Sony Hi MD vs Rockbox X5

[z-man]

Having made a lot of live recordings with a Sony MZ-NH900 Hi-Md walkman in past, I came across an article in the AnythingButIpod Forum stating something like ".... recordings with an iAUDIO X5 do sound even better..."

Well ... I didn't ever doubt the sound quality of the Sony, but transferring files with Sonicstage and last not least the nearly unreadable display made me getting a brand new X5 last week.

Of course - and no problem thanks to your great software - I went right into comparing the two devices. Keeping things short: To me, the Sony and the X5 really sound the same. And doing the comparison a little more sophisticated by recording some Gauss noise, the two curves don't look really different, either.



(For your convenience, you may want to download a more readable picture at
http://media.svirensvansig.com/rockbox/cow-walk-gaus-big.gif)

Excuse me, if all this is a little too less Rockbox related, but if you're interested I would post another comparision re Recoding Quality / Encoding.

[petur]

Nice graph. The Sony does appear to follow the gauss trace a bit better, it seems


We're always interested in quality analysis of our inputs/outputs, so post whenever you find something interesting, but maybe better put it in a wiki page.

And having a compare graph with the original firmware would be great too!

[Llorean]

I think "comparing to other devices" is off topic here. We really should be interested just in comparison between Rockbox and the original firmware. Otherwise we could have comparisons of basically every device known to man that can record and someone is curious about.

Comparison of devices really belongs somewhere recording centric, while "knowing whether Rockbox's recording code has problems that may decrease recording quality" is something that's good to know.

[petur]

Anything to convince tapers of our quality, Paul

[Llorean]

Regardless, this sort of information belongs in a wiki page.