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Originally Posted by vicsbitz

If it went to Mini Disc at any point, you've lost data you'll never retrieve. MDs use compression by definition. It's called ATRAC and it's much better than MP3, but it IS lossy.

Now, if there is no master recording on a lossless medium, then it would be best to first ' freeze ' the recording into a losssless format first, from your master, hopefully... then the loss will only be from your Master>lossless-format-copy generation.

Minidisc cannot be copied without generational loss... including audible artifacts like pops buzzes, dropouts... you may not notice it on the first generation or more... but it's there, lossy trading pollutes the gene pool.


I'd have to say - since you have *some* energy over 15-16kHz, I'd say this hasn't seen an MP3 compressor. BUT - being MiniDisc, it's lossy by definition.