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On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 06:41:00 GMT, Swanlee@ix.netcom.com (Swanlee)
wrote:
>
>Not likely japan is buying up MDs faster than they can stock them.
>Also the point of MD is it is a disc format someone looking into md
>for that would not want a dat. Just the supply in japan is enough for
>sony to keep making them for a while. And also just about every major
>electornic company now makes at least one type of md unit and djs use
>them now instead of those old carts they had.
>
They might be buying up MDs fast in Japan but sales are stagnant or
falling elsewhere .  I have seen posts from people in the US who want
to know where they can obtain blank disks because stores are not
stocking them anymore due to low sales of the players and disks.

> With the TCD D8 if you
>>use 90 metre computer grade tapes (not recommended by Sony) you can
>>record 3 hours of music. If you used the LP mode which drops the
>>response to 15khz but would probably still probably be on par with MD
>>quality, you can get 6 hours on such a tape.
>
>I would actully prefer dats for live recording show and stuff but
>their is causes where md is better for home listening. For the fact it
>acts like a cd on does not have the tape wear or head contact of dats.
>Als th life span is much longer and cna be played much longer without
>nioticable wear.
>
Why is MD better for home listening?  The format uses  compression
that discards a large part of the original information that one
supposedly can't hear.  Using Low-Fi headphones or speakers maybe but
using good headphones I certainly can hear the difference.  The sound
quality of MD is inferior to that of DAT.  DAT is used in the
recording industry quite a bit - you can cut a CD from a good DAT
recording - you would need your head examined if you did that with MD.

I will grant you that DAT is theoretically prone to tape/head wear but
it has not been noticeable to me as yet.  I think I would grow tired
of the music before a tape had audible wear.  I saw a post by someone
who played the same DAT tape every night to go to sleep to and had
played it several thousand times with no audible degradation in sound
quality.  If this is typical I don't think tape wear is a real issue.

If MD was really like a CD - with no lossy compression - then I would
agree with you but it isn't.  If they apply the new DVD technology to
MD and get rid of the compression then it might be a Hi-Fi medium but
as it is now I will stick with DAT because it sounds better.


Giles

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