RE: MD: Sony Black MD Storage Racks
I bought mine in a shop next door to Whitechapel underground station in London. I can't remember the name though: contact me directly if you want me to search it out for you. Regards, james James Day Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lee Sainsbury Sent: 02 June 2001 21:17 To: MD-L Subject: MD: Sony Black MD Storage Racks Hi, I've been told by my local Sony store today that Sony no longer sell the black MD storage towers. Does anyone know if this is true, or where I can purchase some? I'm in the UK! Regards, Lee Oxygene is my signature - it carries who I am. -Jean Michel Jarre, 1997 - E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:http://www.revolution-uk.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= (R)evolution - UK Jean Michel Jarre Fanclub - - 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: Sony MZ-R900DPC in stock at etronics.com
Picture on etronics.com is definitely incorrect, depicted model is MZ-R700DPC, but specs and price are about R900. Does anyone know if etronics delivers to Europe or not? Or maybe some other online retailers? And next question bothering me is which model of Xitel MD-Port is included in DPC bundle, DG1 or DG2? Price difference is about 20-30$ for models with PC-link compares to models without, but if I'll buy it separately it will cost me around 90$ (~60$ + 30$-delivery). /D-Off - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Radio Station Just Got MD Equipment
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === This email was delivered to you by The Free Internet, a Business Online Group company. http://www.thefreeinternet.net --- Here's a happy thing: this afternoon when I showed up at the radio station where I work part-time (WWFM - classical radio network), the chief engineer pointed out to me the newest piece of equipment - a Sony MDS-E12 MINIDISC deck. There's one in the on-air studio and there will soon be one in the production studio. Two of my daughters have worked on college radio stations. Don't laugh. Since college stations don't have the financial pressures of commercial stations, they are often very good. You can often hear home grown music and music that a commercial station would never play because of fear that they would not attract a large enough audience. Traditionally commercials and public announcements are recorded on carts (cartridges)? Is that what they are called? Mini Discs offer the advantages of carts in that if you only record a specific audio clip on a mini disc that's what it will play each time it is inserted. It has the advantage of not having to be a continuous loop, like tape and is digital. Mini Discs should have taken off big time at radio stations. They, in my humble opinion, would have be an advantage over CDs. Since FM radio is cut off at 15,000Hz anyway, I doubt that anyone would notice if the stations was using CDs or an MD copy. With their compact size and protective jackets, mini discs are far superior to CDs. The more I think about it, the more amazed I am that MDs did not replace CDs as the source of consumer music collections. With the exception of compression, it seems to me that the mini disc has it over the CD in EVERY other area. It doesn't have it over CD in every other area at all, in Europe it is still just a cool toy for most people, where CD's are the norm, the only place I know of it being bigger than CD is in Japan. And do you wanna know the reason MD's didn't take over CD's much? CD's had a 10 year head start Lets not forget that you have been able to record on MDs from the day they were introduced. Burning CDs is relatively recent compared to the MD. And people dont want to wait for music to be recorded, thats why pre-recorded music does so well, and probably one of MD's downfalls, little pre-recorded support If someone were to make a comparison table of all types of recorded media, the mini disc would end up with the post pros. Think about them compared to records, reel to reel, 8 track, cassette, HiFi video tape (should we even bother to include the DCC?). DATs and CDs. Larry - 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: Radio Station Just Got MD Equipment
From: Stuart Howlette [EMAIL PROTECTED] It doesn't have it over CD in every other area at all, in Europe it is still just a cool toy for most people, where CD's are the norm, the only place I know of it being bigger than CD is in Japan. And do you wanna know the reason MD's didn't take over CD's much? CD's had a 10 year head start I dont know which part of europe you are from but in the UK, minidisc has a general acceptance now amongst most people to the point that it is a mainstream recording format. Be it Dixons (a nationwide general electronics retailer), or more specialist hi-fi stores, you will find minidisc at least on a par with cassettes for shelf space. Even in music stores where two years ago they would have only CDs and cassettes, I see increasing numbers of pre-recorded MD's available to the point where it now about equals tapes. And the fact those same stores stock a variety of brands (yeah I know) of blank minidiscs says something for their demand. Many peeps I know had bought into minidisc before I met them, I wonder which part of europe this is where minidisc is just a cool toy. PrinceGaz. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Radio Station Just Got MD Equipment
Many peeps I know had bought into minidisc before I met them, I wonder which part of europe this is where minidisc is just a cool toy. PrinceGaz. I'd just like to add to what I said previously that roughly half the peeps I know own only a minidisc player, and have chosen the format for their portable music because there is finally a decent choice of pre-recs available now, and it is a lot more convenient for them than carrying around a CD player. PrinceGaz. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: busted
Is MD-L busted? -Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brainbench certified PC Technician, Linux Admin, and Win98 user. Claiming that video-games affects kids is ridiculous. If that was the point, then everyone who played Pac-man in the late 80s would be running around a dark room eating pills to monotonous music. - Swedish culture-journalist Staffan Blomsjø in newspaper Aftonbladet - - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: busted
