PC to MD

[turbodemon]

Hi folks, lately i have had a great hifi experience on PC to MD (SP-realtime) recording using the following settings, give it a try and tell me what do you think.

MD recording units = MZ RH1 and MZ R55

Optical output = Realtek High definition audio device

Optical cable = Dual rotating connector Toslink/3.5 mm, O.D. 5 mm, black - 0.5 m

Software = Foobar 2000 + Post-track silence DSP playing FLAC audio files .-

Now i can hear sounds and atmospheres that i have never listened when i used mp3 192 or 320kbs source, the new sound is near to CD quality, very open cristaline dinamics, and it demostrates the hi quality of the old ATRAC 4 encoding and of course the good quality of FLAC type files, almost cd quality i guess.

Now, after proving this settings perhaps we have here a new MD best friend, im talking about FLAC and loseless encodings obiusly, if we go hifi from PC to MD this is the answer, we all know that mp3 was born dead in terms of quality.

Merry Christmas and awesome end of the year

[sfbp]

I have documented elsewhere in this forum that recording direct to WAV files from a CD with Sonic Stage is not that great (because of Sonic Stage, which doesn't have a highquality, lowspeed ripper). Once I started using Atrac Advanced Lossless (under Sonic Stage) for ripping, I see (hear) most of the things you describe (I didn't actually try SP, but that's a good comparison point). The other advantage of AAL is that Sony didn't protect it with DRM, so uploads don't stop being usable when something happens to your PC - and no requirement to use the File Conversion Tool, of course.

But yes, even MP320 is no good. I would say LP4 is as good as almost any MP3 - provided the bits are not squandered reproducing hiss and noise.

Stephen

[turbodemon]

Hi Stephen

Thanks for your reflexion, i think that right now MD is getting serious when PC recording is requiered thanks to the looseless encodings and hi quality optic outputs, i have been recording from original to MD and then FlAC of the original to MD and it is very hard to tell the difference.

Perhaps a MD format revival? time will tell...

I would like to hear about other MD users experiences in this field and the sofware Foobar 2000 wich i find an awesome tool.

Cheers

Turbodemon