MD: end search petition
From: Graham Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 1 June 2000 8:17 Subject: Re: MD: end search petition Yes, how about the ability to be able to adjust manual record levels without having to pause recording first? IMHO, this Sony mis-feature is almost as daft as the end search button... As far as the record-pause before record thing with the Sharp portables - I have a Sharp 701 and I don't find this function out of place with it, in fact it's necessary as you have to set the record levels with the Sharp (no AGC) and it's best to do that before recording (but very nice to have the option to make small changes on the fly). OTOH, with Sony portables and their AGC function I can see where Sony are coming from - for (almost) instant (panic) recording in the field, slot in your favourite disc, hit record and there's no worrying about having to press play again or adjust record levels - you will have an instant (at reasonable levels) recording... Ooops, I just forgot to press 'end search' - my panic recording just erased my previous one:-) GB - Original Message - From: Jonathan Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any other suggestions (serious ones)? Jonathan - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: MDX7900 tel. mute pin
You need a full handsfree car kit (preferably original, as many aftermarket kits don't have the lead) that suits your phone. Then you just connect the car kit's radio mute lead to the deck's tel mute lead, and there you go. Next call that comes in, or that you make, the handsfree kit will ground that connection, thereby enabling the Tel Mute function of your deck. Adios, LarZ --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of W. Zhang Sent: Wednesday, 31 May 2000 2:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:MD: MDX7900 tel. mute pin Hi All, I recently purchased a MDX7900 head unit. it has a telephone mute lead. Apparently when it is connected properly, the unit mutes the volume when there is an incoming cell call. My question is, how do I connect this ? Is there suppose to be a lead from the cell phone that I must use ? I have an Ericsson 618 cell phone if it matters. Thx, Wayne - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: end search petition
Sean Buckingham wrote: I've been researching which portable recorder to buy for ages now. I plan to use it for sampling ambient natural sound (pretension alert?!). I need a unit which has both manual and automatic gain recording, which can also be level-adjusted whilst recording. This rules out all sony machines I think AFAIK, the SOny portables are the only ones with both automatic and manual record level settings. Contrary to what you have heard, the Sonys do have a level adjust whilst (did I spell that right?) recording. There is a switch on the back of the recorder that you can set to high or low mike sensitivity. THis can be switched back and forth without stoping the recording. If it is in automatic record level, the gain is adjusted automatically according to the level source of the sound. The mike sensitivty setting can be changed on the fly to get more range if needed. If it is in manual record level, you have to set the level, check it to see if it is too high, stop it and reset it if it is. The mike sensitivy switch still works the same way and will give you control with out shutting the recording off. -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet? My first web page http://www.tir.com/~liteways - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: end search petition
From: Graham Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 1 June 2000 8:17 Subject: Re: MD: end search petition Yes, how about the ability to be able to adjust manual record levels without having to pause recording first? IMHO, this Sony mis-feature is almost as daft as the end search button... As far as the record-pause before record thing with the Sharp portables - I have a Sharp 701 and I don't find this function out of place with it, in fact it's necessary as you have to set the record levels with the Sharp (no AGC) and it's best to do that before recording (but very nice to have the option to make small changes on the fly). OTOH, with Sony portables and their AGC function I can see where Sony are coming from - for (almost) instant (panic) recording in the field, slot in your favourite disc, hit record and there's no worrying about having to press play again or adjust record levels - you will have an instant (at reasonable levels) recording... Ooops, I just forgot to press 'end search' - my panic recording just erased my previous one:-) GB - Original Message - From: Jonathan Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any other suggestions (serious ones)? Jonathan - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Subject: Re: microphone
Roger Preston wrote: From: "J. Coon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to try your hand at building one for about $10 US you ca try this one http://www.tir.com/~liteways/Mandolin.html#Microphone I have followed the gist of the above and bought two microphone inserts and a right angle plug from the UK based Maplin Radio. I used the cable from a broken pair of headphones to connect from the inserts into the plug - soldering wasn't too difficult once I'd stuck the insert into a lump of bluetack to hold it. The result looks a bit amateurish but works well. Only snag is that one insert has less gain (or the Sharp MD-MT16 has a weaker channel) - will buy another insert to establish which. Proper microphones in the UK seem (to me anyway) to be a bit sparse. Any UK based people advise me otherwise? To avoid having to solder the plug to the cable, I used a cheap set of ear buds. You could also use an old set of headphones. THe object was to cut down on the amount of soldering required of the person making the mike. Poor solder connections can cause problems with static, noise, and low microphone gain. If the mike elements you purchased have short leads, it is possible to overheat them causing damage to the element. That is probably why one of yours is weaker than the other. You have to get the soldered connection hot enough to melt the solder and flow nicely on the terminal without overheating the capsule. With long leads this isn't too hard. WIth short leads, you may have to hold the lead with a pair of forceps between the solder connection and the capsule, to act as a heat sink while (or is is whilst? I can never get that right.) you solder the wires. be sure the terminal that is connected to the shell of the mike element is the one that is connected to the sleeve of the miniplug, and the shield of the wire you are using. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Problems at Best Buy
