Re: Re: MD v. DAT

[Vicki Powys <>]

Rich,

I downloaded this sound but all I got was a loud electronic noise via a
web-only player i.e. I couldn't save the file even if I'd wanted to.  What'=
s
going on here?  I'd be interested to hear the recording if you can make it
all work!

Vicki Powys
Australia




on 14/8/03 8:56 AM, Rich Peet at  wrote:

> From the low end point of view.
>
> Having heard a sound example where a very slight difference could be
> heard in my good headphones I tried to repeat the failure.  The
> weakness in atrac is suppose to be best heard in fast attack sounds
> that are broad in freq.
>
> I recorded a sound bite from my local critters that best meets this,
> the Northern Cricket Frog.  It was recorded with a laptop computer
> and a good low noise mic. The signal was then sent digital out to my
> consumer walkman md and recorded back to the computer by analog. Only
> the gain on the md segment was changed 3 db to match.

>
> a 1.5 meg download at
> http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/mdtest.wav
>
> Rich Peet
>



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