RE: MD: Fw: Fw: Transferring MD to CD

2000-04-04 Thread Tony Antoniou


Fair points. I guess you've had better luck with the room acoustics than I
have. And I agree with the recording at conservative levels. I do exactly
the same, to avoid nasty surprise clipping.

Besides, if I do make a mess of the editing, that's what the Undo feature is
for 3#-)

Adios,
LarZ

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I often get the mix just right direct from live source to MD, so I don't
need to adjust the EQ much if at all. All that usually needs to be done is
to boost the volume. I deliberately record low so that if I get sudden
dynamics occurring on stage they don't get clipped. It's also nice to run
off a virtually untouched copy of the original onto CD as a WAV file before
I do any production editing because that means I have a backup I can restore
if I make a mess of the editing. It's far easier to recover 74 mins from a
CD in about 5 mins than to re-record the MD to the hard disc again.


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Re: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light!

2000-04-04 Thread Shawn R. Lin


Matt White wrote:
 
 Huh?  Companies already spend far more on MiniDisc than they do on
 MP3.  There really isn't all that much MP3 stuff out there,
 yet.  Meanwhile Sony and Sharp and friends seem to keep pumping out new MD
 units of varying types.

You must live in a metropolitan area!
Where I live, we only have two big electronics stores that EVERYONE
shops at for electronics: Best Buy and Circuit City.  In both places,
sadly, MD has come and gone.
Best Buy had MD a long time ago, since it came out.  I remember seeing
the cool MDS-501 there back in the early 90's.  However, they only ever
had 1 or 2 units.  They DID however, have a prerecorded MD stand, which
went away sometime in '94 or so.  Then in 1998, I started getting
excited because the MDS-JE520/JE320/R30/R50, several minisystems, and a
whole slew of portables showed up.  MD got its own aisle, and the
prerecorded MDs came back, a whole ton of MD blanks from different
companies were offered, and MD got its own endcap with a caveman video. 
Today, there is the JE330 and the one with the CD/MD combo deck, MZ-R70,
Sharp MD-MT15, a couple play-only portables, and a few blanks.  The rest
of the aisle is filled with at least 4 or 5 different audio
CD-recorders, and there are at least 5 MP3 players where MD players used
to be.  The endcap is still there, but I didn't look to see if they
changed it to advertise CD recorders or not.  It looks much less
exciting for MD at Best Buy now, and I find it a little disappointing.
As for Circuit City, I HEARD that other cities actually had Aiwa and
Sony portables.  None ever showed up at the local one here.  Circuit
City had the MDS-JB920 for a little while in 1998, but now they don't
have MD equipment at all.  They do, however, have CD recorders.

It's nice to see the price of MD blanks has dropped over the years, but
it looks like retailer interest has dropped as well, at least here,
where I think I am a lone MD user.

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Re: MD: coax v. toslink

2000-04-04 Thread Ralph Smeets


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Comparing coaxial and Toslink, there is actually a measurable
 difference between what you get at the other end of the line.  The
 archives of rec.audio.pro have discussions of this phenomenon, though
 it's been a number of years since I've kept up with this subject.
 
 The issue is "transport jitter", where the timing between the bits
 varies by some amount (in the range of 5 to 500 picoseconds, if memory
 serves).  The bits received are in fact the same as those that were
 transmitted, so if you are transporting the bits with the intention of
 storing them (i.e., on a CD or an MD) it doesn't make a difference what
 you use.  However, when you feed these timing variations into a D/A
 converter, it can affect the output waveforms.
 
 Inside single-box setups, clocking tends to be fairly jitter
 resistant.  It can be a bigger issue if you put together systems with
 separate transport and D/A sections (e.g., a home theatre surround
 decoder fed by DVD).  It's also an issue for pro audio setups where
 they have to transport audio around the studio or remote recording
 location for monitoring.  There may have been advances in the past few
 years that reduce such effects; I'm not sure.
 
