MD: Ordering a Sony MZ-R900 from the UK
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello fellow MiniDisc users, for much I tried, not even one shop wanted to ship outside of mainland UK (I am in Spain). Hence, I am looking for any soul who might help me get one of these portables. He/she must of course live in the UK. The best prices I have found are on www.superfi.co.uk and www.unbeatable.co.uk, indeed both of them offer to beat any price (by 10 pounds in the former, and a 10% in the latter). If there is anyone willing to help me out, please drop me an e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another option would be finding either a UK shop doing overseas sales, or any retailer in Europe carrying the unit (I have found none, including Spain). Thanks in advance. - -- Best regards, Javier Marcet mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. _ PGP Key-ID: 0x53B1551D | PGP Key: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=SendPGPKey Using The Bat! 1.49e under Windows NT 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 1, RC 1.1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 7.0.3 Comment: PGP secured to ensure author's identity iQA/AwUBOok/2cROAadTsVUdEQIKYgCg1XGPTHH5yvzL4+RQsR9BeYZQ7roAoLIT mrzIryRFjfZ0jN6d1AB1Bkyy =/nH0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: recovering deleted TOC
i've accidentally blanked an important recording. since all the data is still present, SOMEONE must know how to recover it without the TOC. i'm looking for someone who can do this for me; my regular recording engineer does not work in MD format. any help? - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: recovering deleted TOC
Sounds like a TOC clone should do the trick, what model deck do you have? Josh i've accidentally blanked an important recording. since all the data is still present, SOMEONE must know how to recover it without the TOC. i'm looking for someone who can do this for me; my regular recording engineer does not work in MD format. any help? - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Best buy, phasing out MD equip ??
Not that this is on topic or anything but around 2k is pretty standard if you are building a fairly cutting edge system (not exceptional). My last (spring 2000) was just over 2k (not including monitor/printer/etc..) 500 might be ok for a out of the box cookie cutter non upgradable sortof web surfing/word processing system. Unfortunately those systems tend to leave you stranded in about a year if you are trying to do anything more demanding with them. For those of us who do gaming/development spending 1-2k every two years or so is pretty much a given. -Jen [...] Easily over $1000 for an entry-level machine, closer to $2000 for a good system. Not to be nit-picky, but where'd you get these prices? Those are about twice what you should be paying. But I agree, it's still far more expensive. Josh - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: MD Acceptance
Hi There, I've been on this list for AGES now, but have never piped up, until now... Nothing of importance, just lending my perspective on MD acceptance here in the UK. I myself have a sony portable, the MZ-R90, Which I'm happy with (apart from the slow access, toc read/writes, and noisy-ness, although the battery life is great), the house I live in has 8 people in it, NOT including mine, there are another 3 portables (2 sony, 1 sharp), and 2 decks. EVERYBODY I know is now aware of MD and what it is. You can pick up a 'reasonable' md recording solution for much less than a cd-recorder, and the media is far more resistant to rough handling. A good many of my friends and even my boss all own MD recorders, there is a huge range also. From sharp, sony, panasonic, aiwa, goodmans et al. You can also buy a good many of the models from major high street retailers, Argos, Dixons, Comet, Curry's (these names mean something if you live in UK :-)) As for whether MD will last much longer against the onslaught of MP3 (which I also love), I think a combination of fear from the consumer and HIGHLY expensive media, gives MD still more room for expansion, before the inevitable descent into legacy. Although there's a good chance I'll just record my MP3s to my MD until it eventually packs up. Lee Parry -- Lee Parry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real World MultiMedia -- http://www.realworld.co.uk http://www.petergabriel.com http://www.womad.org -- - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Help! MD stuck in a sharp md-ms722
Hey List =) My friend has a sharp md-ms722, and she's got a MD stuck in the sucker. :( She says that she's done all the normal things but it's never come out far enough for her to grab it. Any tips or suggestions as to how she might extract it? Thanks =) Aileen - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: More on CD vs. MD Sound Quality
