Re: MD: Pure marketing hype from Sony

1999-09-27 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: besides which there are those (and from what i've seen, they have a pretty solid case - my main sources are AudioTechnology Magazine in Australia) who believe that 44.1kHz, 16bit audio leaves a lot to be desired - the current top CONSUMER audio is 24 bit 96kHz

Re: MD: Pure marketing hype from Sony

1999-09-27 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what the accuracy of the data comes down to is that whilst the error correction my cause the errors on the discs, etc to be unnoticable, it is still ony the machine's best guess as to what should be there, so it isn't exactly what the original should sound

RE: MD: Recording 9hours!

1999-09-27 Thread John Chrapowicki
Matthias wrote: | hmm, I don't think so that it's s important to get an extra HD | Drive for it. Exactly.Why don't you simply borrow a stereo VCR, connect it to your amp with phonos, and record in LP with a 5 hour tape?Switch the source to 'EXT' first. You can then get some

Re: MD: Test mode?

1999-09-27 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't know about test mode, DO NOT enter it. It can do all sorts of things, including rendering your MD unusable! Seriously. Very wise words, BTW doesn't anybody have, or know where to find the Service Manual for the Sharp MD-MT20H ? I need that, so I

Re: MD: 701/702/722 Cloning possible... and realtivly easy ;)

1999-09-27 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hya All, Saw a post in alt.audio.minidisc about TOC cloning on 7XX machines. I tried it, it works ;). I've made a clearer version on my web site, still waiting for pictures (college digicam here I come ;). You can check it out at www.wood-soft.co.uk.

RE: MD: TOSLink protective caps on sockets

1999-09-27 Thread Simon Barnes
Simon Mackay wrote: ... optical inputs or outputs is often fitted with removeable plastic caps on these Toslink connectors. snip which can easily get lost. Alternatives: blu-tak or sticky tape They also present a choking hazard with toddlers if you are in a situation ... As a

RE: MD: Pure marketing hype from Sony

1999-09-27 Thread Simon Barnes
Magic wrote (in reply to me) simon 1) Wot IS a "high frequency dynamic" ? Think of the opposite - low frequency dynamics. You know those really low sub-bass sounds you can't actually hear as much as you feel them. The same can happen with high-frequency sound, in that they are

Re: MD: New Sharp 702 Red REC Light - Am I missing something?

1999-09-27 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recommend consulting the fluffy manual. If it says somewhere that the but- ton or dot or whatever it is should light up, then something is wrong. If the manual says specifically that it doesn't light, or if the manual never addresses the matter, then figure that

Re: MD: MD data conversion Zip Drive Click of Death?

1999-09-27 Thread Ralph Smeets
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MD: Cloning On Sony 520

1999-09-27 Thread tadream
Hello, This is the first time I tried cloning on my mini disc unit. I was able to get extra time on the mini disc by following the instructions on David Tamkin's web page, http://www.minidisc.org/cloning_procedure.html . I was able to get 78:40 worth of time on a Memorex 74 disc. Around

RE: MD: Recording 9hours!

1999-09-27 Thread Regis . PRIQUELER
All, I have heard of people using a VCR to tape audio off the radio. I don't know how well that works though with a 6 hour tape. Yeah it's good, I use 3 hour tapes on Long Play for 6 hours to record audio, it sounds alright. Slightly better then tape??? I don't know. Probably.

Re: MD: digital recording techniques

1999-09-27 Thread peterbarlow
Thanks Alexander could you just clarify for me.. Can I title my tracks with the PC sound card ? That would make a big difference in my decission to but one or splash out on a new CD player ( with digital output ). (I know I still can't title but at least I get something more for my money

RE: MD: (don't) forget Paris

1999-09-27 Thread Regis . PRIQUELER
Hi, You've got COBRA which sell audiophile material. I don't kown precisely their prices but they are 10% to 20% under the market price. You ve got the SERAP but you must have a special card (price ~ -20%) if you want a temporary card and the adress

RE: MD: Cloning On Sony 520

1999-09-27 Thread John Chrapowicki
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Hi Martyn, The clicking noise you heard

