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- From: rsilvers@nynexst.com (Robert Silvers)
- Subject: Re: MiniDiscs -- What Are They?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.151146.27098@nynexst.com>
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- Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
- References: <shetline-150193173933@128.89.19.95> <30340@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan18.140434.1218@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 15:11:46 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan18.140434.1218@cmkrnl.com> jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
- >In article <30340@castle.ed.ac.uk>, sss@castle.ed.ac.uk (S S Sturrock) writes:
- >>
- >> This is not a valid test unless the recordings are both played through the
- >> same DAC, CD players sound different from each other, some better, some
- >> worse, why should DCC be any different?
- >
- >This is silly. You might as well say that "The Frobisher-Larosch x.y speaker
- >sounds fine, if only you replace the tweeter and woofer"!
- >
- >If I am evaluating a DCC deck I'm evaluating the whole deck, DACs and
- >subsequent analog stages included.
-
- I don't totally agree with you. Technically, what you are saying is true,
- but for now, people are deciding which system to go with. Should they start buying
- tons of DCC media or MD? Well, in order to decide the ULTIMATE sound potential of
- each relative to the other, you should listen to their compression algorithms through
- the SAME DAC.
-
- --Rob.
-
-