on 9/24/01 3:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of a brand of cable I can buy that has a 'narrow'
end? I need to know a brand, because I can't eyeball cable ends when
buying from the web or mail order.
Try this
I just recently received a new Sony JB940. Does anyone happen to know if TOC
cloning is possible with this unit? I have a disc I've been sitting on for a
while that I accidentally deleted a live track from, and I'm hoping to be
able to resurrect it.
on 8/31/01 12:57 AM, Shawn Lin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my personal observations, MD is only a dying format in North
America.
Is it really any wonder? When was the last time you could find a decent
selection of MD equipment?
I currently have a Kenwood MD unit in my car. And I'd love
on 7/24/01 9:49 AM, heddy Boubaker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking for a very good mic, mainly to record live music, to use with my
brand new MD recorder. I tested many but with no great success but from
reading
technical specs the MS957 seems to be a very good one for my needs (the
on 5/10/01 12:40 PM, James Jarvie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone please explain (in simple terms) what
Firewire is?
Hopefully I can make this simple.
Firewire is Apple's name for a connection technology that was designed to
replace SCSI. Firewire is also known as iLink (Sony's
on 5/8/01 12:25 PM, Francisco J. Huerta at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, but that is just incorrect. If you mean incompatible with a few
PC-only applications, yes.
With a few PC apps? Sorry, but I could only find Macromedia and some Office
stuff. Our database won't run on Apple
on 5/8/01 11:41 PM, Chad Gombosi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well the wierd thing here is that you must have been buying these G3s when
they were rather old because there has never been a G3 with a list price of
less than $1000 US from Apple, this price would have had to have been from a
on 5/9/01 7:50 PM, Tk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you did it that route, to make it a better purchase... you can also buy
an Oxford911 bridge based Firewire enclosure put the old drive in. So
you'll have a nice external storage and still saved some extra bucks on top
of what apple is
on 4/17/01 12:33 AM, Matt Wall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sorry again about this stupid e-mail reader, i hate outhouse express anyway
here is the original e-mail i tried to send
Go to Preferences.
Click on the Compose tab.
Select Plain Text from the Mail Format popup menu.
Click the OK
FYI...
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From: "Wong, Ed" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:51:07 -0400
To: "'Ed Heckman'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Plugs, humans and grounds
I cant post to the MD list from this address - feel free to repost
why some plugs are polarized (one
on 3/15/01 2:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My question was, because i have a r55 and an r90, does LP2 stereo sound better
or is it comparable to standard mono? and is the r900 really better than the
r90?
Here's part of a message I sent just after I got my R900 on the
I was just checking out the specs on the Sony Clie 700 (their version of the
Palm) that's supposed to be released on April 7th. On the specs page I found
a VERY interesting little piece of text, "ATRAC3". Does anyone here read
Japanese? Can you explain what this means?
Here's the link:
At 2/26/01 5:40 AM, Simon Mackay wrote:
Does anyone know whether the Sony MDLP-capable MD Walkmans can support
"segue-shuffle" where, if a MiniDisc (usually a home-brew
personal-favourites compilation MD) is edited with no silence gap between
tracks, the next track starts coming through as soon
At 2/4/01 3:15 PM, John Small wrote:
Since both are available (R50 at $250, R90 at $220) is there one reason to
prefer one model over the other? Beyond the R90 issue is there some
reason to
prefer the R900 over either the R50 or R90, aside from the LP feature? These
are the only three
At 1/8/01 11:28 PM, J. Coon wrote:
No, I haven't listened to it at all. It is just that when I record
something, I want it to be very close the original. MD is very close
to CD quality. However, from the reports of people that have posted
their experiance to the list, they can tell a
At 1/3/01 1:09 PM, Ken Clinger wrote:
My home MD deck allows for titling via a PS/2 compatible keyboard. Since
I have a Mac, I'm not sure what this actually means. Will any keyboard
that works with a Windows computer work with my MD deck?
If you have a Mac with a USB port, buy the Microsoft
At 12/20/00 4:04 PM, zaheerm wrote:
I'm looking at buying an Aiwa FM-80 sometime this week. Some reviews on the
Net indicate its a great MD recorder, but others report problems. I know
that in terms of features its much more feature packed than the Sony MZR70,
but at a similar price is it worth
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At 12/8/00 8:27 AM, J. Coon wrote:
yes, but
At 12/1/00 12:06 PM, Yaniv Eyny wrote:
I looked at the converter it is $30 at minidisco.com. I thought maybe I
should just get an American battery charger (wall wart(. I don't have it
here but it is probably the standard gum pack battery. Does anyone know
where I can get the charger and
At 11/28/00 8:24 PM, Yaniv Eyny wrote:
I just got the Sony 900 Player from Japan. The charger expects 100 v.
Will this damage the battery? Is it worth getting a converter?
