Re: MD: Nude Ex
Anyone know where I can get a pair of those great Nude Ex earbuds with a NORMAL SIZED LONG CORD instead of the annoying short cord that minidisc users love so dearly. Don't all the short-cord versions also include a one-meter extension? I got a pair of short-cord MDR-63s, and it included the extension. I thought it was standard Sony practice. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Net MD
Had a trawl round Sony Japan and found a page full of Net MD gear. Hmm... maybe the MDS-NT1 is one of the Net MD drives that other article referred to. I was picturing something more like a Zip drive. (I don't mean in data-storage, because we all know Sony bungled that chance, but in that it's just a plain ol' drive mechanism.) The MDS-NT1 just looks like the Net MD revision of the MDS-PC3. That's not really a bad thing, but I'm sure it'll be plenty more expensive than I had hoped. Then the question remains, what about the other drive? Maybe that'll be a low[er]-cost Zip-like bare drive. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: recent addition to the world of MD
i guess i'll round this out with a query of some sort. are there any R700 owners on the list? what are your opinions on this model? Yeah! R700 owners rise up! Fight the power, or something! I love my 700; I caress it and er, uh, I mean, I take it all over to listen to or at least advocate MD. With the armband case I can have it on without it being in the way, like a belt-pack can sometimes be, and it's more noticeable, too... so hopefully people will ask What's that? and I can evangelize. And it's light and small enough, I stick it to my dashboard with a strip of Velcro when I drive and then tuck it away in the ashtray (the clean never-used-for-ashes ashtray, that is!) when I leave the car. Who needs detachable face when you have detachable player? Hmm, I suppose all that could apply to any MD player, couldn't it? I'd better post something specifically R700-related: A friend was impressed with my 700 but wanted to save a few bucks, and so bought a 500. He's selling it on eBay now. He eventually realized the 500 was too cut-back, and bought a 700. And the 900 is cool but too expensive, moreso for the 909. So I'm satisfied. If NetMD ever comes out that might change, though. I had been waiting for the G750, for the built-in radio. Then I walked into Best Buy and saw the newly-arrived R700s, with a column of light shining on them from on high and a chorus of angels singing, and I couldn't resist---I even got a free cherub with the purchase! But I don't regret it; when I found out you couldn't record from the radio the G750 seemed fairly pointless (though still cool). For the R700-G750 price difference, I could buy a separate radio Walkman with easier controls and more presets. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Portable storage?
I've answered my own question: An ordinary plastic box for 3x5 notecards makes an almost-perfect case for 26 MDs (without cases). It cost me a big $1.02 including tax. And it's just about as compact as a 26-MD case could be; it's only slightly bigger than if I just had them in a stack. Makes me feel real great about the $20 I spent on that Case Logic 24-MD flipbook-case. Oh well, it was with gift-certificate money. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD-Ports
(meaning you can get Windoze bings and such as well as the music). In Winamp at least, you can choose the output device it uses: open the Preferences window (Ctrl+P is the quickest way), click on Plugins- Output, double-click on the waveOut plugin, and choose USB Audio Device for output. Then you can go about your business in Windows with the bings and such going to your soundcard while Winamp plays to the DG-x. Then when you finish your MD recording, change Winamp back to Wave Mapper output. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: POLL: How many of you will buy/upgrade to the MZ-R909?