 Anyhow, Toslink tends to exhibit greater amounts of jitter than coax or
 other fiber optic media.  If you don't hear a difference, don't let it
 bother you.
 
 Romain Kang Siemens Info/Comm Products, San Jose RD
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  formerly Pyramid Technology Corporation

Note that if you buffer the signal, jitter is almost eliminated!

Cheers,
Ralph

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Re: MD: coax v. toslink

2000-04-04 Thread Ralph Smeets


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Romain Kang)  on Mon, 03 Apr 2000
 | Comparing coaxial and Toslink, there is actually a measurable
 | difference between what you get at the other end of the line.  The
 | archives of rec.audio.pro have discussions of this phenomenon, though
 | it's been a number of years since I've kept up with this subject.
 
 If it were an analog signal, it would matter.  But whether a "1" has an
 intensity of X or several times X does not change its value one bit :).
 
 | The issue is "transport jitter", where the timing between the bits
 | varies by some amount (in the range of 5 to 500 picoseconds, if memory
 | serves).
 
 Which is compensated by the error correction inherent in the protocol and
 the data buffering in the receiver.  A string of 16 bits is a string of 16
 bits, period.
 
 In other words, the "audiophiles" are hearing what they want to hear, not
 what is really getting to their ears.

Sorry "Rat", but you're wrong.

I agree that bits are bits. But coax and TosLink don't do error-correction since
the S/PDIF protocol doesn't do error-correction.

I agree that for recording, it doesn't matter that there is jitter.

But before we go any further, I think it's time to explain 'what is jitter'.

Jitter is an effect that is caused by the fact that the interval between the
samples varies a little. This variation isn't constant. Ie, consider a series of
samples: T1, T2, T3 and T4. Let's say they where recorded at 0, 1, 2 and 3
seconds. The value of T1, T2, T3 and T4 equals 1, -1, 1, -1. Ie:
 1 @  0.0
-1 @  1.0
 1 @  2.0
-1 @  3.0

So lets play them back. But with some jitter introduced of -0.1 +0.1 +0.1 -0.1.
Thus,
 1 @ -0.1
-1 @  1.1
 1 @  2.1
-1 @  2.9

I think you agree that this series of bits represents another waveform. That's
what we call jitter!


Cheers,
Ralph
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Re: MD: MZ-R110PDA

2000-04-04 Thread Ralph Smeets


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Hi Kyle,
 
 Thanks for the note, hope you don't mind if I cc MD-L too.
 
 You write:
 
 Beautiful Photoshop work, they look great! Please send the page to SONY so
 hopefully they will make one, or get the person who mocked it up a job at
 SONY. If they do I would never have to go home again, everything I need
 would be in that tiny little box.
 
 That was Shawn Lin's fantasy, he does great work. Apparently
 www.pdabuzz.com picked up on our posting and put it in their news
 section! I heard from someone else that Sony has scheduled a meeting
 tomorrow to discuss such a product. Can't help wondering if I'm being
 subject to an April Fools joke myself, I mean this idea has to have
 crossed a few minds at Sony already.
 
 Rick

Well,

3Com (Palm) already licensed the memory stick technology of Sony.
Maybee Sony is going to license the Palm-OS?


Cheers,
Ralph - Palm III owner.

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MD: Stereo Review's Sound Vision magazine

2000-04-04 Thread Simmons, Ross


Has any one seen the latest Stereo Review's Sound  Vision magazine review
of a Dell computer system and it's sound card. It's a pretty scathing review
of computer sound cards and I'm would like to hear some opinions about the
review. Can you really do accurate copying of music digitally with a
computer?.

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MD: Memory Stick Walkman

2000-04-04 Thread Chris Masters


How long has this Memory Stick Walkman (NW-MS7) been out? (or isn't it out
yet?). I noticed it uses Atrac3 and you get 80 min of audio on the 64meg
memory stick. It also looks like the MagicGate media is different to the
normal Memory Sticks in that it has copyright protection.

