RE: MD: BMW 3-Series & MiniDisc

2000-01-17 Thread Simon Gardner
> I'm going to be purchasing a new 3-Series BMW and want to know > what options > there are for using MiniDisc with my new car?? I don't want to > replace the > factory stereo if possible, so I was wondering if there was an > option to get > a factory MiniDisc player or perhaps an adapter that w

Re: MD: Sanyo MDR-4

2000-01-17 Thread Shawn R. Lin
David Fincher wrote: > > I know some of you have been interested in getting your hands on a Sanyo > MDR-4 car minidisc player. I have one at auction on ebay right now. > Head on over and start bidding if you're interested! I will ship > worldwide at buyer's expense (through USPS or UPS). > >

MD: Coax - Optical Convertor (and vise versa)

2000-01-17 Thread Lynch, Jason JD
Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone can give me some places where i could go to buy some sort of coax - optical convertor (as well as optical back to coax). I think i read somewhere that they are called a TOSLINK Transmitter Module (is that right?) I'm wanting it to hook up my MZ-R91 to

MD: Sanyo MDR-4

2000-01-17 Thread David Fincher
=== The original message was multipart MIME=== === All non-text parts (attachments) have been removed === I know some of you have been interested in getting your hands on a Sanyo MDR-4 car minidisc player. I have one at auction on ebay right now. Head on over and start bidding if

Re: MD: quality of optical cables

2000-01-17 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* Ralph Smeets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 17 Jan 2000 | Well, for IDE (in UDMA/66 mode) it's 66Mhz over a 60 cm long cable. SCSI | supports even higher frequencies over an even longer cable. Unless you | start using fire-wire or other hot technology disk applications, you'll | never see optical

Re: MD: Ultra-low Bass (was: Odp: ATRAC-R and Laser Colors)

2000-01-17 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* "Rick Pali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 17 Jan 2000 | That's bizarre, certainly 200Hz it well above the threshold where one can | tell which direction the sound is coming from! Those higher frequency response settings are for when your speakers do not have subwoofers of their own. Ie, the ki

MD: BMW 3-Series & MiniDisc

2000-01-17 Thread Chris Fuller
I'm going to be purchasing a new 3-Series BMW and want to know what options there are for using MiniDisc with my new car?? I don't want to replace the factory stereo if possible, so I was wondering if there was an option to get a factory MiniDisc player or perhaps an adapter that would allow me

MD: OT - UK electricity supply

2000-01-17 Thread Ray West
Hi All, There was some discussion a few days ago on the voltage of UK electricity supply system. If the following has been said before, then I apologize for taking the bandwidth. The UK, as from the early 1990's, has a declared nominal voltage of 230V with a tolerance of +10% and -6%. Prior to

RE: MD: Ultra-low Bass (was: Odp: ATRAC-R and Laser Colors)

2000-01-17 Thread Rick Pali
From: Stainless Steel Rat > Frequency Response, Hz (+/- 3dB): > 80Hz setting 40-100Hz > 100Hz setting 40-110Hz > 120Hz setting 40-120Hz > 160Hz setting 42-160Hz > 200Hz setting 42-200Hz That's bizarre, certainly 200Hz it well above the threshold where one can tell which direction the

RE: MD: Ultra-low Bass (was: Odp: ATRAC-R and Laser Colors)

2000-01-17 Thread Rick Pali
> The Cambridge SoundWorks "BassCube 8" (which I recently > purchased) has a bottom end of 80Hz. Explosions make it > rumble quite a bit, but music barely makes it twitch. The sub on my main system is set to cross over at 60Hz and it does a heck of a lot more than twitch. I know that one of my

Re: MD: quality of optical cables

2000-01-17 Thread Magic
- Original Message - From: Richard Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 10:40 PM Subject: RE: MD: quality of optical cables > Yeah, I can do 5m Toslink-Toslink for 20 UKPounds plus 2 UKPounds P&P > (including VAT). Branded ones (like Sony etc

Re: MD: quality of optical cables

2000-01-17 Thread Magic
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 4:44 PM Subject: RE: MD: quality of optical cables >I have found optical cable at much lower prices than you stated. I have two >5m runs that I bought for $52.25 including terminations, shipping, and a >credit card

