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Re: new gadget

new gadgetFrom: goddard.duncan@mtvne.com:
> all- apologies if this thing has been mentioned here before & escaped my 
> notice..... from time to time in the past, we have discussed & debated 
>the 
> most cost-effective &/or reliable way of preserving performances for 
>later 
> re-appreciation. minidiscs, dats, laptops, cassette recorders, mini hard 
> disc recorders & even things that use flash memory.

<snip>

>but this thing can record from it's rca jacks (we call 'em phonos over 
>here) straight onto pretty much any usb storage device, as uncompressed 
>wav 
>or a variety of mp3 templates, & it only has two buttons. you can even 
>connect it straight onto one of those ipod things.

***************

Happy New Year all, and a belated Happy Christmas etc.

We went to a dept store here that's closing their Kensington branch 
(Oxford 
Street!  Ugh!), and a huge sale's been going on for a month to clear the 
place out.  A Panasonic 5-CD/Tape/Tuner with 120W/channel for £50 - Came 
home with us and I found that it both plays and records to SD, this 
new-fangled memory card.  It's highest quality is 128K.  While we got the 
unit just to play CDs and have a separate stereo from the DVD player/amp, 
I 
couldn't help but wonder about relative quality for the purpose of 
transporting recordings to the PC for clean-up, mixdown and other use on 
the 
way to CD or Audio DVD.

You might say, "Why not just buy a cassette deck?"  Well, a walk around 
the 
stores the past few months has shown me how the cassette player is going 
the 
way of the 8-track but not for the same reasons of course; simple decks 
are 
scarce, always come with two bays and are more than £150.  A look through 
eBay finds almost none at all.  So at the same sale I saw a single-bay 
Sony 
deck for almost nothing, and snapped it up.  Unfortunately it was 
non-functional, as were the lot of five the store had.

Well, then, what about the SD?  I plan on our next PCs having multi-format 
card readers on the front panel anyway which would provide the transport. 
But would the results via SD be as good as a line-in recording at the same 
sample rate (128k)?  Kindly advise.

Stephen Goodman
* Cartoons about DVDs and Stuff
* http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack