Thank you!! I appreciate you watching!

Oh yeah, its a fun little machine. Thanks for watching!

I wish I'd seen one at a thrift store! Thanks for your comment!

I was just thinking the same thing. Overcompressed audio... some modern CDs really do sound awful compared to the older, properly-mastered ones. As you say, the "war of loudness" ended, and in most cases... "louder" won.

Deliternity MP3 is also a variant of MP1, in that MP3 is actually shorthand for “MPEG-1 Layer 3”.

Cool, thanks.

It's been a long time but I think so.

lizichell2 That's a much larger stretch actually. At least PASC and CD are both digital mediums with similar fidelity.

I was exaggerating to emphasise a point. CD is uncompressed PCM audio and has frequency content clear to 20kHz. MP3 at best has about 17.

I have known people who believe a JPEG can look better than a TIFF image. Someone I knew in the late 90's was adamant that CD-R's "for music" sounded better than normal CD-R's. It's just the complete lack of understanding of how these things work. It's the same people that swear that there is no audible difference between the original CD track and an mp3 version of the same track.

This is true. Mastering is appalling now. Look at the levels of any moderns stuff and it has no dynamic range and is clipping constantly. Play some 80s stuff on your vinyl and "oh, hello my old friend dynamic range". CDs can be mastered like this too.

My thoughts exactly. The compress the crap out of music on CDs to make them louder. This obviously makes them harsh and takes the life away out of any song. If they only preserved the true dynamic range of the original music, it would sound a whole lot better. They even compress CLASSICAL music on cd, a type of music which needs good dynamic range in order to be appreciated fully. That's just awful

Not exactly, it's much louder so it may damage your ears or loudspeaker if you don't turn down the volume. How do I know? I prepared a regular audio cassette for recording like a digital tape by drilling two holes in it. The holes are to notice if it's a dcc or an analog cassette. Curiously I played the prepared cassettes in an analog cassette player. It nearly destroyed my loudspeaker, my ears and it was so loud that I might have had a heart attack. Btw. it failed because a dcc has more contact pressure to the recording head than a regular cassette by using some extra mechanics. The regular cassette had too much drop outs. I only used it for a couple of month because it started destroying the tapes and I switched to Mini Disc.

Robert Gaines Also, I you’d only be getting part of it. DCC uses more tracks than analog compact cassette.

@@tookitogo True. DCC has a total of 18 tracks (nine for each side). Eight of the tracks are for audio (the data is split up among the eight tracks to allow for digital storage with a tape moving at standard cassette speed), and the ninth track is for data (such as metadata).

+Alan greenway - cap replacement may be in your future, yes

+databits I agree how dcc seems to sound almost better than cd that Susan Vega album sounds incredible on my system

Mark, how about this one: www.dutchaudioclassics.nl/philips_dcc175_multimedia_portable_dcc_recorder/

Thanks for the link to the DCC-175/170 article.

Chris W. Rohlfs Yes, the unit does have to have a tape in it. But there is also a tiny switch inside that detects the tape. If that microswitch is bad, it won't power up either.

Chris W. Rohlfs Remove the rechargeable battery and try powering it up again.

Will try that thx

TheDutchOwner's Tech Channel - Could you send some of that DCC stuff over to me? Haha.

lol, I may have the three but only one works properly. Two won't play back standard tapes and won't record even after a re-cap and the other will need new drive belts soon :(

Brian Taylor Ugh, thats very frustrating Brian. Which models do you have?

databits . At least one records fine and the other two play back DCC's fine but I plan to take another good look at them in the near future. I have a Philips model 600 and 910 plus a Marantz DD82. I also have another DD82 which has no tape mechanism that I use as a DAC and ADC.

TheDutchOwner's Tech Channel Hi, Cheers for that info. There does appear to be a lot of DCC stuff on there and a low prices. Only problem is, and I don't mean to sound ignorant but I don't understand any of the language and can't work out how to purchase the stuff. I'm watching a car DCC/Tuner unit on Ebay which I've been after for some time.

Daniel DeMayo The sound format was initially a 1:4 compressed 16bit format @ 44.1KHz and later a 18bit format at the same sampling rate, and although all DCC recorders allowed for recording and playback of 48kHz and 32kHz, most units did not have A/D or sampling rate converters capable of using those - so recording of 48 and 32 kHz was usually only possible via the digital inputs... if the original material demanded it.

Ah i see. Thx for the info!

I used a Minidisc daily for several years - maybe the early players were bad for skipping, but the almost stupidly long skip buffer and "high speed pre-read" in the later players (NetMD era and HiMD) certainly helped.

DAVID GREGORY KERR you mean Suzanne Vega?

I used a CD player and later a MD player in my car. The CD player skiped a lot on bad road conditions, the Mini Disc didn't at all.

DAVID GREGORY KERR If a MiniDisc player was skipping, then it or the disc was severely compromised. I used MD for years and other than vigorously shaking it for 20+ seconds at a time to artificially induce skipping, I literally never once experienced skipping.

Mihai Gradin You can't. The cartridge won't allow it.

Thanks for the answer.

Jac Goudsmit OK,thanks for the answer!That's what I meant to say.(if you put the tape in a standard compact cassette housing)

I remember reading somewhere that Shinji used some variation of DAT, and that's what the player looked like to me.

Thanks Ramon. You got yours ordered? :D

Il be searching on the web if im lucky to find one

I think it was a case of a potentially good format introduced at the wrong time. I think it might have met with more success if it had been introduced instead of the Compact Disc. I think what ultimately doomed DCC was the following: - Introduction of affordable recordable compact discs. - Introduction of Minidisc - Although it was a significant improvement over the compact cassette, it was also possible to get excellent results via the use of metal tapes.

lizichell2 Not even close.

It's a primitive version of an already terrible lossy codec