Guess not. Must just be real slow for the MD community lately :-/ - Original Message - From: Robert J. Lynn Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 3:32 PM Subject: MD: busted Is MD-L busted? -Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brainbench certified PC Technician, Linux Admin, and Win98 user. Claiming that video-games affects kids is ridiculous. If that was the point, then everyone who played Pac-man in the late 80s would be running around a dark room eating pills to monotonous music. - Swedish culture-journalist Staffan Blomsjø in newspaper Aftonbladet - - 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: md-l-digest V3 #36
Well, we're approaching a technically accurate description of things, but we're not there yet. Please allow me to fill in some gaps. DDS-2 and -3 are both rotory head recording schemes not unlike common VCRs. That said what we need concern ourselves with is the linear speed of the head movement cross the tape, not the running speed of the tape past the head drum which is a secondary issue. The smaller the head gap and higher the rotational speed of the head drum the more tracks that the heads can put down on a given inch of tape. This then permits recording a greater number of bits on that same amount of tape, which we generally refer to as packing density...ie. the amount of data per sq cm of magnetic material. The linear tape speed employed in DDS-2 and -3 are pretty close I would guess. Smaller head gaps in the higher capacity format being the key to writing more tracks (more bits) onto each inch of tape. Early digital audio at the studio production level added some other issues. There was for a time non-rotory head multi-track audio recorders which employed a head stack with a large number of head gaps, each writing a bit such that the data was written to tape in a parallel fashion. As I recall The SONY PCM3324 was such a deck although Otari was a major promoter of the format as well. Tape interchange was a bit issue with these at first. Often a tape recorded on one machine could not be played back on another. The early PCM decks to which someone refered were in fact Sony Betamax inductrial VCRs with a special PCM encoding unit that converted analogue audio to PCM data the coded it for recording as a vide signal. These were widely used to master classical recording when digital audio was in its infancy. To my ear they sounded harsh. Some time later Alesis and a couple of other companies introduced multi-track digital audio recorders based upon VCR transports. However these did not code the audio signals into a video comaptible stream, they wrote data to the rotory head recording mechanism in their own format. These units were mostly 8 track I believe. Michael Graves On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 06:33:21 +0100 (BST), md-l-digest wrote: Date: 03 Jun 2001 00:56:03 -0400 From: Stainless Steel Rat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MD: DCC? * Francisco J. Huerta [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 02 Jun 2001 | So, how about explaining why he is wrong? I mean, it's very easy to say no, | nah, ni, but it is a bit more complex to say why. I know the reasons, but I | would definitely leave the explaining to an expert. Square waves taking more space. Just plain BS. The shape of a wave has no bearing whatsoever on how much space is required to store it. DDS-2 and DDS-3 (two of the DAT data standards) have nearly identically length tapes (120m vs. 125m), and have the same linear speed over the heads. DDS-3 has three times the storage capacity as DDS-2. Clearly, speed is not a contributing factor to data density. Doesn't require an expert to show that Jacob has a lot of completely bogus information. - -- Rat [EMAIL PROTECTED]\ Do not use Happy Fun Ball on concrete. Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ -- Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 06:36:17 +0100 From: PrinceGaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MD: DCC? But it sounds good doesn't it. And on an oscilloscope, a 1v pk-to-pk square wave will indeed on average be using up more of the available space than the same pk-to-pk sine wave. Of course if we were to carry that analogy through to its logical conclusion, recording louder music ought to require a greater area of tape to record on also, which we all know it doesnt :o) But I bet I could convince 9 out of 10 peeps by the usual baffle them with bullsh!t approach :o) PrinceGaz. -- An ye harm none, do what ye will - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: md-l-digest V3 #36
Michael Graves wrote: The early PCM decks to which someone refered were in fact Sony Betamax inductrial VCRs with a special PCM encoding unit that converted analogue audio to PCM data the coded it for recording as a vide signal. These were widely used to master classical recording when digital audio was in its infancy. To my ear they sounded harsh. Aren't 8mm video tapes (I believe that they use Hi 8 tapes) also a common standard in professional studios? Also, isn't the final stereo mix for an audio recording almost always stored on DAT? Actually the blank DAT tapes used are data grade and are certified as 100% error free (if you can believe that such a thing exists. When my oldest daughter was graduating from college, she wanted to send out demo tapes to recording studios (she was applying for in internship). At first we were looking for professional grade compact cassettes. Several people on the list that are in the business including Len Moskowitz from Core Sound told me that if we didn't use DATs they would get thrown in the garbage. I also first learned about Art's Cassette Castle from Len when I asked for a source of reasonably priced blank DATs We were sending out 30 copies, so it could have gotten costly. Art had single pass data grade (HP) DATs. At first i was concerned that there was a difference and with my background in MD was afraid that data and music DATs were not compatible. Fortunately it turned out that not only were DATA grade DATs compatible, they were what professional studios used. I guess the so called music grade DATs are for non professional use. Larry - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