Cheers

Chris

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RE: MD: coax v. toslink

2000-04-04 Thread Simon Barnes


Ralphie explained jitter:

 So lets play them back. But with some jitter introduced 
 of -0.1 +0.1 +0.1 -0.1.
 Thus,

This is a useful exposition, but in practice, what you may get is:

  1 @ -0.0001
 -1 @  1.0001
  1 @  2.1
 -1 @  2.9

the question is, does this make any difference ? These jitters are measured
in picoseconds. There are 22 675 737 picoseconds between samples at 44.1
kHz.

 I think you agree that this series of bits represents 
 another waveform. 

In the digital domain, it is easy to measure the jitter with suitable
equipment. Is there ANYTHING (other than a golden ear) that can measure a
difference in the analog output from the D/A as a result of this jitter,
even if it isn't reclocked ?

simon   
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Re: MD: coax v. toslink

2000-04-04 Thread Ralph Smeets


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Ralphie explained jitter:
 
  So lets play them back. But with some jitter introduced
  of -0.1 +0.1 +0.1 -0.1.
  Thus,
 
 This is a useful exposition, but in practice, what you may get is:
 
   1 @ -0.0001
  -1 @  1.0001
   1 @  2.1
  -1 @  2.9
 
 the question is, does this make any difference ? These jitters are measured
 in picoseconds. There are 22 675 737 picoseconds between samples at 44.1
 kHz.

Sorry simon, but there are 2 S/PDIF frames of 32 bits in each sample Ie,

22 675 737 / 64 = 354.3 ns per sample...

Hmm, I agree, 1 ps of jitter is probably un-noticable.
 
  I think you agree that this series of bits represents
  another waveform.
 
 In the digital domain, it is easy to measure the jitter with suitable
 equipment. Is there ANYTHING (other than a golden ear) that can measure a
 difference in the analog output from the D/A as a result of this jitter,
 even if it isn't reclocked ?

I'll try see if I can come up with two FFTs to compare It'll take me
some time, probalby the time of my boss Hmmm... Maybee that's not a 
very bright idea

Cheers,
Ralph - Trying to spend less time on md-l and more on ST
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Re: MD: Memory Stick Walkman

2000-04-04 Thread Leon


The NW-MS7 press release gave a launch date of December 21, 1999. It was
announced on the same day as those three Vaio peripherals.

The MagicGate sticks can be used like normal sticks in any other equipments,
but the walkman will only accept MagicGate sticks.

Now, Sony says ATRAC3 compression gives MD-like quality. And they said MD
gives CD-like quality. Notice the difference? :)  In case you're a Mac
user... the software that comes bundled with the walkman is Windows only.

Leon

 How long has this Memory Stick Walkman (NW-MS7) been out? (or isn't it out
 yet?). I noticed it uses Atrac3 and you get 80 min of audio on the 64meg
 memory stick. It also looks like the MagicGate media is different to the
 normal Memory Sticks in that it has copyright protection.
 
 Cheers

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Re: MD: md-l-digest V2 #588

2000-04-04 Thread Steven Debski \(Canagen\)


 

  I've got just the  green marker you need!  It's on special too.  Step
 right this way.  Don't mind those technical guys, they don't know what
 the heck they are talking about.. Besides, I can't get them to
 accept any kick backs from my Green Markers For You, Inc.   Now
 those What HiFI guys, those are the ones ya gotta listen to.. damn
 straight.

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What people do not realise about What Hi-Fi is that it is a great
time-saver. You only have to read the adverts. Mind you, that takes longer
than reading the articles, Doh!

Hmmm Bits is bits eh - must be why all CD players sound the same.

Steve

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RE: MD: md-l-digest V2 #587

2000-04-04 Thread Simon Barnes


Steven Debski wrote:

 
 I choose to believe my ears - if one sounds better to you 
 - then use it

If one sounds better, marvel at the suggestibility of the human sensorium.

