Quote: Originally posted by br-- [B]I'm surprised that many of you can't tell the difference between compressed and uncompressed music. I was just comparing WAV, 320kbps AAC, and 320kbps MP3 on my speaker system (from my computer, not the iPod). The difference is huge. The WAVs seem to...

Quote: Originally posted by Taphil The Creative NJB3 has gapless playback, but there's still a 0.1sec silence like mtillman said due to the acutal mp3 file. I think if you encode with Creative's Play Center, it will play gaplessly on the NJB3 when you transfer it over. I don't know if...

Anyone know of any PCDP or hard drive players which can seemlessly play 'mixed' albums (where each track merges into the next)? i can't find any info on the web about this yet i think it's an important feature - nothing worse than a second or so of silence while the player changes track...

cheers all for advice. the sync on analog is something i can't do without - useful for recording radio shows while out (kind of timer record), so guess that rules out all sony's for recording. surprised sonys don't have this. i'll take a look at t-forums, cheers.

sorry i couldn't post the samples, my soundcard is pants. yup it's down to personal taste. with my limited setup tried a number of tracks and think the quality of the coustic/guitar-based stuff is most important to me. 'the bends' album recorded on the sharp sounded more lively overall...

thanks leon. For info, playback of both recordings was carried out using sony mz-r501 hooked up to pioneer a-400x amp and a pair of MS 906's (decent kit) - headphone amp not a factor. If you're right in saying the sharp has better playback (not into emphasied bass mind) maybe my old sharp...

this looks like a serious forum - just what the doc ordered, would be grateful for thoughts please re sony MZ-N1 and MZR909, If you don't like stories please skip to summary. think i messed up. i tried a friend's sony mzr501 with my collection of sharp mdmt877-recorded md's and thought it...