Better? Than CD, presumably?
As soon as I learnt how CD worked, I knew it was two steps forward and three back. Just not enough resolution.
Actually listening to them (waaay back, before they were even for sale) confirmed my fears.
It was introduced before both AD/DA conversion and optical disc manufacture were mature technologies.
Had it waited a decade, for PCM resolution at least three or four times higher, and a disc able to to accomodate the same 74 minutes (or more) of this increased amount of data, it might not have been the disaster it was.
As soon as I learnt how CD worked, I knew it was two steps forward and three back. Just not enough resolution.
Actually listening to them (waaay back, before they were even for sale) confirmed my fears.
It was introduced before both AD/DA conversion and optical disc manufacture were mature technologies.
Had it waited a decade, for PCM resolution at least three or four times higher, and a disc able to to accomodate the same 74 minutes (or more) of this increased amount of data, it might not have been the disaster it was.