But I preferred the combination of affordability and portability MiniDiscs brought. Our audio reviewer, Tim Gideon, hated MiniDiscs because "the MiniDisc did plenty of damage as the first medium to represent a degradation in audio quality, rather than an improvement, over what came before it." The rich French girl in my college dorm had a DAT recorder instead. The players also had a certain "wow" factor, made as they were of sleek colored metal with futuristic little buttons on them. At the time, MiniDisc was the ultimate in portable music technologyhigher quality than cassettes and both more durable and smaller than CDs, with much longer battery life, better shock protection and recordability than portable CD players had. I was living in my friend Christy's attic until I could find a place, but I didn't want to do without my tunes. I'd collapsed my entire life into one large, 65-liter backpack and moved to London.
I bought into MiniDisc in late 1997 as part of a project of living light on the land. Sony announced Friday that it has finally stopped making the MiniDisc player after 21 years. Later you can burn the MiniDisc master copy to CD for your friends. Muscle to the front of the crowd, wave your hands in the air like you just don't care, but don't wave them around too much. The mic cable ran down your shirt, the amp and MiniDisc recorder were down by your waist. This was how you bootlegged a concert in 1998you'd come into the hall with no bag, ready for the pat-down, with a stereo microphone wired up your arms and clipped to the inside of each sleeve.
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