I am taking this poll because I'm curious to know how many people will buy, upgrade to or pass on the MZ-R909. Pass---my R700 does what I want, and I'm not going to be looking at buying anything new until if and when Net MD arrives. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: too much of a good thing: a drawback of MDLP
It's nice to put loads of music and lots of tracks onto a single MD. But ... there isn't enough titling space! The 255 seven-character cells just don't cover it. I ran into the same problem, putting three soundtracks to the Dracula/ Castlevania games on one MD. It ended up being 104 tracks. But I thought, 1700 characters, that sounds like plenty! I ran out of titling room halfway through the second disc's-worth. Of course, tracks with titles like Through the Gate, Into the World of Heaven don't help matters much. Does a group mode disc expand the titling room? Probably not, I'd guess. But you'd need space for the group titles, too, making the available space that much less. I later re-recorded each onto its own MD, to have them at maximum quality---in theory at least---and to have titling room. And they're all (six total so far) exclusively on gold Sony 80s, too, for the fun of it. Fitting the just-under-90-minute Dracula X onto the 80-minute MD was a screwy job, trying out different combinations of SP and LP2. Afterward I wrote a program to help me do it again later, and if anyone's interested I'll make it available. It's for Windows, but I'm also working on a BeOS version, not that anyone probably cares about that. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD inferior to MP3: it's not computer-literate
This is because Win ME and 2k have no direct access to the serial port, thus meaning the program will not work, and in your case, screw up the system. The Mironics interface uses the parallel port, not the serial port, but WinME/2K don't have direct access to that, either. The Mironics software came with a port driver to work around it, of course; surely you didn't think they would sell me this program, knowing I have Windows 2000, if it couldn't work in Windows 2000. (Well, if it works in Windows 2000 is debatable anyway. And don't call me Shirley.) I installed the software and its port driver, rebooted once to let the port driver get its hooks into the system, and then tried out the titling. It ran fine, and pushed the buttons on my MZ-R700 in its virtual way, but they were all the wrong buttons. It titled my discs with random-seeming garbage, and then only if I manually entered titling mode first. Then when I eventually rebooted again, the now-fully-installed port driver trashed my startup and with it my installation, or so it seems. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD inferior to MP3: it's not computer-literate
No, portables do it in the most time consuming way, but even that is a no-brainer thanks to the mironics interface (www.mironics.com) Unless it FUBARs your system I ordered the Mironics setup and it didn't work, and when next I rebooted, Windows 2000 was completely forqued, with an endless and seemingly inescapeable procession of blue-screen STOP errors. A reinstall of Win2K didn't help. I ended up buying a new hard drive, installing to that, copying my files over, and reformatting the old disk. Mironics said that they'd never heard of such a thing, so maybe I was blessed with a unique experience, but I say be warned. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Recording onto PC MP3 from MD
I've looked at that web page. It looks like there are only cheap(ish) cables for recording from MP3 to MD. The options for going from MD to MP3 all seem to be a lot more expensive, unless I go for another soundcard. The cheap way to go from MD to PC is with a 1/8 to 1/8 miniplug cable, line-out to line-in. But that would be analog, and your original post said you wanted a digital connection. The only way to do that is to have a digital input on your PC, and the only way that I know of to get a digital input on your PC is to get a soundcard with one. Or you could get a standalone consumer-audio CD-recording deck, and copy digitally that way: copy your MD to a CD-RW via optical digital, then take the CD-RW to your PC to rip and encode it to MP3s. Rinse and repeat. Granted, it would be far more expensive than a soundcard with optical-in, but it would also be more versatile. My desk PC has builtin sound, and so I'm not sure how it would react to having another soundcard installed. Windows 98SE and 2000 will handle two soundcards fine, though it won't take advantage of both, as you will have to switch between them, changing your Preferred Device. (BeOS is the only operating system I know of that can use two sound cards simultaneously, though I haven't seen any apps that use the ability.) I don't know about Windows 95, 98 original, or NT. But as has been mentioned, you can disable the built-in sound. Using a separate sound card will give you a performace boost, too, since the CPU won't have to tend to sound-making duties. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD inferior to MP3: it's not computer-literate
