Guest Anonymous Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 Hey i just bought a Sharp MD-MT15 mini disc player i know its an older player. I got one question whats the advantage of recording using a digital optical cable over an analog cable. And if i used my freinds sony Net md recorder to record a mini disc under the standard mode how many songs would i be able to fit on a mini disc. And how many songs would i be able to fit on a mini disc using both analog and digital methods ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 You get a purer signal to record with digital, as there's no intermediate conversion involved. With analogue the signal is converted from digital to analogue and then back to digital for the recording. This can result in some degradation of the original signal and analogue artifacts such as hiss. If it's done with good cables and equipment, an analogue recording can sound as good a digital, so dont write it off, and of course if you record from an analogue source such as tape or record this will have to be done via analogue. Also, if you want to record a MD with SCMS or CD with copy control, you'll usually need to go analogue. There's also the convenience factor: with digital you just plug in the cables and record, without having to worry about recording levels (unless you want to), whereas with analogue you often have to tweak the levels to get the best results. The maximum recording time is 80 minutes in standard (SP) mode, or roughly 20 songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 Digital and optical recordings will have the same size - it depends on what recording mode you used - SP, LP2, LP4 or Mono. On an 80-minute disc, SP will manage 80 minutes, LP2 will manage 160 minutes, and LP4 will manage roughly 320 minutes. I advise you against using Standard in NetMD. It's pointless. You'll get something that sounds like LP2 but takes up the space of SP. As long as you don't have any minidisc players around the house that can't read MDLP, you ought to use LP2 in NetMD rather than Standard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAjEsTiC Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 adding on to wot KJ_Palmer said above, analogue cables are susceptable to interferences since it uses a copper cable (of some sort - though usually very well shielded on the best cables) whereas digital uses fibre optics which are not susceptable to any type of interferences... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted November 6, 2003 Report Share Posted November 6, 2003 It's not just because of the type of cable used, but because of the nature of the signal. Interference is basically random analogue noise. A digital signal is not really a signal, but rather a stream of on-off pulses at a predetermined strength, and as such it isn't affected by interference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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