Yes, get a converter. Pushing 120 volts through the wall wart may not
kill anything immediately, but it WILL cause
At 11/2/00 3:52 AM, Arto Leskinen increased the world's knowledge by
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Does any of the portable md-players have play one song and stop
operation? No repeat etc. Does any of them have programming?
The new Sony MZ-R900, the Aiwa F70 and F/C80 do. Older Sony models don't,
although I
At 10/17/00 3:06 PM, matthew c. mead increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
I'm going to Paris over thanksgiving week, and I plan on taking
my Sharp 722 and some music. I'm curious if anyone has used the
various brands of noise cancelling headphones. If so, which ones
seem to work well,
At 10/13/00 2:00 PM, David W. Tamkin increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
The Sharp 831 is supposed to have it, as is the Sony R90, perhaps the R900.
As a general guide, I'd say check the specs on models that have come out
since the beginning of 1999.
The R900 does have digital gain
At 9/24/00 5:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
The model number is BC-7HT.
Thanks for the lead. I bought a charger plus a spare battery from Planet
Minidisc about 2 weeks ago. This let me use the two rechargeables to
record all the sessions I was in at a
At 9/29/00 5:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
I'm new to the list. I'm a photographer who wishes to purchase a MD
portable recorder. I plan to record live audio to accompany my photos.
I'm very, very impressed with the new Sony MZ-R900. It will meet all of
Last night I spent a couple of hours checking out the sound quality on my
R900 and comparing it to my R50. To do this, I recorded "The throne room
and end title" from the Star Wars suite digitally to a disc on the R50,
then moved the disc to the R900 and recorded it again using standard
Ok, this one is for you other R900 owners out there.
Have you noticed anything funky about recharging the R900? I don't mean
needing to push the button to start charging, although that's funky
enough. I'm referring to the fact that it doesn't seem to take a full
charge without having to hit
At 9/21/00 6:36 PM, David W. Tamkin increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
What I'm wondering is whether, if you turn manual end search off (which I
guess can be seen as turning automatic end searching on), does the old
shortcut to track 1 on Sony portables (END SEARCH, PLAY, STOP, PLAY
At 9/22/00 3:57 PM, David W. Tamkin increased the world's knowledge by
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H I also noticed that the recorder remembers the last recording mode used.
H Last night I recorded a rehearsal using LP2. Now, even if I change the
H disc, it retains the LP2 mode. I suspect this is also true of
At 9/22/00 6:42 PM, PrinceGaz increased the world's knowledge by typing:
I wonder whether other things may be similarly held whilst "power
is unavailable", such as the recording mode, manual record level,
display choice (title, time played, disc remaining etc), or are
they not classed as "setup
I just received my new R900 today. Yippee!
Now for some quick thoughts on it.
At 9/18/00 3:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
I think the blue looks nice. A little more green in it than the blue on the
R-50. Slightly irridescent.
Definitely. I would call
At 9/21/00 4:44 PM, PrinceGaz increased the world's knowledge by typing:
So am I correct in assuming that when set to auto end search, the
only use of that button is to move the play position to the end of
the disc? Nice to have, yes, but a bit OTT for a dedicated key?
The End Search button
At 9/18/00 3:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
I wish Sony had not dropped the disc capacity and play
location meter that is on the R-50. That was handy, but was dropped on the
R-90 (R-55?). Perhaps I was the only one who used it.
You aren't the only one
At 9/17/00 5:55 AM, HK Hill increased the world's knowledge by typing:
And I promise
not to use it on the cigarette adapter again.
I'm glad to hear that your unit isn't dead. :-)
Most adapters that plug into the cigarette lighter have a fuse in them.
Have you checked it to make sure it's OK?
At 9/16/00 7:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
Overall, I am very pleased with the R-900. I got a blue one.
Cool! I also ordered the blue one. (Supposedly it will ship this Monday.)
How does it look? I wonder which one will be the most popular.
I haven't
At 9/14/00 4:43 PM, HK Hill increased the world's knowledge by typing:
I took my Aiwa AM-F5 on a road trip, using a 4.5V cigarette lighter
adapter(pretty sure it's 4.5). On day 3, the unit stopped working--tried
recharging battery, but it wouldn't power up at all. I've had the unit for a
couple
At 9/10/00 9:12 PM, Graham Baker increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
It seems that nothing can get this through to the arrogant Sony Corp.
The dismal response to our end search petition shows just how much they
care...
Well, guess what!?! According to http://www.minidisc.org the new
At 8/21/00 2:13 AM, las increased the world's knowledge by typing:
Again you can't use 2000 technology to discredit 1960+ state of the art.
[snip]
Things get easier all of the time. But that doesn't mean that recording an
album to tape was so difficult that it couldn't be done by the average
At 8/20/00 8:56 PM, las increased the world's knowledge by typing:
But there were records around. All they had to do was buy the record which
was cheaper than the prerecorded tape to begin with and make a copy of the
record. This is exactly the analogy that you are making between the CD and
At 8/17/00 9:50 AM, Leon increased the world's knowledge by typing:
Sony really is going all out this time, it seems. To the extent that they're
getting the news out on a week when so many people are on holiday in Japan.
