Raimund started this discussion by writing
>I agree, that the your samples are nearly identical. However, when I
>listen to MDtest2.wav via headphones, I can clearly hear an artifact
>(a harsh transient) at t =3D 6.3 sec, which is not audible at the
>corresponding DAT recording at t=3D 16.4 sec. The spectrograms of both
>sections reveal the (to my mind) relatively strong distortion:
I have just listened with headphones to the original recordings that went=
into MDtest2, as played back by the recorders. The harsh transient referred=
to by Raimund is audible in the Portadisc recording but not in the DAT
recording. If the artifact was not produced by ATRAC, where did it come fro=
m?
Let me say, however, that the difference between the two recordings as a
whole is very small, certainly not enough to invalidate MD for my purposes.
Finally, I think the personal attacks that have been made during the
discussion are uncalled for and are unworthy of this list.
Jeremy
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