I've just recently become an MD convert (no pun intended). The problem with
the MD sound can be addressed, as others have suggested, by recording onto
them using the optical/digital TOSLink input to the disc recorder. The
analog/digital converters in most mini-disc recorders aren't all that great,
so if you can use a better converter, and feed the digital signal into the
MD, you're golden. I use my Akai MPC sampler, actually, to do the analog to
digital, but lots of soundcards and even some of the newer consumer grade
'receivers' have this digital capability.
I actually bought two MD players. I found an old skool MD from sony - the
MZ-2P that does have the digital output. It's really big and has no
recording capability, but it's a great player because of it's digital
capability. Strangely enough, Sony quit implementing digital outputs on
it's players after this box (in '91, think). One can find them pretty cheap
on ebay.
The other MD I have is the ultra portable MZ-R70 - I use this for recording,
and for listening to stuff on the road.
I am convinced that the sound quality difference that most people hear
between CD and MD is not the actual storage and compression algorithms, but
the crucial analog/digital conversion stage. The fact is that most MD
players don't have very good converters.
tim
>
> At 09:48 AM 8/3/01 +0100, tom.b@lineone.net wrote:
> >It's easy to do - I'm guessing you are on a home hi fi?
> >
> >You need a CD - R with a digital out (either coax or optical) and an MD
> >deck with the same connector as an input. You can use normal
> phono cables
> >at line level though the recording will not be digital.
>
> If your computer's sound card supports optical digital out, connect the
> soundcard into the MD, simply pop the CD-R in your computer, turn on your
> computer's CD player and set the MD to record...
>
> Too bad you can't do it the other way around; 90% of Mini Discs
> do not have
> digital out.
>
>
> > The thing is, myself and many friends have must have
> superhuman hearing
> > - either that or The Sony consortium got the frequency range wrong - we
> > can almost without fail tell a Mini Disc from a CD.
>
>
> Yeah, I prefer the warmer, fuller sound of CDs than those MDs... :)
>
>
>
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