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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