Yes, I found that fairly to-the-point computer peripheral too. This addresses most of my gripes about MD. MD sucks compared to MP3 in that MD is totally not computer-literate. Well, of course MP3 is computer-literate: as you quote, MP3 is a computer peripheral. If you want to do anything with MP3s you need a computer. Period. It requires a computer to download the MP3s, or to rip and encode them, and then to transfer them to your player or to burn them to a CD. MD is an audio format, perfectly usable without a computer. Every time you transfer a file to MD, so to speak, it forces another layer of degradation as the bits are, for no reason, run through yet another generation of lossy compression. That sucks. The recompression isn't on the MP3, lossy-compressing what was already lossy-compressed, but on the restored, now-uncompressed audio *decoded from* the MP3. Like inflating a balloon, giving it to a friend, and then he deflates it again. Certainly, this is inefficient, but how else could it be? MP3s boomed after MD was created. We'll see what Net MD will do about it, if and when it arrives. MD should be completely re-architected, thoroughly, to match the MP3 paradigm of a general-purpose file-system scheme. Why, because you said so? If MD is so bad and outdated, then why are we on the MD-L still using it? For that matter, if MD sucks, why are you on a mailing list about it? Are you trolling, or did you just think that the MD-L wasn't active enough lately? The MP3 paradigm has been an unstandardized mess since MP3 players came out. If I put my MP3s in directories, will the player see them as separate albums? Will it even be able to see those files in the directories? Some players handle it intelligently, some don't even recognize the directories, and others just present you with an semi-random list of your 150 MP3s. The CD-CA MultiAudio standard will help this, but it's only been implemented in one CD-burning program so far, and no players. MD is inferior to MP3 because the MD track marks and titling are treated as an afterthought -- by default, these do *not* get transferred -- that's so lame, that's the cassette paradigm. Of course it's the cassette paradigm. Sony intended MD as a digital, random-access replacement for cassettes, yes? (Then the marketing department fouled it up by trying to position it as a CD replacement, but that's a separate issue...) Don't complain about MD being what it was meant to be. They call CD and MD digital, but they are *brainless* digital, lacking digital *intelligence*. Yes, the music is stored in binary, but aside from that, CDs and MDs completely missed the point and are unclear on the concept of digital intelligence. The Redbook CD-audio standard was created in, what, 1980? What a shame you weren't on the committee back then to enlighten them. Digital intelligence was not a consumer-electronics concept in 1980, and it was barely a concept in the PC world of 8086 processors. When a PC cost $4000, nobody was going to design something that required computing power for such a prosaic task as playing music. Don't blast CD and MD for not doing things they weren't designed to do, or for not doing things that nobody had thought of yet. Yeah, my rotary-dial phone sucks too, because it doesn't stream MPEG-4 video of the person I'm calling. We need to move toward MD-data; we must have the ability to drag-and-drop any filetype to the MD like to a floppy Again, MD is an audio format. It's not meant to carry your Excel spreadsheets and some JPEGs of Angelina Jolie along with your music. Yes, it'd make a cool computer-storage drive, but Sony bungled that opportunity years ago and I don't think anyone expects a comeback. If you want to transport your files, then get a Zip drive or a CD burner. Don't blast MD for not being what it's not supposed to be. My car sucks because I can't drive it across the lake. Then we find out that the extra ATRAC generation is forced upon us for copyright reasons. Well then forget MD and stay with MP3. We must engineer our own MD-burner technology that can do it the right way -- to make MD and possibly ATRAC a lossless bit-for-bit general file transfer and storage medium, *fully* computer-centric just like MP3. Oh, yeah, MP3 is ignored by copyright lawyers and the RIAA. Ask Napster about that one. No, the extra ATRAC is because that's how MD stores the music. If you put music on a MD, then it has to be in ATRAC---SP, LP2, or LP4 flavors---because that's just how MD works. Certainly, if you want to engineer that MD burner, go right ahead. We'll be waiting. But turn ATRAC into a lossless bit-for-bit etc.? ATRAC is an audio encoder, designed to make music smaller, just like MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, TwinVQ, and so on. If you want a lossless bit-for-bit general file transfer and storage medium then, again, get a Zip drive or a CD burner. And if you want lossless compression on that, use Zip or Rar or Ace or Gzip
Re: MD: Recording onto PC MP3 from MD
I'd like to know how it is possible to digitally record from a MD to an MP3 file. (Not from MP3 to MD). I've got a Sony MZR-90 and JE520 deck. I've also got a PC with a firewire connection. The JE520 has an optical digital out, doesn't it? Then you'd need a soundcard with an optical digital in, or some sort of optical-to-USB or optical-to-FireWire adapter. There's a list on the MDCP of such things: http://www.minidisc.org/part_links.html#dsp I have a Hercules Game Theater XP, which I don't see listed on the MDCP, so I'll plug it here. It has optical and coaxial digital in and out, besides being a great soundcard, USB hub, and Dolby Digital 5.1 decoder. (I wonder if Hercules might give me something for the GTXP plugs?) 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Zits cartoon
As many of you probably know, there's a strip from the comic Zits on the MDCP: http://www.minidisc.org/zits_md_cartoon.gif I felt a sudden urge to update the strip for MDLP. Anyone interested can find it here: http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/zits_md_cartoon2.gif 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: First Mini-CD player available - Beatman
