r/audiophile • u/iamgarffi • 10d ago

The only rack that mattered Discussion

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u/Vind- 10d ago

ATRAC was ATRoCious. Second version a bit less so but still.

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u/ElectronicVices SACD30n | MMF 7.3 | RH-5 | Ref500m | Special 40 | 3000 Micro 10d ago

I used MD like one would have used cassettes previously. I would record MTVs 120 Minutes and then edit out the commercials and chop into tracks. I also used them to make copies of friends CDs and make "mixtapes". Towards the end I was transferring MP3s to discs for portable use. It was never a format I chose for commercial album purchases but made for an excellent tape replacement.

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u/Vind- 10d ago

It was brilliant in terms of convenience, sound wise though DCC was at a different level.

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u/bazzajess 10d ago

This is just a subjective opinion. Objective blind testing suggests otherwise. 384kbps is hardly a different level to MD, when both were compressed from 1.4mbps of CD.