  Bits are not just bits,

For those of you who believe bits are not just bits, try this: wrap your
computer's hard disc in three layers of aluminium foil to "exclude harmful
electromagnetic radiation* ", and check out how much more smoothly your
programs run, with significantly less errors, and brighter colours too.

simon

* sorry, I think that should have been "reduce read head jitter", or was it

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RE: MD: australia/sydney cheap 60m blanks, mz-r90 released here

2000-04-04 Thread Chris Masters


arghh... I want one... now what can I hock?

Chris

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i went to the sony shop at chatswood,sydney at the weekend. they're having a
moving sale.
they were selling the mz-r90(silver) for $749(right next to the mz-r55 on
sale for $699 down from it's rrp of $749!). none of the other portables were
discounted much either.

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MD: CDs with graphics

2000-04-04 Thread Jim Gray


About 10 or so years ago some CDs on the market had graphics included,
but you needed a special player to see them; it was usually lyrics and
maybe some artwork.  Does anyone know of a Windows CD player program
that would display those graphics?  I still have the Hendrix Smash Hits
and I think it was Van Dyke Parks' Tokyo Rose but have never seen the
graphics on them.



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MD: toslink v. coax

2000-04-04 Thread Jim Gray


Thanks, everyone, who answered my query about toslink v. coax; I figured
it was BS.  The info came from a book by Robert Harley, who I'm told is
"controversial" among audiophiles.  I'm not an audiophile yet, but hope
one day to have the bux to do so.  But no matter how rich I ever get, I
plan not to be stupid enough to spend Eight Thousand Dollars on speaker
cables; that really takes the cake!!




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Re: MD: coax v. toslink

2000-04-04 Thread Stainless Steel Rat


* Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED]  on Tue, 04 Apr 2000
| I agree that bits are bits. But coax and TosLink don't do error-correction
| since the S/PDIF protocol doesn't do error-correction.

I know, and I apologise for misusing the term, because what is going on in
the receiver is not really error correction per se.
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Re: MD: Sharp Bootleg Record Level

2000-04-04 Thread Andrew Hobgood


 I know I can adjust the record level on the fly with my Sharp 831, but I'm 
 not sure what kind of lighting I'll have at the Red Hot Chili Peppers / Foo 
 Fighters concert I will be attending.

Bring a small red light source (a good LED keychain light works great), and
get a decent level during the opening band.  Then, sit back and enjoy the
show.  During postprocessing, you can run it through a compressor to get
fewer transient sound level fluctuations.

 Anyone have any advice on this?  I was thinking 15, but not sure.

I've used shitty mics (I mean, *truly* shitty -- used a set of headphones from
a $5 portable tape deck, but backwards, as a stereo mic -- decent quality, 
belive it or not) in my '702, and find my settings at ~22 or so if I'm in a 
small-to-medium club venue, and within the first 10 rows of people on the 
floor.  On the '702, 15 is the threshold between 'low' and 'high' mic 
sensitivity, so there's a big jump in response.

 I'll try to adjust, but don't want to give myself away...

Don't worry -- once you're into a show, and there's lots of people around,
it's rare for someone to actually pick you out of the crowd.

 This is my first time using the Sharp for a show that I care about.  I 
 always used a Sony before, but got sick of worrying about End Search...

Well, I can't say much for the musical choice (my boots are of techno shows
like Underworld, Orbital, and such), the Sharp should behave quite nicely,
and give you good performance for recording the show.

good luck,

/Andrew

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Re: MD: toslink v. coax

2000-04-04 Thread Richard Wright


At 16:29 03/04/00 -0400, you wrote:

Thanks, everyone, who answered my query about toslink v. coax; I figured
it was BS.  The info came from a book by Robert Harley, who I'm told is
"controversial" among audiophiles.  I'm not an audiophile yet, but hope
one day to have the bux to do so.  But no matter how rich I ever get, I
plan not to be stupid enough to spend Eight Thousand Dollars on speaker
cables; that really takes the cake!!

Totally agree.

