Distraught by noisy memory cards?
Distraught by noisy memory cards?
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RobDickinson

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31,343 posts

278 months

Thursday 19th February 2015
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Sony has the answer!

Premium memory cards with lower read noise! Their 'Premoum Sound' 64GB SR-64HXA microSDXC card will only set you back around $160

"We aren't that sure about the product's potential demand," a Sony spokesperson told the Journal, "but we thought some among people who are committed to great sound quality would want it."

http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/19/sony-premium-so...

How could a company this focused be going bust!?!

hidetheelephants

34,120 posts

217 months

Friday 20th February 2015
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It's like a business plan, only with fewer facts and less profit.

Troubleatmill

10,210 posts

183 months

Saturday 21st February 2015
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Dumb hat on.

Memory cards store data in the format 1 and 0.
There will likely be some checksums in there to counter any corruption.

There are no moving parts.

The audio format is not improved in any manner.

I would wager a month's salary - that in a double blind test - no one would be able to determine from a normal Sony memory card to the super duper Sony memory card.

I would also wager - that a computer reading both sets of cards comparing a music file stored bit by bit would find them identical.

I expect it to sell well.


hidetheelephants

34,120 posts

217 months

Saturday 21st February 2015
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Troubleatmill said:
I expect it to sell well.
Especially if it's marketed as having 24ct gold plate on the terminals, that's always a winner.

98elise

31,544 posts

185 months

Sunday 22nd February 2015
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Troubleatmill said:
Dumb hat on.

Memory cards store data in the format 1 and 0.
There will likely be some checksums in there to counter any corruption.

There are no moving parts.

The audio format is not improved in any manner.

I would wager a month's salary - that in a double blind test - no one would be able to determine from a normal Sony memory card to the super duper Sony memory card.

I would also wager - that a computer reading both sets of cards comparing a music file stored bit by bit would find them identical.

I expect it to sell well.
The 0's will be warmer and rounder, the 1's will be sharper.




helidan

116 posts

134 months

Sunday 22nd February 2015
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WTF?

Actually in all seriousness I'm sure I read somewhere about some memory cards generating above average levels of EMI/RFI or whatever they call it when data is being WRITTEN, but not during reads.

I've also read about people claiming sound quality can differ depending on where on a HDD the MP3 is stored.

A fool and his money...

RobDickinson

Original Poster:

31,343 posts

278 months

Sunday 22nd February 2015
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helidan said:
WTF?

Actually in all seriousness I'm sure I read somewhere about some memory cards generating above average levels of EMI/RFI or whatever they call it when data is being WRITTEN, but not during reads.

I've also read about people claiming sound quality can differ depending on where on a HDD the MP3 is stored.

A fool and his money...
True sound can be affected by the electronic noise generated from computers/memory, but in a dedicated sound device I would expect the important bits to be shielded...

The fun thing about this is sony havnt even identified the potential fools..