Re: MD: Coax- Optical Converter
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, las wrote: > Ralph, DTS is a whole other world. You combine that with TXH ( or is it THX?) THX is just a guarentee of certain qualities, it's not a sound format or encoding. THX is more like a seal of approval than anything else, and one of dubious worth, FWIW. For example, a DVD with the THX logo might still be a non-anamorphic transfer, but everyone would agree that a (widescreen) DVD should be anamorphic if it's meant to be of the highest quality. > because unlike Dolby, in DTS all of the channels are full spectrum (and > the rear channels are separate descrete If you mean Dolby Digital, this isn't entirely true. Dolby Pro-Logic is what you're describing. That has left, right and rear channels only, AFAIK. Dolby Digital is a different format to Pro-Logic. Both Dolby Digital and, like DTS, features fully discrete 5.1 channel sound: left, right, centre, rear-left, rear-right, and low frequency effects (the .1), which is sometimes called the subwoofer channel, but that is slightly incorrect. (Although the way the LFE channel is usually used, it might as well be true.) I think DTS stands for Digital Theatre Sound, but I often get the name wrong so don't quote me on that, heh! (In case anyone thought the D in DTS meant Dolby.) There are also new versions of both DD and DTS, I think called DD-ES and DTS-ES (Extended Surround). (Actially, I can't find the article I read on DD-ES so I could be remembering things wrong! DTS-ES definitely exists, though.) The ES part gives DTS yet another channel for rear-centre. All very exciting, I know... heh :-) -- .- Leo Davidson --//-//--//--. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www.ox.compsoc.net/~leo // icq: 1702448 // Nudel | | ==//=//==//=== | - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Coax- Optical Converter
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, las wrote: > Hi. Do you have a receiver that has DTS circuitry in it? Yep. -- .- Leo Davidson --//-//--//--. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www.ox.compsoc.net/~leo // icq: 1702448 // Nudel | | ==//=//==//=== | - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Coax- Optical Converter
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Ralph Smeets wrote: > looked it up and it seems that only DTS sound surpasses the bandwidth of > TosLink.. Still not sure there since my DVD player does DTS and there's no mention of it only working with the coax output. I'm pretty sure I played a DTS disc on it before I switched to coax for the DVD (since I got a CD player which only had optical out, not for any other reason.) Cheers, Leo - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Coax- Optical Converter
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Ralph Smeets wrote: > AFAIK, Dobly Digital, DTC and/or MPEG-1 sound surpasses the bandwidth of > TosLink (the optical link). Thus coaxial is used. I don't think this is true since many DVD players, mine included, have both coax and optical outputs and 5.1 channel sound works through both. Cheers, Leo - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Coax- Optical Converter
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, las wrote: > What do you think? All I know is that I just bought a DVD player (hasn't > been delivered yet) that plays MP3s. Unfortunately it has a coaxial > output, so I guess I may be one of those people interested in such a > converter. One thing I would say is that if there really is a difference between coax and optical, it's very unlikely to be as noticable as the difference between mp3/minidisc and the original, uncompressed recording, so why worry? :-) -- .- Leo Davidson --//-//--//--. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www.ox.compsoc.net/~leo // icq: 1702448 // Nudel | | ==//=//==//=== | - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: UK supplier for TOSLINK splitter?
Hi, does anyone know a UK (or decent US or wherever) supplier for a
TOSLINK y-splitter?
I've spent the last couple of hours (ARGH!) searching with no luck.
www.soundprofessionals.com have a nicely priced splitter but for orders
from outside of the US they require a fax or email of a scan/photocopy of
both sides of your credit card. I don't have a fax machine at home and
there is no way in hell I am going to send a picture of my credit card
over something as insecure as email! (No other site I've seen does this;
it can't be good for business...)
:-(
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Leo
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Re: MD: Purchasing MD equipment from the US (to the UK)
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Mathew J. Newton wrote: > Has anyone out there (UK members specifically) had much experience in > purchasing MD equipment mail order from the US? www.minidisco.com seem very good to me. I got a Japanese import MZ-E90 from them. They ship to the UK but I don't know how fast or whether customs will burn you since I was in the USA at the time. :) -- .- Leo Davidson --//-//--//--. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www.ox.compsoc.net/~leo // icq: 1702448 // Nudel | | ==//=//==//=== | - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: emailing bird song recordings
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, David Kuhn wrote: > I am engaged in a research project involving recording bird vocalizations. > I need to be able to email these recordings. I have a Sony MZ-R90 MD and a > HP Omnibook 2000 laptop computer with a sound card. Can someone tell me how > I can find out what is needed to get the recordings into my laptop and then > to email them? Assuming that you don't mind sampling the MD output (i.e. not a digital copy of it), you could just get a cable with a small headphone jack on each end and connect the MD's line-out to your laptop's line-in. (Or use the headphone connector and/or laptop's mic, if either doesn't have a line-in/out, but that's not as good.) Then you just need something to record the samples. Sound Recorder comes with Windows but I think is still pathetically limited to 30 seconds or something rediculous. If you need longer I'm not sure what the best thing to use is, but you could go for a trial version of Cool Edit Pro which I think would do the job. Good luck! Leo -- .- Leo Davidson --//-//--//--. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www.ox.compsoc.net/~leo // icq: 1702448 // Nudel | | ==//=//==//=== | - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Aiwa AM-F5 problem
You've probably already tried this, but maybe the lens is just dirty and needs cleaning with one of the cleaning MDs you can buy in most shops? Whatever the problem is, good luck! My second Sony discman did something similar a few months ago -- when trying to play most CDs it would say "no disc" unless the unit was shaken while it started to play (seriously!). I tried a cleaning CD (and I had to shake the unit to get that to play, too, heh), but no luck. (For some reason it played one of my CDs fine, though.) The complete unreliability of portable CD players is what ultimately made me jump to MD for portable audio, despite being quite anti-MD at the time. I didn't like the idea of lossy compression and I hated (and still do :-)) having to spent time in advance recording my CDs to MD. But if the damn players were going to break ever six months, MD was a much better option. (And the players are a lot more portable, too.) (That said, I bought another discman, almost identical to the old one, to use as a decidated digital-output CD->MD device. :-) (And to play a new CD which came out while I was in another country with only my MD player, heh)) Cheers, Leo -- - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Digital CD-MD-Amp passthrough
Hi, I've just joined this list so apologies if this has been asked before, but I couldn't see a mention in any FAQs or webpages. I'm thinking about getting an MD-deck, mainly to record CDs to MD. (I currently use a Discman and an MZ-R55 connected via optical, and have an MZ-E90 for playback.) My problem is that my Sony CD megachanger has a pretty bad DAC and sounds a lot better when connected to my Amp via an optical cable. If I get an MD deck I want to connect the CD changer to it in the same way to get digital-quality MD copies, but the changer only has one optical/digital output. I guess I need to get an MD deck that has optical input and output and is able to act as a passthrough so the CD's optical output can reach the amp via the MD deck. Does anyone know which MD decks, if any, support this? I have seen one or two which have optical output as well as input, but the typically sparse webpages don't say whether the output is only for the MD deck itself or whather it will relay the optical input to the output when the MD isn't in use. Many thanks for any information, Leo -- - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