As I said before, mains cable every time. 100m for 10 quid :-)

Chrz,

Wrighty


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Re: MD: Memory Stick Walkman

2000-04-04 Thread Mark Derricutt


On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Leon wrote:

 Now, Sony says ATRAC3 compression gives MD-like quality. And they said MD
 gives CD-like quality. Notice the difference? :)  In case you're a Mac
 user... the software that comes bundled with the walkman is Windows only.

I was looking at this yesterday at the ComputerWorld Expo here in New
Zealand, looks quite flash, nice and small, but at a price of NZ$200 for a
80minute memory stick, hell no - I'll stick to my Sharp 722!

Mark

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Re: MD: CDs with graphics

2000-04-04 Thread Magic


From: Jim Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 9:56 PM
Subject: MD: CDs with graphics



 About 10 or so years ago some CDs on the market had graphics included,
 but you needed a special player to see them; it was usually lyrics and
 maybe some artwork.  Does anyone know of a Windows CD player program
 that would display those graphics?  I still have the Hendrix Smash Hits
 and I think it was Van Dyke Parks' Tokyo Rose but have never seen the
 graphics on them.

No, but some CD writer software will let you pull the graphics etc. off onto
the hard disc and you can then open them in Paint Shop Pro.

Magic
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MD: Aiwa AM-C80?

2000-04-04 Thread Travis McDevitt


I just got off the phone with customer support from www.cdeals.com.  I was
trying to buy an Aiwa AM-F70 from them, and they said they were out of
stock, but they recieved this new AM-C80 model just a few days ago, and it
was a replacement for the AM-F70.  It was selling for about $30 less, and I
confirmed that it wasn't the AM-F80.  I told the sales rep that I hadn't
heard of it before, and if she had any information on it.  She asked what I
wanted to know about it, and told me she would call her supplier.  I asked
her if it had a jog dial, the battery life, and if the remote is the same as
the old one. About two hours later I got a call back, and I guess neither of
them were incredably knowledgeable because she told me it had a "40 second
jog".  Oh well.  Almost out of curiousity I ordered it, UPS 3 day select.
She agreed that since she couldn't get any information on it, I could send
it back without being charged a restocking fee if it wasn't what I had
expected.  The way I understood it, the C80 is a new model that is designed
to replace the AM-F70, and it has "equal or better" features.  I guess I'll
let you guys know what it is in three or four days.

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MD: Sony computer + slink question

2000-04-04 Thread Stephen Oetjen


Hi,

I just got a Sony PCV-E302DS Digital Studio computer primarily for its
slink integration ability (and price, since it is pretty old)  I have it
connected to my CDP-CX240 200 disk changer, and MDS-JE630 MD deck.  The
software that came with it works OK for playing disks from either
machine, but is somewhat limited in recording. I would like to grab info
from CDDB or FreeDB, to title the disks/tracks in the changer, and MD
deck.  The sony software allows me to title the disks in the changer
manually, and stores the information locally.  The changer itself will
only store short (~12 character) track names.  The MD Editor software is
fairly flexible.  It will allow you to build a playlist of CD tracks
(from the DVD-rom, or the external changer), or any playable audio files
for output to MD through the optical connection.  It allows you to enter
titles for any of these, but again doesn't use an online DB for
disk/track names, and doesn't seem to use the ID3 info from MP3s
either.  


I read back a little bit in the archives (the search function doesn't
seem to be working, sorry if this has been addressed before), and saw
mention that the S-link port on the DS computers accepts s-link commands
sent to it via serial (I believe it is using com3 or 4)  Is there any
software available that can do the machine control and/or titling from
online DBs?  Alternately, is there software that can insert the info
into the local DB the Sony software uses "md1.db" 


Thanks for any thoughts and information, sorry for the long first post.
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MD: Sony R90/R91: I found one major difference

2000-04-04 Thread Brian Youn


Well, all reports were that the MZ-R91 and R90 were functionally
"identical", but I've found one thing that suggests otherwise:

The VU (level) meter is calibrated differently on the two units.  Read on:

The R90's (at least MY R90, this might not be the case with newer units)
level meter will hit the ninth (and final) bar regularly, while "OVER" is
somewhere to the right of the final bar, making it difficult to measure
whether a recording is going OVER or not.  This is unlike the R55, where 0dB
was between the 8th and 9th bars, and OVER was indicated by the ninth bar
(this was much easier to read).