Jonathan Davis misunderstood my post and wrote, | Okay, I'm a little lost on this. Very lost, Jonathan. | So you're saying that I could use the | store credit to buy, say, a VCR. Then exchange the VCR for a DVD player | a few days later (just to be safe). Then I could get a refund on my DVD | player. Right? Wrong, completely wrong. That's what Jim Coon said, and my post, which you quoted in yours and to which you were apparently responding -- you even edited my quote from Jim out of it, so I have to conclude that you were replying only to my text and not to his -- said just the opposite. | Does the second exchange receipt NOT show the credit? Of course it does. That's what I was saying. You can't get a cash refund if you return something you bought with a lemon credit, and I even said ex- plicitly that your receipt would show that. The very first sentence that you quoted from me was this (Jim had said that if I used the lemon credit for a pile of CDs I could have brought them back unopened the next day and asked for a cash refund): I could have asked, but I would not have received, because my receipt for the first batch of CDs would have shown that I had used a lemon credit to pay for them. There it is: I'd already said that there would be no cash refund for items paid for with a lemon credit. Here's what I said: if, when I used the lemon credit, the item or items I bought added up to more than the credit and I had to pay the difference in cash or with a credit card, and I returned something, then I could get a cash or credit-card refund UP TO the amount of cash or charge I had added. Say I use a $200 lemon credit and add $2 in cash to buy $202 worth of mer- chandise. Then within thirty days I change my mind about a $22 item in the pile and return it. I can exchange it for $20.50 of merchandise and get a $1.50 cash refund; I can exchange it for $25 worth and pay $3 more in cash or on a credit card. But if I want to exchange it for $19 worth, I have to buy something more to bring the new purchase up to at least $20 to cover the lemon credit or forfeit $1 of the lemon credit. In other words, my cash refund is limited to the cash I added. | I want a refund because I want a new MD player! You won't get one unless you get a time machine and return the 510 within thirty days after you bought it. However, there might be other things Best Buy sells that you could use. Consider that if the 510 were working and you sold it used after all this time, you'd get a lot less than the lemon credit value for it, so it's not that bad a deal. Since my earlier post, another member of MD-L has said that, since Best Buy still carries Sony products, they could special-order a JE530 (or whatever current model you want); I don't know about that first-hand and had not heard of it when I posted before, so if you can arrange that, that's certainly the better way to go. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: aiwa stuff again
AFAIK, the SOny portables are the only ones with both automatic and manual record level settings. Contrary to what you have heard, the Sonys do have a level adjust whilst (did I spell that right?) recording. Sorry, I meant to say "level adjust without having to pause first".. I'm fairly positive the Aiwa's can be manually adjusted whilst recording, and they have AGC as well. (i hope!) SeanB - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] end Sean Buckingham Media Services Brunel University, UK * (Ext)2209 * (Direct) 0208 891 8264 * (e-1)[EMAIL PROTECTED] * (e-2)[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: AGC availability (was end search petition)
Jim Coon wrote, | AFAIK, the Sony portables are the only ones with both automatic and | manual record level settings. Aiwas also have both, and you don't have to pause to change the manual level. You have to pause to switch between manual and automatic, but once you're in manual, you can change the level while recording proceeds. The selection sticks when you stop recording and even when you eject the disc: Sony porta- bles -- at least the models I know about -- revert to automatic gain control when you stop recording. | There is a switch on the back of the recorder that you can | set to high or low mike sensitivity. The Aiwa AM-F70 has that as well. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Sony MZ-R90 seems a little noisy
Hi there all, I was wondering if anybody knew anything about the SONY MZ-R90 portable. I've been wanting a minidisc for AGES, literally YEARS. And a few weeks ago I finally took the plunge, I'd been so impressed by the minidiscs that a few of my friends had got, and some of them didn't really even USE THEM! Ever since I got mine I've been recording off stuff like nobodys buisness. Great. But... The player seems REALLY noisy, having not only a loud seek noise (which is fine and to be expected), but it also makes a horrible grinding noise intermittantly. I've tried using SONY 80min Shock Absorbing discs but it's definately the player. Does anybody own one of these? Is it normal? I'm a bit dissapointed by the seek time being so slow but that's ok considering the battery life and size, but this noise seems far too loud. When playing music very quietly through my amp late at night as i fall asleep the noise is sooo irritating. Ah I may have to take it back i think, can anyone help out? Thanks Panix ps. i've read the VERY thorough comparisons and reviews on the web, but no mention of noise levels from the machine. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: end search petition
