Re: Best Recordable Port'MD Player? (Clarification)

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From: Mike Glantz
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:00

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lucifersam wrote:
> Oh wait you did misunderstand me by 5 or 6 generation I meant of the
> atrac chip not the MD recording itself. As in the current atrac chip
> is atrac 4, by 5 or 6 it will sound better than cds and dats
> considering the improvments made on each generation of the chip.

Ah, ok, now I see what you meant. Sorry.

OK, for the record, "ATRAC generation" is Sony's nomenclature
for different generations of its chip sets, which implement
the compression algorithm differently (and, presumably, still
less than fully). There isn't any "official" generation where
there are changes or improvements to the ATRAC algorithm itself.

That being said, it is still true that it will never be possible
for an ATRAC-compressed program to be more faithful than CD or
DAT to the original. It may sound identical. It may, to some
ears, sound better, if those ears can detect and happen to
prefer the difference, but the MD will be unfaithful to the
original, by definition.

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From: Mike Glantz <mike.glantz@grenoble.rxrc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: Best Recordable Port'MD Player? (Clarification)
Date: 1997/01/16
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