bhw Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 Since the Hi-MD mode is still a compression mode and as I understand not lossless, is the totality of nuance of the sound as good as the new apple lossless algorithm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekdroid Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 Hi-MD will offer an option for linear PCM recording. ie. lossless 44.1, 16bit recording (CD-like). Meaning no crappy space-saving "u can't perceive it anyway" algorithm between you and your recordings. How they implement it will be another story, tho. ie. restrictions and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbdoah Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 PCM is a record-on-unit option only. PCM can't be transferred via NetMD. On the other hand, AL is awesome, I've already re-formatted almost have my iPod library to accomadate the new format. Time will tell before PCM and AL will be compared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 Time will tell before PCM and AL will be compared.There should be no difference - Lossless IS lossless. So this point is moot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumz Posted May 3, 2004 Report Share Posted May 3, 2004 What jadeclaw said-- the only sound quality difference you will hear will be because of the amp on your portable unit (iPod vs. Hi-MD unit). The main difference is that the Apple lossless compression takes up less space than PCM (roughly half the space I would guess). If you had something similar on Hi-MD, it might make regular 80min discs more usable for PCM recording, and you'd be able to fit 3 hours of lossless music on a 1GB disc. For me, Hi-SP will suit me fine. I have an mp3 player and I would never fill it up with lossless files, simply because they take up so much space and would be more taxing to read off my hard drive. That's just my personal preference, however. I can hear a difference between Hi-SP and lossless, but it's not nearly serious enough for me to be concerned-- Hi-SP sounds excellent to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efenili Posted May 3, 2004 Report Share Posted May 3, 2004 I have been reading reviews and forums all over for about a month now on portable Hard Drive Mp3 players. More often than not when compared to say portable CDplayers, even the highest quality they could get on the Iriver or Ipod was not even close. The word most often used is "disappointed" A few even explained they are waiting for SONY to jump on the HDD mp3 player train and get some good sound out. I hope that this advertised "Like CD quality" is really what it says. I am still pretty far away from Iriver or Ipod and wanting to get the Hi-MD when it comes out. Anyways, just thought I would give you what I have read a lot of lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[StrangeByte] Posted May 4, 2004 Report Share Posted May 4, 2004 PCM is a record-on-unit option only. PCM can't be transferred via NetMD. On the other hand, AL is awesome, I've already re-formatted almost have my iPod library to accomadate the new format. i read somewhere that PCM recordings that were once uploaded from md unit to pc CAN be downloaded to the unit again; but only those that came from your unit. YES it's from the german sony hi-md faq. on page 4 there is a table. read the footnote *1 (for those of you that understand german) :cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted May 4, 2004 Report Share Posted May 4, 2004 "]YES it's from the german sony hi-md faq. on page 4 there is a table. read the footnote *1 (for those of you that understand german) :cool:Here: http://www.sony.net/Products/Hi-MD/capacity.html it is in English, just scroll down a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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