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Anthony Curran wrote:
> 
> Giles wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > You might also want to consider looking at a portable DAT player like
> > the Sony TCD D8.  Not quite as small as the minidisk but better sound
> > quality.  With the low world wide sales of minidisk there is a danger
> > that the format will be dropped at some time.
> 
> if this was true then why is sony sponsoring 3 day music festivals in
> the states
> secondly why has there been a 10 fold increase in the sale of MD's in
> japan
> over the last year. MD's are being taken up everywhere and by every
> manufacturer
> 
>  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.
> >
> > Giles
> 
> get real MD is sampled at 44.1 khz and not 15 Khz as you believe. the
> current generation MD's are using 20 bits and if you read the article
> in electronics australia (Oct 96?) regarding the review of the JA3es
> then the guy doing the review put MD ahead of DAT after reviewing the
>  MD recorder in question
> 
> Then you have the wear and tear on DAT tapes and you do not have instant
> random
> access on DAT's.
> 
> >
> > On Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:19:22 +0000, Hosuni <hsh2@coventry.ac.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
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If minidisk really matched the music reproduction quality of DAT, why
then does sony use DAT to backup heaps of analog recordings from
Columbia Records but not minidisks, clearly there is a difference in
sound quality between the two formats, I have heard both DAT and
Minidisk, I must say in term of sound quality DAT is way ahead of
minidisc, in term of of frequency response of a DAT is 2-20khz using
44.1KHz sampling rates, and 2-22KHz using 48KHz sampling rates. Sony the
inventor of MD has also put a lot more of the latest technology into DAT
rather than MD, because as a linear format(Format without data
compression) is easier to implement some of the latest digital recording
technology available. The current recording technology with DAT is so
advance that it will take some years for S0NY to implement them on an
equvilent MD machine, 20 bit recording were available on DAT around 3-4
years ago and now we have Pioneer DAT that can record with 96Khz
oversampling rate and 44khz frequency response. The other advantage with
DAT is that in long player mode it can record stereo program for 6
hours, which no other MD machine at this stage is capable of ( MD from
my knowledge can only record in mono in long play mode). So what
advantage does MD has over DAT, as far as I can see there are probably
just a few points

1. convinience, feature
2. easy editing
3. disc format.

So I really believe if you do want the best sound for dubbing you CD and
life recording, DAT is the one to go for, while MD may give you the
convinience of direct track access, quick editing but it can not match
DAT for sound quality which is the most important criteria when judge a
piece of audio equipment

JL