If that's the Hi-MD recorder, they have a USB connection.
True, but then that wouldn't be a fair comparison vs. the UA-5>JB3 which is uncompressed. If it were a Hi-MD he would have used uncompressed PCM, not ATRAC compressed, to compare the A/D's.
It was an HiMD. But I neglected to use uncompressed mode. I used HiSP, which is ATRAC at 256kbps.
I guess I could do some post processing, like play the NJB3 recording thru a digital out soundcard, and record it compressed on my MD too.
I still think it is the ADC, but you're right, the verdict is not 100%.
Richard
That's too bad, kind of an apples to oranges comparison, I don't think you can blame the HiMD A/D for any difference heard when the audio was captured using about 1/20th the bandwidth.
Also, from what I remember bad things happen when you compress music that's already been compressed. So going from ATRAC3+ to mp3 might have introduced some artifacts.
Can you do another one using uncompressed .wav on the Hi-MD and a stock UA-5 to a JB3? _That_ would be really awesome, I don't think it's been done yet.
Actually a 3 way comp of HiMD, JB3, and a diy digimod UA-5 would be awesome. I think you're one of the few out there with the HiMD and UA-5! Please, please, please!!! Can you simply split the signal and get simultaneous A/D comparisons?