Hi everyone! I have noticed that there are some companies making "lifestyle" music systems which consist of a stylish easy-to-operate CD-radio unit plus a set of matched speakers. Some manufacturers like Pioneer are selling companion MiniDisc decks for these systems. But others like Grundig, Bang & Olufsen, Bose, Nakamichi, Loewe (pronounce Lerve) and Harman-Kardon are not marketing MiniDisc decks to go with their lifestyle systems. They usually assume that a lifestyle system user is less likely to do activities such as make personalised music mixes on MiniDisc. If they sell a recorder as part of a system, they usually sell a cassette unit. Has there been any activity on the part of these manufacturers to bring MiniDisc into their product lineup, in a manner so as to work with their lifestyle systems? Some of the lifestyle systems often provide a tape loop (playback and recording) and/or at least one set of line-level inputs for extra devices. They usually even provide a connection of some sort so selected external devices made by that manufacturer can be controlled by the system's remote or on-board timer; or can cause "one-touch" play and "sync-start" recording. With regards, Simon Mackay ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