Michael Hoffman wrote: Comments please? My initial take is that mini-CD players will eclipse portable CD players, portable MP3 players, portable cassette players, and portable MiniDisc players. I always thought that the main appeal of the MP3-CD players was that you could also play your standard audio CDs. The mini-CD players lose that ability; I think they're a step backwards. The 8cm CDs don't hold a whole lot, and for a small MP3 player they should use something like the 500MB DataPlay. But regardless, I expect that that mini-CD players will quickly eclipse the solid-state MP3 players, unless the price of their memory drops WAY down. They won't disappear though, because athletes will still want them for their shock-proof-ness. I also predict that there will still be MP3-CD players that use the full-size CDs, for audio-CD compatibility, for people like me who want that. (The new CD-CA MultiAudio standard will help that along. http://www.osta.org/multiaudio/ ) And there will still be hard-drive players with their large though fixed capacity. Having mentioned MultiAudio, it occurs to me that this might be a good place to bring this up: I've been working on coding some libraries to help create discs using the MultiAudio spec. But the OSTA is going to make the verification tools available only to paying member corporations, so it's kind of a shot in the dark. (I plan to write a gripe about this for a friend's e-zine.) If any of y'all are interested in also working on the coding, or helping gripe to/about the OSTA, drop me an email. (Or maybe we'll start a MA-L, heh.) 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD to mp3
You need a deck with digital out and a sound card with digital in. Once you get the files on to your hard drive they can be converted into any type of sound file. You don't *need* digital I/O; you could record it like you would an LP or cassette, via your soundcard's line in. For example, I record cassette to MD at the home stereo system, then take the MD recorder (a R700) to my computer and record from it, to ultimately transfer the cassette to CD. (For some relatives whose new car has a CD player and no cassette deck.) It's a lot easier than disconnecting, transporting, and reconnecting the cassette deck each time. I have a Hercules Game Theater XP sound card that works nicely for it, too, with front-panel RCA jacks on the external rack for the line input, and the A/D conversion done in the rack instead of in the electrically noisy PC. Plug: http://us.hercules.com/products/product.php3?id=17 for info. Oh, and it has digital outs and ins, both optical and coaxial. Of course, keeping the signal digital is always best, but not always practical. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: New Sony MZ-R909 with Type R DSP
Sony really burns my ass anyway!!! They are constantly coming out with products that they already have replacements for, but wait to release. Yeah... Sony makes a fuss about NetMD and then releases a new portable without it? I suppose that'll be the MZ-R910, which will of course come out immediately after you buy a R909. Anyone hear when NetMD might show up in actual products? 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: New Sony MZ-R909 with Type R DSP
las wrote: Richard Rudie wrote: Yeah... Sony makes a fuss about NetMD and then releases a new portable without it? I suppose that'll be the MZ-R910, which will of course come out immediately after you buy a R909. Anyone hear when NetMD might show up in actual products? One list member commented that it might be another piece of Sony vaporware. I hope their not right. Um, I don't know whose the One list member... is, but it wasn't mine. I'm far too grammatically anal to have used that their. :] Another piece? What were some of the others? I'm sure I'll recognize them, but I can't think of any. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD random silent tracks
And it seems to put a blank trackmark after every song...lasts a second, maybe even shorter. I have the same problem recording via the Xitel DG2 that came with my MZ-R700DPC. An almost-zero-length silent track gets stuck in between almost all of the songs in my Winamp playlist. It happens using either WinCue or the 'Pause Between Songs' plugin. It's not hard to delete the blank tracks after recording, but it's annoying and shouldn't be necessary. I can't offer a solution, but at least you know you're not alone with the problem. A friend (the only friend with the sense to own an MD recorder, though it's only a R500 :] ) also has it, and complains to me about it on a fairly regular basis. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Sony MZ-R700DPC
David Fincher wrote: I have a lipstick remote (MZ-R35) from the EP-11 that has LCD readout which I would like to use. However, I'm not interested in causing a recorder malfunction. I'm not encouraging anyone on the list to damage their unit, but I thought some of you may have tried this by now. I tried the remote from a friend's MZ-R50 with my R700. It controlled the unit fine (play, pause, skip, etc.), but the LCD display was completely inactive. I was surprised; the MZ-G750 has its LCD-and-radio remote, and I had expected that the R700 and G750 were basically interchangable except for the remote and the AM/FM scribed on the G750's case. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Which is the best dual Mini Disc / CD Player
the 700's have a normal sized AA rechargable and can take standard AA's. I think of this as a bonus i just pull out a spare AA i carry around and stick it in. I'll agree heartily to this: I work at a grocery store, and one of my jobs is 'Scan Coordinator,' which entails working midnight to 8:00AM one day a week to change prices and price tags. (It also entails getting the blame for anything that doesn't scan correctly during the rest of the week.) I listen to my R700 for the whole shift; it sure beats the Muzak. But the point is that there are loose AA's rolling around, all over the store, because the order-writing scanners use three AA's, so when someone replaces the batteries they grab a four-pack and the leftover gets tossed in a drawer to be forgotten. So not only do I get to listen to MDs on the clock, I'm using their batteries too. :] If I had a gumpack-battery portable I'd have to worry about the charge level. On a side note, the R500 uses a standard AA also (and has the 'battery bulge' on the back), but it doesn't include a rechargable or an AC adapter for charging one like the 700 does. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Which is the best dual Mini Disc / CD Player
