>>The good news is that the recording process is fast and the sound quality decent. My first compilation is basically Jimi Hendrix's "Rainbow Bridge" which is a favorite of mine that is currently out of print. I recorded 6 tracks, 5 of which seem basically indistinguishable from the CD on my Jensen JPS-45 speakers. Oddly though, one of the tracks seems inferior, but listenable. Anyway, so far so good.<<
Excuse me one minute...one eyelid is twitching, and one side of my body is about to go into convulsions. I think it's something called a conniption.
Why use an inferior medium like Zip to listen to music, let alone Jimi? CD quality is bad enough, Minidisc is worse, but to squash the sound into little wads of Zip-compressed garbage is sacrilege.
You know, there ARE devices known as CD players. They are made to only play CD's, and they do it very well. There is no lag time in your computer. There is no need to upgrade anything. And, best of all, there is no need to squash 650MB of music into 100MB, thereby making Jimi's Little Wing indistinguishable from Wind Beneath My Wings (Ack!).
BTW, The good news is, DVD Audio is getting ready, and the sound quality is reported to be 96K sample rate, 32 bit audio. (CD is 44.1k, 16 bit). The data on both mediums is not compressed. If we have to be forced to listen to digital recordings, at least the quality standard is getting better. Zip and other compressed mediums just makes it worse. |