Where did you find this info?
Did they get rid of End Search? (I doubt
At 8/15/00 4:53 PM, David W. Tamkin increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
it's a feature of certain new units that will adjust the volume level of a
track after it's been recorded.
That sounds good. Does this only work on the unit doing the scaling, any
unit with this feature, or any
If you own an Aiwa F80 or C80, could you check how well the recording
head (the small white plastic piece in the lid) clears the minidisc slot
when your recorder is open?
I just get mine back from the repair shop after having this part fixed.
(I bought it 5 weeks ago and they've had it for
At 8/7/00 2:11 AM, las increased the world's knowledge by typing:
As some one stated before, Sony should come out with a very basic unit.
No editing features
or they should be hidden under a flap labeled "for advanced users only".
They need the equivalent of the simple cassette deck for many
At 8/7/00 11:58 AM, las increased the world's knowledge by typing:
So what would you give as the explanation that the MD is so popular in
Japan??
I'm no expert on Japan, so this is only an educated guess. That said,
it's my understanding that Japan is a much more technology oriented
society
At 5/25/00 7:38 PM, Stainless Steel Rat increased the world's knowledge
by typing:
Never was. For its day it was the smallest, but that is the extent of its
superiority. If you want something in the same general class, the
MZ-R90/91 is superior in every respect.
That's BS. Here's a list of
At 5/26/00 3:33 PM, Stainless Steel Rat increased the world's knowledge
by typing:
* Ed Heckman [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 26 May 2000
| -- The R50 can be charged while playing or recording. The R90 cannot.
Given the R50's woefully short battery life, it needs this. The R90's NiMH
cell
At 5/17/00 10:20 AM, Richard Wright increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
I'm thinking of developing a USB to S/PDIF optical interface for the PC
(and possibly the Mac if it's not too difficult!) and I just wanted to see
what the level of interest would be, and how much people would be
At 4/27/00 9:10 PM, Austin Wallender increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
What other head units are people looking at besides the Sony ones?
I recently installed a Kenwood KMD-870R. (It's last years 44W x 4 unit.)
I've been really happy with it. It doesn't look like it belongs in a
At 3/28/00 11:35 AM, Richard Wright increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
All you people who bought MZ-R90s and 91s will be truly jealous. And
someone at Sony seems to be reading this list regularly, as everything
everyone wants has been incorporated into the design! Marvellous :-)
Why
At 3/28/00 3:17 PM, Richard Wright increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
Looks great, I guess the release date will be this saturday (April 1).
Yeah, that's right - it says so on the webpage - I'll be going over there
on Saturday to pick one up (NOT!) :-)
Did you notice the part number
A few weeks ago I mentioned that I thought it would be great if sound
systems went to FireWire to interconnect the components. Well, last night
I was reading the March 2000 issue of Popular Science while I was at the
doctor's office. According to that issue, an extension of the FireWire
At 3/11/00 3:37 PM, Matt Wall increased the world's knowledge by typing:
Different extensions/specs for firewire have been trying to get out there
for some time now, i know it's been well over a year now. The spec is not
done an they dont expect the final to be done for quite a long time.
If
At 3/2/00 6:15 AM, PrinceGaz increased the world's knowledge by typing:
In addition all non-Sony units lack a feature to
manually set the recording position after the already used part :-)
I don't know about decks, but you're absolutely right about the
portables. Non-Sony units don't have
At 3/2/00 10:46 AM, Ralph Smeets increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
I'm under the impression that you haven't met PrinzeGaz yet... He's our
'provoker'. I mean, he just likes discussion to much ;-)
I guess not. I noticed his smiley, but I just had to get that off my
chest anyway.
Greetings,
I need to order some 80 minute discs. Unfortunately, they're pretty hard
to find, especially at decent prices. I've found some at
www.minidiscmall.com, but their policies have me a little worried. Has
anyone bought anything from them? Are they OK? If not, can you recommend
At 3/2/00 4:26 PM, David W. Tamkin increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
| -- the ability to start playing from the beginning without having
| to use the jog dial
You can open and reclose the clamshell, or you can press END SEARCH, PLAY,
STOP, PLAY.
Yep, you guys are right. I
At 3/1/00 4:31 AM, Guy Churchill increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
I may not have made it perfectly clear, but I was referring to
portable recorders NOT home decks (which I do prefer to see PS/2 port or
some type of PC comms link - USB preferred).
Didn't I recently see something
Now that I know that I can't avoid the Sony R50's major drawback, I need
to know about possible replacements.
One of the things I love about the R50 is how easy it makes editing stuff
that's on the disc. Setting track marks, erasing tracks, moving tracks
and setting titles are all dead
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