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[Martin_1962]

I have come across a few compression method and to be honest MP3 does not impress - I feel that ATRAC is better for a similar bit rate.

Anyway sound qualities.

Best I have heard is DVD-Audio, followed by SACD, then some DVD PCM tracks, then a really good CD or LP.

For quality the surround sound systems are so variable anway here goes the next set.

BD Dolby Digital (pretty high bit rate)
HiFi audio on some VCRs (but not surround)
DTS
DD 5.1
NICAM
Bottom of CD and LP sound
Minidisk
top DTTV & DSTV sound
Good Cassette
normal DTTV & DSTV sound
normal MP3
poor DTTV & DSTV sound
Poor cassette

I think I would have reversed the Minidisc and MP3, but totally agree with your top 5

Oh, and you missed out Sony Minidisc LP with predictive compression which must go firmly at the bottom

 

I notice no hdcd in there
im guessing i was the only one to buy a machine 

doug

Never seen one.
What is funny is that my DVD player was popular as a CD transport, but it could blow any CD player away by changing the disc type - Pioneer DV575

[doog]

Actually I have a Minidisc Walkman and the quality is pretty good, I prefer the normal compression to the compression Sonic Stage uses but it sounds better than these little mp3 players.

HOWEVER Sennheiser PX100s are in use.

My MD car head unit sounds better than my CD changer with mp3 - I think I used 192 or 256 when I compressed them. The CD-DA does sound better than MD. Most of my CDs are simply copies of my own audio CDs.

DAB - haven't heard it in ages but poor quality must be a battle between MW and Amstrad CD HiFI I once heard in the entrance to a Laskys.

I am not bothering with ultimate poor spund such as dictaphones or the linear VCR sound. Beta was of course at both ends with the slowest tape speed and the fastest helical scan speed. The HiFi VCRs were probably the best analogue audio recorders for home use so far.

are the px100 headphones anygood?
If i go out on my bike i take my sen hd25s  as they are the smallest headphones i have  but i would like something sensible when im out and about  but i dont want to listen to crap

i use my hd25s for dj work and beyeydynamic dt770 at home as cheap headphones annoy me

Doug

[waspy]

this is the correct way to recieve DAB in the car
use an external antenna 
I never have any reception issues  like i did with FM
Fm has more depth and does not have the compressed sound that DAB has, that said there is no planet rock on Fm

Can i ask what make of aerial that is?

its a JVC hal3  dab only antenna
works very well and gets all the stations i get at home  on my dab tuner and folded dipole

Doug

What is all this Hal3, Hal2 Hal1 etc :-/ :-/ Could some one tell me please

[mathewst]

Hmm maybe you guys call it differently but I didn't se anywhere on your list DAT's.

[Dave DND]

Hmm maybe you guys call it differently but I didn't se anywhere on your list DAT's.

Very few people here in the UK have any experience of DAT as it was a format that never really took off.

The quality wasn`t bad, but it was let down by mechanisms that kept chewing the tapes, meaning that customers lost faith in it right from the start.

 

[doog]

this is the correct way to recieve DAB in the car
use an external antenna 
I never have any reception issues  like i did with FM
Fm has more depth and does not have the compressed sound that DAB has, that said there is no planet rock on Fm

Can i ask what make of aerial that is?

its a JVC hal3  dab only antenna
works very well and gets all the stations i get at home  on my dab tuner and folded dipole

Doug

What is all this Hal3, Hal2 Hal1 etc :-/ :-/ Could some one tell me please

the jvc hal range is hal 1 is the stick on sindscreen dab antenna
dab2 is dab and fm  and dab3 is dab only bolt through the roof

Doug

[waspy]

Thanks Doug

[Martin_1962]

The Sennheiser PX range are all pretty good and also good value for money