Re: MD: Sony MZ-R90 shock resistance, anecdotal report
I don't know if all 831s are built alike, but this happens to mine. If I place it in my pocket, so that the pickup is moving up-down, it skips very easily, and takes awfully long to recover. Often there's a noise that follows this - as if the pickup fell down the worm gear all the way to one end of its travel. This has never happened with any other of my portables. Panasonics do this if I shake them utterly violently, but I haven't "heard" the same cases anywhere. The 831 is as good as any other modern portable if I place it in a different orientation, i.e. so that the pickup travels left-right. Thought I'd share :) Leon Hi, I have used an MZ-R90 and MZ-R50 in the same pocket of the same shorts on the same exercize machine (Nordic track). The MZ-R50 was in use for over a year and never once skipped. The MZ-R90 has been in use for the last month and has skipped (muted actually) at least 3 times. Perhaps one could argue that the MZ-R90 is smaller and shifts into a more skip prone position in my pocket ... but I think a more likely answer is that the MZ-R90 sacrifices some shock resistance for battery life. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Sony MZ-R90 shock resistance, anecdotal report
* Eric Woudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 16 May 2000 | Perhaps one could argue that the MZ-R90 is smaller and shifts into a | more skip prone position in my pocket ... but I think a more likely | answer is that the MZ-R90 sacrifices some shock resistance for battery | life. Indirectly true. The R90 has a new, smaller, lower power draw mechanism than the R50, or in fact anything else previously extant. This new mechanism appears to be more prone to shock-induced skipping than the previous mechanism. -- Rat [EMAIL PROTECTED]\ Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ unknown glowing substance which fell to PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ Earth, presumably from outer space. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Sony MZ-R90 shock resistance, anecdotal report
Eric Woudenberg wrote: Perhaps one could argue that the MZ-R90 is smaller and shifts into a more skip prone position in my pocket ... but I think a more likely answer is that the MZ-R90 sacrifices some shock resistance for battery life. Rick Take yer headphones off!! :-) And then listen to the R90. You'll hear that about every thirty seconds, it spins up to read in a blorf of data from the disc and then shuts down again. In other words, it's using ~30 seconds of that 40 second "anti-shock buffer" as a simple data buffer to extend battery life. In reality, the R90 has a minimum of about 10 seconds of shock memory. No big deal to me, at least. With blown knees, I'm never active enough to test it :-( John -- John De Armond [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://personal.bellsouth.net/~johngd/ Neon John's Custom Neon Cleveland, TN "Bendin' Glass 'n Passin' Gas" - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