RE: MD: (don't) forget Paris

1999-09-27 Thread John Chrapowicki
Yann LEZY wrote: | Hi ! | | Last week I bought a Sony MZ-R37 from the Fnac for 1790FF (10% rebate | thanx to Fnac membership) in Paris. | Unlike public sales, it is shipped with 3 blank MDs, 1 pre-recorded MD | (good when you dunno what a MD looks like... CRRAKK !) Wow, it sounds like Fnac

MD: Minidisc in VW Golf - trying to help a desperate friend

1999-09-27 Thread Scott, Tony
Dear All, A friend of mine has asked me to mail the list in desperation. He has happily been using a Sharp 702 and a no name cassette adaptor in his old Peugeot 306's cassette radio. He just got a new job and with it a spanking new company car - VW Golf TDi (very nice actually). The unit in

Re: MD: (don't) forget Paris

1999-09-27 Thread salzberg
We'll always have Paris. . . . -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jeffrey E. Salzberg, Lighting Designer http://www.cloud9.net/~salzberg - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MD: Pure marketing hype from Sony

1999-09-27 Thread salzberg
On 27 Sep 99, at 8:11, J. Coon wrote: I and many other listen to music. We enjoye the music made by other persons, or sometimes the music that we played ourselve. And whether the music is played on some low-end device or on a high-end device that doesn't really mather. Well... it does

Re: MD: Pure marketing hype from Sony

1999-09-27 Thread Bob Willcox
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:26:46AM +0200, Ralph Smeets wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what the accuracy of the data comes down to is that whilst the error correction my cause the errors on the discs, etc to be unnoticable, it is still ony the machine's best guess as to what

Re: MD: Pure marketing hype from Sony

1999-09-27 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:26:46AM +0200, Ralph Smeets wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what the accuracy of the data comes down to is that whilst the error correction my cause the errors on the discs, etc to be unnoticable, it is still ony the

Re: MD: MD data conversion Zip Drive Click of Death?

1999-09-27 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 27 Sep 1999 | I gues somebody who stored his mail on minidisc and send it to MD-L? Nah. Just the stupidity of a Reply-To header pointing at a mailing list making it difficult to send a reply to the

Re: MD: MD data conversion

1999-09-27 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 27 Sep 1999 | 2) I think it would be possible to store data on a audio disc using the |analog interface.. Use two frequencies, one for '0' and one for '1'. You do not remember the days when personal

Re: MD: New Sharp 702 Red REC Light - Am I missing something?

1999-09-27 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Jeff Yerkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 26 Sep 1999 | I got my Sharp 702 from the Good Guys in San Francisco. After a few | hours, the red "REC" light died. That is not a light, it is button made of translucent red plastic that just looks like a

Re: MD: Where can I find an MZR-30 (or equivalent) Remote control?

1999-09-27 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Hamish Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 26 Sep 1999 | Can any one help? I have misplaced (lost) the remote for my MZR-30 | recorder, this is a real bummer as some of the unit buttons are not working | as they should. Do any of the retailers

Re: MD: MD data conversion

1999-09-27 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 27 Sep 1999 | 2) I think it would be possible to store data on a audio disc using the |analog interface.. Use two frequencies, one for '0' and one for '1'. You do not

Re: MD: MD data conversion

1999-09-27 Thread laerm
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Ralph Smeets wrote: You do not remember the days when personal computers used monaural audio cassette recorders for data storage, do you. :) Then again, a modem -- MOdulator-DEModulator works the same way, using analog tones to represent the bit stream. Well,

RE: MD: digital recording techniques

1999-09-27 Thread Tony Antoniou
No, there isn't a sound card out there which passes on track titles (it's not something that happens through S/PDIF interfaces). The only way you can achieve that is if you have something that either transmits the info via infra-red or otherwise through Sony's funky S-link connection. In all

MD: blanks

1999-09-27 Thread Tor Ramstad
where ca i get cheep blanks ?? regards Tor Ramstad - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MD: 701/702/722 Cloning possible... and realtivly easy ;)

1999-09-27 Thread David W. Tamkin
Ralph wrote, | Hmm, you mean TOC-cloning, ie, copying the complete contents of one discs | TOC to another disk or do you mean the transfer of track/disk-names from | one disc to another. The later is a build in feature of the 7xx, the former | is not possible (As far as we know her on the

