Generational losses
CD->Minidisc->Minidisc->Minidisc was fine
I thought that SCMS was supposed to prevent that?
CD->Minidisc->DCC->Minidisc sounded pretty ropey really fast.
Given the above, are we talking digital or analog copies? If digital, well done. If analog, I'm not surprised that there would be larger generational losses when alternating encoding schemes (ATRAC for MD, PASC for DCC).
But in fairness, who the hell ever had DCC and Minidisc?
Flash gits? ;-)
Back in the day I went all-in on MiniDisc and I don't think I ever saw a DCC "in the wild". Or anyone else with MiniDiscs for that matter....