I'm catching up on a week's worth of digests, so bear with me for weighing in late. Larry had stated that it was his belief that most people cannot hear the differences in sound, that it was more psychological. Don replied that he does not subscribe to the notion that people can hear differences. I will grant that there is a psychological inclination to hear differences. We know there is compression going on, so there must be a difference. That being said, I am here to tell you that in some cases, the differences are there and noticeable - even when not listening for them. I don't know how many people on the list listen to classical music. I have made a number of recordings, Holst's Song of the Night, a piece for violin and orchestra by Respighi and a piece by Massenet for piano and either oboe or bassoon - can't remember are three examples, in which there were moments when the ATRAC just could not encode the music properly. On the first two examples, the problem occurred during an swell in the orchestra. In the third, it was low chord on the piano. Each time, the music came across for a second or two as a noise, sort of as if someone were blowing across a microphone. In none of these cases was I looking for, or expecting to hear, a difference. I heard them while listening casually, and then went back to double check. No need to do an A-B (no facility either), this was plainly not a musical sound. I have never noticed any significant differences in jazz or rock. The differences are there in some of the more difficult classical music recordings. Unless you have done this, I don't think you can call your opinion informed. That being said, I still love MD. In those cases where the MD has had a problem, I just made a CDr. In other cases, the MD is fine. Does a great job on vocals and choirs too. James __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: More on CD vs. MD Sound Quality
i've had similar experiences with fairly simple music. on a recording of solo turkish ney (flute), there are a few moments where there is a very noticeable squeaky noise high above the instrument. i was surprised, since flute is an extremely pure sound, very close to a sine wave. on a recording of brave old world's "rufn di kinder aheym"--bass clarinet accordion only-- at the beginning there's a slow volume swell, which md did in much less subtle steps rather than a smooth crescendo. both were recorded digitally from cd, i noticed both without even trying. these were very noticeable artifacts. my solution has been the same, to make cd-r's of each of these recordings. in general md is fine (in fact i prefer its convenience size). peter On 12 Feb 01, 6:28AM, James Jarvie wrote: The differences are there in some of the more difficult classical music recordings. Unless you have done this, I don't think you can call your opinion informed. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: The far horizon of MP3 storage
Just got back from a visit to an IBM convention. Perhaps some of you have seen this, but they're about to debut, or have just debuted, a portable 1 1/2 inch square, 1/8" thin one-gigabyte portable "micro drive" that connects to all sorts of things. Pretty impressive little thing. IBM MicroDrive. I thought they'd been around for quite a while, actually. They allegedly fit into any CompactFlash mkII compatible slot. Maybe it's just the 1GB-capacity drives that are brand new? A friend bought one (a 1GB drive) a week or so ago for his Compaq iPaq... VERY NICE, VERY COOL I think the price quoted me was in the 600-800 dollar range. Now if they, or a few competitor companies with less corporate-ness, can just deliver it for under 100 bucks. I think he paid around 400 UKP for it (so that puts it around 600 USD I guess, yeah) It's got a high initial latency cos it needs to spin up and spin down (on devices that use power saving modes, anyway), and that can cause skipping and drop outs. Of course once it's going it just keeps going and everythings ok, but I've seen software stutter when you start playing an MP3 or a MPEG4 video file or whatever (presumably because the software assumes the file is on regular compact flash memory with instant access etc.) I heard about a company that could offer 10GB on wafer-thin devices for like 10 bucks. I think it was on www.beyond2000.com or www.tomshardware.com or something. now THAT would make a definite turnaround in portable digital media players... D - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: The far horizon of MP3 storage
=== The original message was multipart MIME=== === All non-text parts (attachments) have been removed === Just got back from a visit to an IBM convention. Perhaps some of you have seen this, but they're about to debut, or have just debuted, a portable 1 1/2 inch square, 1/8" thin one-gigabyte portable "micro drive" that connects to all sorts of things. Pretty impressive little thing. I think the price quoted me was in the 600-800 dollar range. Now if they, or a few competitor companies with less corporate-ness, can just deliver it for under 100 bucks. === MIME part removed : text/html; === - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: The far horizon of MP3 storage