I must have missed the first mention of an End Search petition to Sony, but please sign me up. I would strongly recommend that it leave out all other issues, and stick to End Search only, as the others will dilute the message. End Search needs to stand out alone as the greatest abomination of all the Sony portables, and the point should be very clear. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Sony MZ-R90 seems a little noisy
* Lee Parry [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 01 Jun 2000 |The player seems REALLY noisy, having not only a loud seek noise (which | is fine and to be expected), but it also makes a horrible grinding noise | intermittantly. I've tried using SONY 80min Shock Absorbing discs but it's | definately the player. Yes, it does that. Yes, it is normal. The R90 runs through a cycle of winding up the motor, reading ~30 seconds worth of data from the disc, winding down the motor to a lower power state, and playing back from the buffer. This cycle repeats itself every 30 seconds or so. The "grinding" noise you hear is the motor speeding up. -- Rat [EMAIL PROTECTED]\ Happy Fun Ball contains a liquid core, Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ which, if exposed due to rupture, should PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ not be touched, inhaled, or looked at. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Fw: Problems at Best Buy
Paul Ratazzi wrote: 45 minutes later, after being escorted like a criminal through the checkout line, I was back down to the car install bay. This is why my first purchase from Best Buys (sic) is also my last. Impulse bought a MD player for the wifey. After waiting for the greasy, spike-haired kid to get through chatting with his friends, he deigned to give me enough time to retrieve the (wrong) box from the locked cabinet. We were escorted from one end of the store to the other to the checkout line. I never got to touch the box. Only at the cash register when the price rung up wrong did I know that he'd picked out the wrong box. So then we wait, holding up the line, while this clown again breaks off from his chatting long enough to get the correct unit. We then were escorted out of the store. Never again! I had wal-mart try the same stunt a few days later when I went to buy a Mavica digital camera. This time I demanded to see the store manager. After working through several underlings, I finally got to talk to someone who claimed to be the store manager. I asked this guy whether he had ever had even the remotest suspicion of my having stolen anything. Of course not. I told him that I refused to be tarred by the sins of my (non) brothers and that since I had never come under suspicion, that I would either take my camera of the shelf and put it in my cart or I'd manage to live without Wal-mart products. I left empty-handed. In this little podunk town, it's almost impossible to completely boycott wallyworld but I'm coming as close as possible. What really pisses me about this is that I had a nice chat awhile back with the head of security for our wallyworld store while we were both waiting in court to prosecute bad check writers. He told me that they estimate that over 90% of their shrinkage (aka theft) is caused by employees. I suspect that this figure is not only accurate but that it also applies to other chain stores. Doesn't leave much room for use customers to steal, now does it? I've become a hard-ass on this topic. I tolerated being watched by CCTV. I tolerated the anti-theft tags and the occasional false alarm. I'll be damned if I'll tolerate being escorted through a store like a common shoplifter in order to make a purchase. Long ago I quit shopping Circuit City because they pulled similar crap in making one go to "customer pickup" to get even the smallest item. Apparently many people got pissed cuz our local store no longer does that except for major items. I shop there but I don't buy :-) Thank God for the Internet. I urge everyone on this list to become a hardass too. If we keep tolerating this kind of treatment, pretty soon we'll have to be handcuffed to a store employee (whose pockets will be full of merchandise) in order to buy a pack of minidiscs. Just say NO to this kind of crap. I feel better now. I also learned some things along the way: 1. Avoid Best Buy whenever possible - they are evil; 2. Don't let someone you don't know do stuff to a car you care about - even if it is 'free'; Bingo. Who cares more about your property - you or some kid just putting in his hours. John -- John De Armond [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://personal.bellsouth.net/~johngd/ Neon John's Custom Neon Cleveland, TN "Bendin' Glass 'n Passin' Gas" - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: MDX7900 tel. mute pin
You need a full handsfree car kit (preferably original, as many aftermarket kits don't have the lead) that suits your phone. Then you just connect the car kit's radio mute lead to the deck's tel mute lead, and there you go. Next call that comes in, or that you make, the handsfree kit will ground that connection, thereby enabling the Tel Mute function of your deck. Ah, so when a call comes in, the tel mute lead is grounded ? Maybe I can rig something up myself. I already have a handsfree kit so buying a full handsfree car kit is not an option for me. thx, Wayne - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Oy, vey
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MD: drops outs
HI people, did a recording from CD to MD last night, and when I took a listen to it today morning , it seems there were drop outs almost every songs.. I check the CD it's alright, checked the hi-fi, it's good. guess it's the MD?? any ideas what might be wrong?? thks beforehand! kurt. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Classical Music: CD vs. MD
I have recently decided to purchase some pieces of Classical music. I want excellent sound, but I think I've heard that Classical is more subject to the differences between CD and MD than other sorts of music. Is that true? Are the differences noticeable in mid-quality headphones? Maybe I should just go CD -- but I so love MD, and buy other music (what I can, of course) on MD. Advise me! Jonathan C. R. Davis - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Re: end search petition
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Re: MD: Re: end search petition
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