Re: MD: 701/702/722 Cloning possible... and realtivly easy ;)

1999-09-27 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph wrote, | Hmm, you mean TOC-cloning, ie, copying the complete contents of one discs | TOC to another disk or do you mean the transfer of track/disk-names from | one disc to another. The later is a build in feature of the 7xx, the former | is not possible

Re: MD: not just connecting the dots (was pure marketing tripe from Sony)

1999-09-27 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, C A sine wave at 22kHz sampled at 44kHz becomes a triangle C wave, and that does sound vastly different. Ralph countered, S a 22kHz sine-wave sampled at 44kHz stays a sine wave. ... S (AD/DA conversion isn't just connecting

Re: MD: MZR37, SBLive Value and Hoontech adapter

1999-09-27 Thread Emmanuel Thiry
On [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 13:07:59 +0100 From: Magic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MD: MZR37, SBLive Value and Hoontech adapter Emmanuel Thiry wrote: I'm not sure that Creative's linux driver supports digital I/O. Last version I had a

MD: MDS-JB920 Disc Error msg on insertion of MD

1999-09-27 Thread Bob Denton
It is a known problem and it happened on my new 920. I swapped it for a 930. cya - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MD: Pure marketing hype from Sony

1999-09-27 Thread Magic
Ralph Smeets wrote: Magic, Magic, Magic, a 22kHz sine-wave sampled at 44kHz stays a sine wave. If you would know anything about Discrete Signal Processing you would now. (AD/DA conversion isn't just connecting dots) Cheers, Ralph - very sleepy... That could be a real bastard for

Re: MD: MD data conversion

1999-09-27 Thread PrinceGaz
Hey, the ZX Spectrum (the finest 8-bit machine made) stored data using monaural audio. It averaged about 1500bps, not exactly super fast, but faster than the ZX81 which was only about 300bps. I guess given MD audio is rather better than telephone quality, it should be able to store data with

Re: MD: Sharp 702 Red REC Light - Am I missing something?

1999-09-27 Thread Jeff Yerkey
Thanks to all the group. Sadly, I now know there's no lil red light. I think Alan Dowds hit the proverbial nail on the head when he wrote: Maybe you were just so overcome by the magic of MiniDisc that you started to see lights... MY ORIGINAL POST: I got my Sharp 702 from the Good Guys in

MD: Optical Out on IBM Thinkpad

1999-09-27 Thread Derek Jacobson
This is a little off topic but I am looking for a way to get an optical output from my IBM Thinkpad. Does anyone know of a product (or another way) that can allow be to transfer my MP3s to Minidisc without buying a desktop computer. -Derek Jacobson

Re: MD: 701/702/722 Cloning possible... and realtivly easy ;)

1999-09-27 Thread Peter Wood
Hya All, Peter means true TOC cloning, Ralph. Helge Boehme figured out a way to do it on the 701, and Peter found it works on the 702 and 722 as well. Helge's findings are linked off the MDCP at http://[insertyourlocalmirrorhere]/ms701_cloning.html or through Peter's site. He's not

Re: MD: Simulating a TOC Copy on a 7xx

1999-09-27 Thread Peter Wood
Hya Keith, Would it be possible to simulate the Toc Copy that the Sharps have and copy a track listing to a MD? Why, when you can do the full thing?? Check my web page for more details (www.wood-soft.co.uk). I understand that you can copy the labeling of tracks this way between two Sharps...

Re: MD: Error Correction Audibility (Memorex error rates)

1999-09-27 Thread Richard Anderson
Magic wrote: The pack of 5 discs were purchased last month. We tested some other Memorex discs in the shop and almost all of them had BLER 40 to 60. Which shop? I didn't know memorex were available in the UK. What do they look like ( i.e who makes them? ) Memtek do not make their own

MD: Cannot order anything!

1999-09-27 Thread Marionyt Marshall
It sure would be nice, if I could order some blanks from minidisc now; none of the links for anything works on that page! Does anyone know what is the deal with them? -- ContinuumX 1999 -- [where X begins margin further of expansion]