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:44:31 -, "Dave Hooper" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's got a high initial latency cos it needs to spin up and spin down (on devices that use power saving modes, anyway), and that can cause skipping and drop outs. It also has a high battery consumption. I recall 4 hours or less with an iPAQ compared to 12+ hr. normally from solid state memory. -jts Arlington, TX - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: The far horizon of MP3 storage
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just got back from a visit to an IBM convention. Perhaps some of you have seen this, but they're about to debut, or have just debuted, a portable 1 1/2 inch square, 1/8" thin one-gigabyte portable "micro drive" that connects to all sorts of things. Pretty impressive little thing. I think the price quoted me was in the 600-800 dollar range. Now if they, or a few competitor companies with less corporate-ness, can just deliver it for under 100 bucks. The hell with IBM!!! I just heard on the news last night that they have been accused of supplying the punch card equipment to the Nazis to keep track of how many people they gassed!!! Punch cards were used before more sophisticated storage media was developed. It seems that IBM had a German division even during WW II. How many people on list list had relatives that were killed (either as Americans fighting the bastards or in the camps) during W.W.II I'm sure it makes you feel good to know that some IBM punch card probably had their name or number listed (the Nazis destroyed as much as they could-they were insane record keepers-but just as insane about trying to destroy the evidence). BLANK IBM!!! - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: FM 15khz pilot tone
Actually, for analog FM stereo, it's 19KHz (+ or - 2 Hz) at 10% or less modulation. Also, the lower sideband of the L-R stereo subchannel extends downwards from it's center at 38 KHz towards 19KHz, so you may also be getting alias components from the extreme high end of the subchannel if the lowpass filter in your tuner is not working properly. To bad MD doesn't have an optional 32 KHz sample rate; if it did, the anti-alias filter in the recorder would for sure eliminate the 19KHz pilot subcarrier... Some modern tuners use a 19KHz cancellation by adding in a 19 KHz signal 180 degrees out-of- phase at exactly the right level. Of course they still need a low pass filter after that to take out the alias from the stereo subchannel. The cancellation method just further reduces the level of the continuous 19 KHz signal... US analog TV stereo uses a similar scheme, using the horizontal frequency (a little less than 15750 Hz) for the pilot and 2X that for the stereo subchannel center. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: recovering deleted TOC
How do you know the data is still present? In my MZ-R70 manual, it says that once you delete, you can't get it back. Thanks for any help. Matthew - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: recovering deleted TOC
I cant remember exatly how to do it, bu TRUST ME, its still there. It just deletes the entry from the TOC. - Original Message - From: "Matthew Bullis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 6:54 PM Subject: Re: MD: recovering deleted TOC How do you know the data is still present? In my MZ-R70 manual, it says that once you delete, you can't get it back. Thanks for any help. Matthew - 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: recovering deleted TOC
Matthew Bullis asked, | How do you know the data is still present? In my MZ-R70 manual, it says that | once you delete, you can't get it back. Because some of us have done many successful recoveries. The data are still there. Even Sony's web pages say that once you get past the limitations of your recorder's Undo feature, you're soaked, but it really isn't true. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: The far horizon of MP3 storage
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Ok, ok...let's not get crazy. Next, we'll be yelling to sue the companies that made the chemicals used in the gas chambers, or the companies that made the guns and bullets. And I'm quite sure that IBM machines were being used to count the number of Japanese Americans that were placed into relocation camps here in the US, during WWII, etc. IBM made a tool. The Nazis were the ones who used the tool for their purposes. Let's leave the blame where it belongs. On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 19:21:41 -0500, las wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just got back from a visit to an IBM convention. Perhaps some of you have seen this, but they're about to debut, or have just debuted, a