Re: MD: JE520 transport mech repairs?
--- "J. C. R. Davis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope it WAS the 80 minute MDs that did this. I am about to petition Best Buy to special order a JE520 as a replacement to my junked out JE510, and I would like to think that it will last more than a mere 13 months! I'm sure it will. There don't seem to be an awful lot of complaints about the JE5x0 series around* (unlike, say, the Sharp 7xx portables - though I own a 702 and it's a lot less trouble than the Sony deck!), which suggests that I've got a lemon (or I've *turned* it into a lemon). (* Excepting the micro-switch problem with the 500/510s). It was ill-starred from the off... I got a deck chiefly for MD-MD dubbing, easier labelling and to make digital copies with a coax input (my old Marantz has an optical out, but is prone to skipping), but as soon as I hooked up the 520 to my Copland CDP I encountered a terrible earth loop hum (not the Sony's fault, it should be said; only a minor irritation - doesn't affect the integrity of digital copies). Soon after I discovered that the analogue inputs on the 520 don't have sufficient headroom to prevent clipping from loud vinyl sources (my Ortofon MC/NVA pre-amp combination is a fair few dB above standard line-level), meaning I had to invest in an in-line attenuator. More recently, I've been getting weird drop-outs when recording to TDK Fine and coloured HiSpace discs (someone suggested the onset of optical block failure); the latter in particular are *still* faulty on playback though Sharp and JVC portables cope perfectly well with them. All indicators that I should've taken the thing back *well* before the 12-month guarantee expired. Oh well... Mike. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Low volume from digital output on SB Live!
Hi everyone! Maybe some of you remember my report on hooking up an SB Live! Player 1024 to a Pioneer receiver using a TOSLink cable and the special Digital Output Module from Creative. I complained to them about the output volume on the digital out being low (had to turn the volume on my amp to something like -45 dB instead of -65 dB), and got this response from their tech support today. As it says, the problem (at least under Windows 2000 Professional) is with the drivers, so hopefully this issue will be resolved pretty soon. The drivers I'm referring to are the stand-alone drivers for the Live! series of cards under Windows 2000. Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:03:37 +0100 From: "Creative Labs European Support" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:Low volume from Digital Output Module [#246848] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear customer, The reason that this is happening is because our drivers do not fully support the Digital out on the card at the moment. We are working on a newer version of the drivers which will support this. Regards, Lynne Best regards, Björn -- Björn Wiberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Homepage: http://bwiberg.cjb.net/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: [Fwd: Maplin Promotions]
From: "J. Coon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone familiar with Maplins? I got this promo from them. -- Jim Coon Hi Jim, Your promo attachment was lost so I dunno what it said. But Maplin Electronics is a UK based electronics store, generally very competitive and a rival to Tandy (Radio Shack) here-- except that Maplin have a wider range of products and are cheaper and unless Tandy pull their fingers out they'll be out of business. Unless you promo was for a holiday camp in which case it could be Maplins, the name of a camp which was the setting for a 80's sitcom. I think that rather unlikely though :-) Cheers, PrinceGaz. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: JE520 transport mech repairs?
--- "David W. Tamkin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I gather that Mike means the cause might be recording into and reading from the additional area on 74s after 80s were cloned onto them, not the cloning itself. my cloning [...] has not involved trying to use the lead-in or lead-out spaces That's exactly what I meant, David. The failures of the transport may very well have nothing to do with my use of enhanced 74min discs; now I come to think of it, I've probably only pushed such a disc to the limit on two or three occasions (one was a deliberate test to find the maximum, another was a Creation compilation CD clocking at 79' - the TDK could only manage 78'30"). I'm resigned to being without my deck for some time after taking it into Richer Sounds tomorrow... unless anyone's got any better ideas? By the relative lack of response both here and on a.a.m, my 520 looks like a very rare example of serious mechanical failure. Mike. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: JE520 transport mech repairs?
Mike Jones wrote, | I also have a nagging suspicion that the failure of the mech might've | been accelerated by my occasional cloning activities (those | 'enhanced' 74min discs certainly make a hell of a clunking noise when | you try to record beyond their physical limits). So - to others who | do this (and with 80min discs getting cheaper, I guess there's less | of a reason to now) - beware! Using it for cloning hasn't hurt my 520; at twenty-two months and a couple weeks, it's been with me a little longer than Jonathan Irwin's has been with him, and I hope that helps put Jonathan Davis's mind at ease. I gather that Mike means the cause might be recording into and reading from the additional area on 74s after 80s were cloned onto them, not the cloning itself. Nearly all my cloning has been for tinkering with SCMS bits or recovering deletions and has not involved trying to use the lead-in or lead-out spaces, and it has done no damange to my 520. The nice thing about the 520 -- and perhaps other machines, but I know of none -- is that in RCD mode the exact address shows during division, so a user can divide a track exactly on a cluster boundary. That's invaluable for reassembling fragments when one recovers a heavily edited disc or for pin- pointing the end of the written area when one recovers a partly filled disc. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Why does Sony not have earbuds on US models?
las [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are people on the list that insist that earbuds cost more to make then a comparable pair of headphones. Now that might be true. But so far no one has been able to document what they are saying. They are making an assumption as far as I am concerned until a headphone/earbud manufacture comes on here as either proves them wrong or right. And I doubt that is likely to happen. Larry, I've pointed out (twice now) that I've read comments from actual headphone designers and manufacturers stating that it costs more to make good earbuds. HeadRoom.com, who know more about headphones than any of us on this list, say it on their web site (they used to, at least -- I didn't look to see if they still do). And as Rat pointed out, looking at prices on earbuds vs. "standard" headphones, the standard ones cost much, much less. It think that the combination of those three things is pretty convincing evidence. I'm pretty sure the correct answer is that Americans in general prefer headphones. I don't disagree with you there ;-) Unless you over pay for them, the quality of earbuds peak rapidly. They can go just so far with the technology. Headphones do not have the design constraints. Which is why they are cheaper to make ;-) It's like Bose and their little cubes and subwoofer systems. They really don't sound that good. You may think they do until you put them up against a good pair of Polks. Boy, do I agree with you there... - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: [Fwd: Maplin Promotions]
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Well, basically it was this web page https://catalogue.maplin.co.uk/promotionlistings/ PrinceGaz wrote: From: "J. Coon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone familiar with Maplins? I got this promo from them. -- Jim Coon Hi Jim, Your promo attachment was lost so I dunno what it said. But Maplin Electronics is a UK based electronics store, generally very competitive and a rival to Tandy (Radio Shack) here-- except that Maplin have a wider range of products and are cheaper and unless Tandy pull their fingers out they'll be out of business. Unless you promo was for a holiday camp in which case it could be Maplins, the name of a camp which was the setting for a 80's sitcom. I think that rather unlikely though :-) Cheers, PrinceGaz. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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]
