If the source is lossy, the xfer will be lossy.
OK, we're talking about two different things here.
Everyone knows that legacy MD recordings are encoded with ATRAC.
BUT: it's reasonable to expect a way to go straight from ATRAC to WAV, without taking a detour over a third compressed format. So I'm looking for a transfer method
that will not incurr even further losses, as suggested by the link above.
I would be skeptical of any gurus on this board when it comes to MD's. If you want some skinny from the folks who know I would suggest you go to minidisc.org, a board devoted to the minidisc. YMMV
Sure, i've been looking there too. Until I posted a link to TS.com yesterday, there was no technical evidence that anyone had made a side-by-side test and proved that RH1 transfers were on par with optical realtime transfers.
Now, it seems that at least two users there have been more successful:
http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=19039The posts were relocated to this forum in 2009:
http://forums.sonyinsider.com/index.php?showtopic=21070Has Sony improved their software since nardo posted his findings back in December?! How can you otherwise explain the loss of frequency that he experienced?
I don't know what to believe anymore. Is this myth "busted" or not?
/Jan