The information on the tape is 'digital' (in
-
- It is an ordinary chrome tape, the information is digital yes but the tape
- is the same as a good old analogue chrome cassette but in a different case.
-
- >fact it is analogue ofcourse), which means that a degradation of the tape can
- >hardly be noticed (a degraded '1' has to degrade very hard to become a '0').
- >CD's also degrade. The best would be 'solid-state audio', but this is future
- >work.
-
- Yes yes, very old hat, go teach your grandmother to suck a few eggs will
- you please?
- >
- >To give you a more complete view on DCC, here's a letter of my friend (working
- >at Philips) which he wrote because of a discussion on nlnet (= local net for
- >the Netherlands, on which the DCC is a hot item too).
-
- Yes, again, very old news, nothing much there which hasn't already been
- bandied around the net.
-
-
- --
- Shane Sturrock, Biocomputing Research Unit, Darwin Building, Mayfield Road,
- University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Commonwealth of Independant Kingdoms. :-)
-
- Civilisation is a Haggis Supper with salt and sauce and a bottle of Irn Bru.
-