The 91 (at least my roommate's R91) is calibrated like the R55, where the
8th is about as high as it goes normally, and OVER is indicated by the 9th
bar.

I have compared a number of discs between the two units, and on all of them,
the 9th bar on the R90's meter corresponds to the 8th bar of the R91.

Well, this is a major difference to me, as I have found the R90's VU meter
almost useless in some cases because I can't tell if I'm going OVER or not.
In this sense I would say the R91 is better, but some might not care.
Anyway, just reporting my findings... If anyone with a newer (US model?) R90
can tell me if perhaps this has been changed with the newer releases, I
would like to know. (as in, does the 9th bar on the meter get hit regularly,
or does it almost never get hit? Even at the highest recording level?)

Oh yeah, the R91 I tested is faster to detect NO DISC than my R90 by 2
seconds, but that's really not worth knowing...


--Brian Youn--
The University of Texas at Austin
Electrical and Computer Engineering, 4th Year
Go Lakers!

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MD: MP3 to Optical Out

2000-04-04 Thread Link :-7


Hi List,

I've got another doosey of a question.

I want to record MP3s with my PC onto MD.

I'm using a Midiman Dio 2448.  I want to go optical out into my Sharp 831, 
but am having no luck...

Do I need to convert the MP3 to some type of digital file and then go out?

Any help would be appreciated!

Sincerely,

Mark J. Linkhorst
MD Link
http://www.angelfire.com/md2/MDLink


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RE: MD: australia/sydney cheap 60m blanks, mz-r90 released here

2000-04-04 Thread Wei Han Kurt Wee


that price ya speak about... what currency is it?

:-)



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i went to the sony shop at chatswood,sydney at the weekend. they're having
a
moving sale.
they were selling the mz-r90(silver) for $749(right next to the mz-r55 on
sale for $699 down from it's rrp of $749!). none of the other portables
were
discounted much either.


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MD: Sharp Bootleg Record Level

2000-04-04 Thread Link :-7


Hi List,

I know I can adjust the record level on the fly with my Sharp 831, but I'm 
not sure what kind of lighting I'll have at the Red Hot Chili Peppers / Foo 
Fighters concert I will be attending.

I use Core-Sound Binaural Mics with Bass Filter.  I'll definetly use the 
Bass Filter since this place (Bryce Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pennsylvania) is a 
sardine can.

Anyone have any advice on this?  I was thinking 15, but not sure.

I'll try to adjust, but don't want to give myself away...

This is my first time using the Sharp for a show that I care about.  I 
always used a Sony before, but got sick of worrying about End Search...


Sincerely,

Mark J. Linkhorst
MD Link
http://www.angelfire.com/md2/MDLink


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RE: MD: australia/sydney cheap 60m blanks, mz-r90 released here

2000-04-04 Thread Tony Antoniou


Figure it out dude. He mentions Australia in the subject. That would mean
Australian dollars, wouldn't it?

3#-)

Adios,
LarZ

---  TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums  ---

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that price ya speak about... what currency is it?

:-)



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MD: australia/sydney cheap 60m blanks, mz-r90 released here

2000-04-04 Thread Luke Rayner


i went to the sony shop at chatswood,sydney at the weekend. they're having a 
moving sale.
they were selling the mz-r90(silver) for $749(right next to the mz-r55 on 
sale for $699 down from it's rrp of $749!). none of the other portables were 
discounted much either.

they also had sony 60m blanks for $3AUD each. the other blanks were pretty 
much normal price, discounted maybe 10-15%. 74es for $10.[a while ago i 
posted about the 74es being sold cheaply at a duty free store in sydney, but 
i was wrong. they were $9 duty free and $11 normal, i think. which doesnt 
make them good value after all.]

can anybody hear the difference between the 74es blanks and any other disc?
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