Guest Anonymous Posted January 29, 2003 Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 Hi Im planning to get an md recorder (sony r910) and im wondering if the mp3 quality affect the sound quality on the md. For example, would a 320bitrate mp3 recorded into any mode (SP, LP2,LP4) be any diffrent than 128bitrate mp3 into any mode?¿ Also, would the sound quality of a disc degrade after repetitive use (like in casettes)?? Thnx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 The higher Kbps the MP3, the better sound quality you will get when it goes onto your MD. For best results, where available, use the original CDs. You might also find that your soundcard is noisy (puts out some hiss and stuff like that), in which case this will be recorded too - it shouldn't be too bad though. The headphone out on your CD drive is probably a lot cleaner (I know mine are), so when recording, if you can use a CD and the headphone jack on the drive then that is much better than the output on your soundcard. However what is even better is an optical digital out - these are on some higher end soundcards and many DVD players. If you have a DVD player and a CD burner, then you might be able to use the optical out on your DVD player. Realistically, I found that the headphone out on the CD drive was more than adequate and I used my soundcard's output when I had mp3s (except in one case where sound quality was pretty important, so I burnt (burned?) a CD). Your best option is probably to just do a few test runs, see if your soundcard is good, or crap (like mine ), test the difference between all the LP modes and even a couple of different versions of the same MP3 will different Kbps. I haven't heard of anyone having a problem with the sound quality of MD, but there are still ways to make sure it sounds "best" Finally - once the music is on the disc, the quality won't degrade. The only exceptions I can think of would be if you got a huge chunk of dust on the disc, in which case, sometimes your MD will make up stuff to replace what it can't read... it is very doubtful that you would be able to notice this though unless it was a huge nasty piece of dust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 Ya, that's what i thought too. Thanks But in the second part that's not what i meant, sry. Like for casettes, if u re-record over and over again the quality goes down. Does that happen to md also?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daijoubu Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 No, MiniDisc are digital Does CD-RW quality degrade? Nop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 Thanks I have another question, you know at the airports, they have those scanners. If my discs go through nothing changes right?? But the md use magnetic/optical thing....so im confused and worried... :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted February 1, 2003 Report Share Posted February 1, 2003 I took my MDs through the metal detector at the airport and they all survived. I can't remember exactly what they went through, but I'm pretty sure they will be safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daijoubu Posted February 6, 2003 Report Share Posted February 6, 2003 Safe, MDs can't be erased so easily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
me Posted February 6, 2003 Report Share Posted February 6, 2003 before NetMD, sony would boast about 'Can be re-recorded over 1,000,000 times without loss of quality' now it's just 'can record at up to 32x' bs. Gimme real MD ads!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted February 12, 2003 Report Share Posted February 12, 2003 lol ok, thanx ....guess i need more MD than i thought:roll: ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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