raintheory Posted April 9, 2008 Report Share Posted April 9, 2008 Stumbled across this interesting discussion at HA:http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=62488Pretty wild debate happening. Not surprisingly there is confusion stemming from the definition of "Atrac" (whether it's Atrac, Atrac3, or Atrac3plus).. Anyway the consensus there seems to be that Mp3 is superior. I say we get a bunch of 2nd gen Hi-MD recorders and put a combination of Atrac3plus and Mp3 files on them and see what they find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strungup Posted April 9, 2008 Report Share Posted April 9, 2008 Wild ride over there , One post had the arrogance of saying " Musicians dont use MD , they use DAT or ...." whatever , The countless hours of stuff , bar room jams, Improves, Bootlegs, Concerts, Open mic nights , Rehearsals ,........... that I have caught on MD ........Musicians dont use Md , .......OK I am right there with Ya dude ,......not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 I say we get a bunch of 2nd gen Hi-MD recorders and put a combination of Atrac3plus and Mp3 files on them and see what they find. Why not the RH1? Are you afraid of the results? Everybody knows that the 2nd gen units has crippled MP3 playback. The best way to do ABX is to decode everything to WAV. That way there will be no arguments against the decoding method of certain codecs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strungup Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 (edited) Why not the RH1? Are you afraid of the results? Everybody knows that the 2nd gen units has crippled MP3 playback. The best way to do ABX is to decode everything to WAV. That way there will be no arguments against the decoding method of certain codecs.I have to agree Pata , I played some MP3 language lessons on my RH1 last night and was surprised at how good they sounded compared to the playback on the EX; DH10pThe whole audiophile Argument thing is just getting to the point of Arguing for the sake of Argument , and nothing about substance. Either it works for you or it doesn't , if it works for you , then enjoy it and do something with it .If it doesn't work then get what does . Where is the Argument after that ??????????????????????? Edited April 10, 2008 by Guitarfxr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZosoIV Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 Honestly, I doubt there would be much difference between formats at the high bitrates audiophiles prefer. The RH1 does make a beautiful sounding MP3 player, though, if you use the LAME encoder to make your files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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