[Audio Empire]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 04:34:02 -0700, glenbadd wrote
(in article ):

On Sep 3, 1:02=A0am, Sebastian Kaliszewski
wrote:

Well, to be exact, there were some CD palyers which had significant read
ahead buffer and read CD at higher speed and in case of errors could
reread the same fragment. That was used mainly in portable (and maybe
some car) players.

rgds
\SK

This is how MiniDisc worked (God rest its soul). The disk would spin
up,
the player would read many megs worth of data into an internal
memory buffer, and then the disk would stop spinning. This saved
a lot of power in portable players. I have a Sony MZ-N505 portable
and a Sony JB-930 deck ( http://www.minidisc.org/sony_mdsjb930_review.html
.
The deck has great sound, but thats OT for this thread...


I have a Sony MZ-RH910 Hi-MD. I have even made live recordings with it (in
the 16-bit/44.1 KHz PCM mode using the line input) as a back-up recorder. I
always thought that Atrac sounded better than MP3 and chalked it up to a
better lossy compression algorithm, but perhaps what you just described is
what's really at work here.