Well is it?

Basically I'm restricted as to what I can add to my setup - at the moment -
as my CD player/preamp is the Quad 99 CD-P. Anything I add has to be
digital. I was thinking of a minidisc seperate as I own a oprtable minidisc
player and it's not particularly reliable when it omes to recording entire
albums, quite often completely missing information. So I'm looking for
something a little more sturdy.

Would I be better to perhaps go for a CD burner and a Discman portable
player? Or perhaps one of those Yamaha things with the built in hard drive?

Suggestions please
The EggKing

In article , The EggKing wrote:
Well is it?

It's hardly going to spontaneously stop working for no apparent reason,
and I expect the media to be cheaply available for a very long time;
I think it's niche, but fairly safe niche, as a portable recording
format in particular.

If removable media, random access, and rewritability matter to you
(which they do for me), it's still one of the digital formats of choice
I think.

- Andrew (very happy with his Sony MZ-N1, thanks )

In message , Andrew
Walkingshaw writes
In article , The EggKing wrote:
Well is it?

It's hardly going to spontaneously stop working for no apparent reason,
and I expect the media to be cheaply available for a very long time;
I think it's niche, but fairly safe niche, as a portable recording
format in particular.

If removable media, random access, and rewritability matter to you
(which they do for me), it's still one of the digital formats of choice
I think.

- Andrew (very happy with his Sony MZ-N1, thanks )

And Minidisc is the obvious format for car use. (Works well for me)

(I really can't understand why people put up with huge clunky CDs in the
car, they are a nightmare just to put in the player!)
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Chris Morriss

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:22:56 +0100, Chris Morriss
wrote:

And Minidisc is the obvious format for car use. (Works well for me)

(I really can't understand why people put up with huge clunky CDs in the
car, they are a nightmare just to put in the player!)

DAT is, in my view, even better. I can fit a three hour opera on a
tape costing a few pounds at full CD quality. This is more than
sufficient for most journeys. Another advantage is that DAT is
effectively jog-proof.

It's such a shame that portable DAT recorders are so expensive,
especially since my old Casio machine is no longer working very well.
:-(


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Chris Isbell
Southampton
UK

A certain The EggKing, of uk.rec.audio "fame", writes :

Would I be better to perhaps go for a CD burner and a Discman portable
player? Or perhaps one of those Yamaha things with the built in hard drive?

I love Minidisc but it's only strength is portability (and for that
reason it is by no means "dead"!). If you need to record works, keep
them on CDs.

--

"Jokes mentioning ducks were considered particularly funny." - cnn.com

The EggKing in uk.rec.audio:

Well is it?

If by dead you mean can't buy music on it then it was never alive, but the
format seems at least as useful as ever. There are perhaps more people
using them now than any other time.

The compression used is a little old fashioned next to mp3, itself invented
more than twelve years ago. Maybe you are more patient than I, but if I
were to buy player it would be one with pc conectivity so that the music
could be transfered faster than at play speeds. Some of the more recent
minidisk devices do this. I think Sony call them NetMD or somthing.

No brand, but still good mp3 players can be had quite cheaply, maybe you
can hunt down a 'george'[1] in the uk (Richer used to have them, but were
asking a high price and I remember seeing a few on ebay)

Lastly, if you want a portable device with cheap media consider an 8cm cd
player, the discs hold 180Mb, which is good for quite a few mp3 albums. You
can burn or read in virtually any cd drive/player. Anything mechanical now
is stopgap, mind, solid state is the future.

[1] see http://www.dansdata.com/usbmp3.htm

--
Jim H
3.1415...4999999 and so on... Richard Feynman