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Originally Posted by Quoth
Minidisc is Atrac, not lossless and poorer than 256k mp3. MP3 and other digital compressions vary in quality according to encoder quality and bit rate.
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And there are several incarnations of the ATRAC (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding) encoders, with different degrees of bitwise reduction. DAT uses ATRAC but drops fewer bits than MiniDisc. IIRC, MiniDisc uses 5:1 reduction while DAT uses 4:1 reduction.