mandeep

well hopefully when i get the time i try it out and see.

I am a MD user since 99, and the R50 is still the best unit out there. basically with all this new format stuff, i have dabbled with ipod and decided to stick with MD. my main problem is preserving my recordings long term 20yrs down the rd without loosing the quality initially i was considering do my live recordings in wav, keep the wavs in some lossless format and then another set in mp3/4 or whatevers the coolest out. however i just gone off the idea of having to carry my entire collection around with me, i prefer to actually physically hold my recordings irrespective of what im going to play them on. like i dont want a hdd player for the car, then the house then the office and manage keeping everything in sync! rather have a protable medium and players. <--------------> so now i solved that, i dont fancy storing recordings in Wav for obvious reasons. so im thinking is there a way to preserve the quality long term between formats. one day when i transfered a md to pc (digitally) and did my editing and then recorded it live back to MD (digitally) i did not notice any degredation in quality (source and destination was lp2 and stored on pc in wav) so im thinking MD records what it hears, so in theroy if we transfer our audios LINERARLY! (assuming same if not higher bitrates) we should not observe any degredation in quality??? so i propose somone record a track to pc and record back to md, all digitally. do this 15x and compare the quality to the origional track and lets see if the quality stays the same, so in a sense we have achicved lossless atrac in a sense after the initial compression it would also be interesting if somone compared this to recoring to pc and then actually encoding it into lp2 and using the checkout. record lineraly bak to pc and encode the wav again. do this 15x and let see the diffference. i suspect there will be no difference in quality on the linear one what so ever but the encoded one will be messed up. interesting implications if im correct!