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Giles wrote:

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> 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.

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> 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.

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How did you do your test ? What are the differences you perceived ?
I did tests on a DCC (which uses the highest quality MPEG I compression)
and I could never be sure that there was really a difference. If there
is a difference it is really minor. 

> 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.

Are there any hard numbers on tape-wear somewhere ?

 
greetings
Johan