James Jarvie wrote:
>
[snip]
> I have not encountered a rock or jazz recording in
> which I noticed a difference. Someone once noted that
> ATRAC has a difficult time reproducing cymbals. I
> listened over and over again to an Art Blakey CD, but
> couldn't decide if I heard a difference or not.
> Probably should have used a more recently recorded
> disc..but I figured that it was a tie and I didn't
> need to waste anymore time on it.
>
> Now I doubt I would have noticed this without doing
> extensive A-B comparisions with quality headphones.
>
> My opinion. Yes there is a slight difference. But I
> still love MD, the sound is great - the features are
> great, and I will continue to use it so long as the
> medium exists (and I hope that will be a long long
> time).
Still, can you say for sure the difference is due to the format itself?
Are you able to discount the DAC, analog stage, amp, etc.?
I don't think it is fair for anyone to say MD itself is inferior without
doing double-blind testing using the SAME DAC, SAME speakers, SAME amp,
with everything identical.
You can compare two specific models, but I don't think you can do a
direct MD/CD comparison without removing more variables. A similar
unfair comparison would be to compare the headphone output of a cheap
Acer CD-ROM drive to the output of an MDS-JB930. I'm sure the JB930
would sound WAY better than the CD-ROM drive, but still, we cannot
conclude that MD sounds better than CD.
I doubt the Circuit City web guy is as thorough in his testing. IMO, he
should not have bothered with his little sidebar which to me sounds like
100% biased opinion and not hard fact.
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