portable 1 1/2 inch square, 1/8" thin one-gigabyte portable "micro drive" that connects to all sorts of things. Pretty impressive little thing. I think the price quoted me was in the 600-800 dollar range. Now if they, or a few competitor companies with less corporate-ness, can just deliver it for under 100 bucks. The hell with IBM!!! I just heard on the news last night that they have been accused of supplying the punch card equipment to the Nazis to keep track of how many people they gassed!!! Punch cards were used before more sophisticated storage media was developed. It seems that IBM had a German division even during WW II. How many people on list list had relatives that were killed (either as Americans fighting the bastards or in the camps) during W.W.II I'm sure it makes you feel good to know that some IBM punch card probably had their name or number listed (the Nazis destroyed as much as they could-they were insane record keepers-but just as insane about trying to destroy the evidence). BLANK IBM!!! - 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: The far horizon of MP3 storage
From: "Michael Burger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, ok...let's not get crazy. Next, we'll be yelling to sue the companies that made the chemicals used in the gas chambers, or the companies that made the guns and bullets. And I'm quite sure that IBM machines were being used to count the number of Japanese Americans that were placed into relocation camps here in the US, during WWII, etc. IBM made a tool. The Nazis were the ones who used the tool for their purposes. Let's leave the blame where it belongs. Mike...brace yourself. We agree! :-D Don C. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: The far horizon of MP3 storage
* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 | I'm sure it makes you feel good to know that some IBM punch card probably | had their name or number listed (the Nazis destroyed as much as they | could-they were insane record keepers-but just as insane about trying to | destroy the evidence). | BLANK IBM!!! Well, so much for intelligent discourse. *plonk* -- Rat [EMAIL PROTECTED]\ If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ away immediately. Seek shelter and cover PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ head. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: The far horizon of MP3 storage
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:48:04 -0800, Don Capps wrote: From: "Michael Burger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, ok...let's not get crazy. Next, we'll be yelling to sue the companies that made the chemicals used in the gas chambers, or the companies that made the guns and bullets. And I'm quite sure that IBM machines were being used to count the number of Japanese Americans that were placed into relocation camps here in the US, during WWII, etc. IBM made a tool. The Nazis were the ones who used the tool for their purposes. Let's leave the blame where it belongs. Mike...brace yourself. We agree! :-D Oh, the shock, the horror...the world will surely come to an en...oh, maybe not. See...I'm not wholly unreasonable. G --Mike. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: The far horizon of MP3 storage
Michael Burger wrote, | IBM made a tool. The Nazis were the ones who used the tool for their | purposes. The news is that IBM found out what those purposes were yet continued to deal with the Third Reich. If that turns out to be true, you have to acknowledge that it makes a difference. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: The far horizon of MP3 storage
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The news is that IBM found out what those purposes were yet continued to deal with the Third Reich. If that turns out to be true, you have to acknowledge that it makes a difference. Let's forget about the details of what the Nazis did and just for the moment acknowledge that we were at war with them and that they did very bad things. If what IBM did is true, they helped an enemy that we were at war with!!! This is a very serious situation. If it is true, it is no different than if IBM was making bobs for them to use on us. I'm not sure that I understood Burger's e mail. Is he defending them? If it turns out not to be true, that is one thing. But if it is true, this is very serious. I don't what to get even further off topic, but there are two factions of Germans (I'm not saying that there are only two, so don't misunderstand my statement and start slamming me as to how I could make such stupid generalizations). One believes that the worst thing Hitler did was fail. The other are ashamed of what their grandfathers did. It's not their fault. But imagine knowing that you grandfather was a vicious serial killer who got please out of what he did. Besides, IBM hasn't done anything to help promote the Mini Disc. Larry - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
