Guest Gray Rider Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 I'm a little upset that sony is not making more expensive high-quality discmans at the moment. These all have a sound unique to their own and use superior electronics. Plus CD quality sound is superior to compressed atrac. Why doesn't sony release Hi-CDs the same way it released hi-capacity DVDs that are around 4.7 Gigs each? Why do these CDs with video and not sound? They should also release quality Hi-CD discmans to replace the older Discmans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky191 Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 Maybe because HiCD isn't a real format?CD quality sound isn't superior to compressed ATRAC only to Lossy ATRAC. Lossless ATRAC is compressed but should be the same quality as a CD. Everyones buying DAPs, no ones buying CD portables. Thats why they won't make them. The market for hi quality audio is small and high quality audio can be achieved by a DAP if you know what you are doing, and its a lot more convenient and portable. (for most people). Head-Fi is full of these kinda people, using portable amps and iModded iPods etc. http://www.redwineaudio.com/Products.html There used to a lot of posts about CD portables there, but very few are using them now. Still some interest in the Vintage portables though. If you mean SACD then no they haven't released one. There are a few DVD-A players though. Dunno if they have a decent signal path though, most of them seem to be cheaper players and probably a half decent DAP would sound better. http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-DVD-LA95-P...r/dp/B00005OP2Thttp://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1240 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 * Topic closed as it is a duplicate of this onehttp://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=19540&hl= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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