As for the portable, from everything I have read, the Sony 900 sounds like it is great. The 700 has almost as many features (both are MDLP units) and I believe only lacks things like back lighting of one section. Most of the features are the same. I have a MZ-R700DPC, and the only thing I'd really like to have from the 900 is the automatic trackmark ability. At a family gathering, I set up the MD recorder with a microphone to record the evening for posterity, like my uncle used to do with a reel-to-reel recorder, and ended up with one three-and-a-half-hour track (in LP4, of course). Naturally this makes it difficult to find anything in particular (What was that joke Dan told, about the nun and the coffeemaker?); with the 900 I could've had trackmarks automatically inserted every some minutes while recording. And someone mentioned the battery bulge on the 500 and 700... I like the bulge, as it lets me set the 700 on my desk, while using the PCLink for example, and still have the screen at a readable angle. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Headphones
Mike Lastucka suggested: Might have something to do with the fact that they effectively seal your canal up. :) Maybe in your case this causes issues with balance or something, causing some sort of vertigo. *shrug* I get it with the non-canal-sealing folding headphones that came with a friend's MZ-R50, too. An addendum to my previous post: I started fiddling around with my E888s, and found that if I push the earbud down (but not in) slightly, so that my ear starts to shift with it, the bass improves dramatically. Probably not to the point of 'brain-shaking' but definitely good bass, a little too much bass, even, with the player set to full boosting. So maybe my ears aren't compatible? :] I've tried it with and without the foam pads, and the only difference is that it's less comfortable without the pads. Keeping my fingers pressing on the earbuds isn't a practical solution; anybody have suggestions on how to get around this, short of perhaps hanging something heavy on the cord? 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Headphones
Tim Pitman posted: I've just purchased a Sony MZR-900 and would like to buy some better earphones for it. I'd really like some that are comfortable, and with good sound. And Mike Lastucka replied: I picked up a pair of Sony MDR-EX70SLs, those nude ex ones. They're amazing. The things fit right into the ear canal (obviously you want to watch your volume here!), so they're very comfortable and you barely notice them after about 30 seconds of wearing. The sound these things put out is incredible, with brainshaking bass, and excellent high ends. My MZ-R700's pack-in headphones were better than I'd expected, but I decided to get something better. I liked the behind-the-head street style headphones that came with my D-EG7 Discman, but they got uncomfortable after a while. I attributed it to being pack-ins, and I ordered a pair of MDR-G63SPs. They sound good, and the short cord really _is_ MD-friendly, but they also got uncomfortable after a while. So I broke down and ordered a pair of MDR-E888LPs. I was hesitant to spend the money, but I had read lots of good things about them. When they arrived, I was astonished at how good they sounded, and they're comfortable, too. The only drawbacks are that they don't have real powerful bass (not wimpy either, but more bass would be good), and they don't hang on real well when I'm doing something active. So when I do yardwork or such things, I wear the G63s; they hang on well and I'm done before they start getting uncomfortable. The brainshaking bass of the EX70s sounds tempting, though in-your-ear-canal designs tend to make me feel slightly nauseated; I don't know why, and y'all probably didn't want to know about that, besides. And I've heard good things about the clip-on-your-ear Q33s, too, but after spending $35 for the G63s and $70 for the E888s I won't be buying any more headphones for a while anyway. Though some noise-cancelling headphones would be nice for when I mow the lawn... 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - 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
Greg Schwabacher supplied us with: http://www.etronics.com/product.asp?stk_code=sonmzr900dpcr David W. Tamkin noted: The picture on that page shows a deeper brick color for the 900DPC than the painfully vivid reds in other photographs of it on the web. ... If the real color of the red MZ-R900DPC is like Etronics' illustration, perhaps I'll buy one now and not wait for the silver model promised for late summer. And Alan Dowds asked: What's the difference between this and the base MZ-R900? Is it just an extra cable? The pic looks like there's a different design from my 900 - the silver round shape on the front? That silver round shape caught my attention, so I went to look, and sure enough, that picture is of a MZ-R700, not an R900. (Note also the LCD-less remote.) I have a R700 in blue, and I didn't think it existed in red, brick-like or painfully vivid. The features list is definitely the R900, though, i.e. dual jog levers, CD Text transfer, Personal Disc Memory, etc. But considering that the image isn't of a R900, David, I'd say wait for the silver. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: RF Car MD Changer?
