* Quoting a message from Aurelio Martinez to Tom Moore.
 -> I have been using MiniDisks almost since they came out.  I use one to
 -> master
 -> direct to 2 track recordings and they sound great.  The purists scoff at
 -> MD
 -> but I have achieved excellent results with mine.
 AM> I agree, the minidisk format gives you the recordability of a cassette
 AM> and the
 AM> conveinence of a CD.  You can jump from song to song instead of having
 AM> to
 AM> rewind or fast forward.  Hopefully the costs will come down some.
 AM> How would you compare your minidisk recordings to that of a cassette
 AM> tape?
Excuse me for jumping in, but IMHO the MD is great for portable audio where 
the demands are not as high as for, let's say, home use, or professional use. 
If you record directly from CD digitally i was unable to hear any difference 
on the test set i tried on (JBL studiomonitors, Sentec amp). So if you record 
digitally from a digital source it is hard to hear any diffrence, but then we 
tried to record the same signal analogically(?) and found some deteriation of 
the sound. The sound then was about as good as a metal (type IV) tape 
recorded on our reference deck (Pioneer CT979). The noise from the tape (as 
we didn't use Dolby NR) is not there on the MD but if we used Dolby C we 
couldn't hear any noise and the signal was, to our ears, the same as the 
analogically recorded MD. But offcourse, MD is much more convenient to use, 
but i have found them to be quite sensitive over time, as one of our early 
recordings has an error where it goes quiet for about 3 secs and then it 
jumps into the song at about 10 secs later.  
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