ATRAC technology was developed
to save disc storage and reduce
bandwidth during data transmission,
while maintaining a high degree of
fidelity to the original source.
ATRAC does a fine job meeting
these criteria.
In some quarters, however, ATRAC will
always be the Rodney Dangerfield of
recording technologies:
"I tell ya, I don't get no respect."
This is because ATRAC will always be
criticized for creating, by design,
an approximation of the original source.
Saying the result is "indistinguishable
from the original" doesn't change the
fact that 80% of the original digital
material is discarded, and other data
added, when creating the ATRAC version.
Some recordists will always prefer to
work from the original digital material,
rather than an approximation. When disc
space is at a premium, these recordists
choose to use "lossless" compression.
The new DEVA recorders employ this approach,
for example.
ATRAC has proven to be an excellent and
widely respected tool for recording.
But it will always be criticized. Whether
this matters or not is really the choice
of the recordist.
--Oryoki
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