high for the younger market, while audiophiles rejected MD and DCC because they felt the lossy compression degraded the audio quality too much.

Technology

Magneto-resistive stationary heads

Unlike helical scan systems such as DAT or VHS, the head is stationary and the tape moves in linear direction relative to the head. Like analog audio tapes, the heads use half of the tape width in each direction. There are nine tracks per side: eight tracks for

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