The factory cassette/cd in dash player is double-sized, and there are controls mounted on the steering wheel. I don't want to change the appearance of the dash or lose the functionality of the steering wheel controls, but for the last two years I have been anticipating installing an MD player in the new vehicle I knew I would purchase. Ask Crutchfield (1-800-955-3000, http://www.crutchfield.com/) about it. Kenwood makes an in-dash 3+1 MD changer (model KMD-D400, http://www.crutchfield.com/cgi-bin/S-Otw7DIHunrr/ProdView.asp?s=0c=3g=600; I=113KMDD400o=a=); it installs in a double-sized dash opening along with a controller-changing Kenwood stereo. So you could get a CD-playing head unit and have the MD changer with it: radio, CD, and multi-MD. Pioneer also makes an add-on MD player for double-sized dash openings (the MDS-P7000), but it's a single MD. I couldn't find a Web page for it on Crutchfield's site, but it is in their Fall 2000/Winter 2001 catalog (on page 32). But I don't know if that'd be too much of an appearance change.. and you'd have to ask a Crutchfield tech if the steering-wheel controls would work with a new stereo. Oh, and you'd lose the cassette player, too, but who needs cassettes when you have minidiscs? 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: New to the List with a few Mini-disk related questions...
Doesn't sound like I will try out the MDLP junk. I would rather see them come up with some form MP3 decoding built into mini-disk players as previously stated. I used to hope for something like that, too. Something like a Diamond Rio, but using a MiniDisc as its storage medium? That'd kick ass... but then I had a Moment of Insight: A MiniDisc player basically *is* an MP3 player, but using ATRAC instead of MP3, and with a 140MB disc as its storage. Lesser sound quality (132 kbps bitrate in LP2, 66 kbps in LP4, compared to 292 kbps in SP); same media Use LP2 and it will be very close to having the usual 128Kbps MP3s on an MP3 player with 140MB of storage per disc. (Disregarding any quality-of-ATRAC-vs.-MP3-at-the-same-bitrate arguments.) 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://www.execpc.com/~rsquared/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: New MD-using product?
I had an idea, and this seems like a good list to air it in. Some time ago I got a Sony cordless-phone-and-answering-machine unit. The answering machine is digital, and its sound fidelity isn't great, so I'm inferring that it uses some kind of audio compression to save memory. My grandfather is almost unintelligible on the machine, because for some reason his voice doesn't get along with the compression. I wondered what compression it uses, and could it use ATRAC? (It's a model SPP-A941, if anybody might know what it does use.) The next logical step was: why not have a MiniDisc answering machine? It would be like the cassette-tape answering machines of old, but using a MiniDisc to store the greeting and the messages. 74 minutes would be plenty for messages, and with MDLP you could go for a month without erasing messages. I know several people who lament the demise of tape-based machines, because they used to have a few tapes handy with different greetings: weekdays, weekends, vacations, etc. This could be done again with MiniDiscs. Track one would be the greeting, and each successive track a message..? Anyone else think this'd work? How about it, Sony? - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