Re: MD: ATRAC-R and Laser Colors

2000-01-17 Thread Magic
From: Simon Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 12:18 PM Subject: RE: MD: ATRAC-R and Laser Colors > Wrong (sorry). While it's correct to say that you don't have to decompress > the ZIP into a file, you do have to reverse the compression algorithm t

RE: MD: quality of optical cables

2000-01-17 Thread Richard Wright
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Yeah, I can do 5m Toslink-Toslink for 20 UKPoun

MD: DMX Review

2000-01-17 Thread Edward Nigma
Ok guys got my hands on a DMX today. I have to tell you the card is awesome. Music is clean, and hiss free.The surround sound is awesome. I hoked it up to my home theater sysytem and was blown away. The drivers were upto date, and everything was bug free. And A3d and EAX compatibility simply rock

RE: MD: quality of optical cables

2000-01-17 Thread Martin Schiff
Sound Professionals has 5 meter Toslink cables for $22.99 each and 10 meter for $32.99. -- Martin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have found optical cable at much lower prices than you stated. I have two 5m runs tha

Re: MD: Macintosh SPDIF interface solved

2000-01-17 Thread P. Grover Cleveland
After a LOT of surfing I found the answer to my need for a digital I/O for the Mac. Midiman has a Delta 24/96 PCI card with Mac drivers which I bought for $209 from Soundchaser.com It has coax and optical I/O and an audio output. Drivers for the Mac are available from the Midiman website. Thank

RE: MD: cheap minidiscs - Sony 5 packs $9.99

2000-01-17 Thread Phil Reaston
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === I just visited my local Best Buy (Boca Raton, F

MD: Sharp 722 DEFECT! message

2000-01-17 Thread Terry Kirch
The last two times I've used my 722 to record live music I've seen this "problem" occur. During the recording I see a "DEFECT!" message displayed. This occurs over and over again while recording. On some occaions its put a track mark after displaying the message. I then end up with a large amoun

MD: Wavelets (was Re: ATRAC-R and Laser Colors)

2000-01-17 Thread Andrew Hobgood
> I suspect this is nonsense. (sorry Andrew) You do have to sample the data to > get it into the digital domain, before you can process it. (Unless you are > going to do an ANALOG wavelet analysis - please supply diagrams) IANAsignalengineer, but .. =) Yes, that might be total BS. I was under

RE: MD: $2.00 Blank MD's at Best Buy

2000-01-17 Thread Scott A. Cabler
I came across a 20 pack of Tdk MDs for 30 dollars at Circuit City here in Tulsa. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric Woudenberg Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 6:46 AM To: Bruce Yarbor Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MD: $2.00 Blank MD

Re: MD: quality of optical cables

2000-01-17 Thread PrinceGaz
From: "Richard Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I stand corrected. The SPDIF signal is indeed different. > >Ok everybody - forget the experiment (but do send pictures of your > >gold-plated optical connectors). > I'll try and get some for you all to laugh at :-) > I think they're made by Van Damme

RE: MD: quality of optical cables

2000-01-17 Thread COneilliv
In a message dated 1/16/00 11:41:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Given the 10m coax cable running own the wall cavity of my house connecting > the HiFi system downstairs to the computer system upstairs, it's not really > a consideratoin for home audio at all. I made a

MD: cheap minidiscs - Sony 5 packs $9.99

2000-01-17 Thread David Sowa
Hello MDList, This weeks BestBuy ad has Sony 5 packs listed for $9.99. This isn't the best price ever for disks but is a very nice price for being able to drop in and pick them up. Regards, David Sowa - To stop getting this li

Re: MD: quality of optical cables

2000-01-17 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ralph, > > It may bounce a lot, but Toslink works just fine with very long cables. I > have a 10 meter cable that I use to connect my CD carousel in another room > to my MD deck, and it works great. Not a single problem. > > -- Martin Correct, I was just trying to

RE: MD: ATRAC-R and Laser Colors

2000-01-17 Thread Simon Barnes
Magic wrote: > If I take a sound file which is 44.1kHz in 16bit, the same as CD, and ZIP > it > with WinZIP, it occupies less space. If I did this with all the music from > one of my CDs, I could probably copy those ZIP files onto another CD and > fit > two CDs worth of music onto it (although a

RE: MD: ATRAC-R and Laser Colors

2000-01-17 Thread Simon Barnes
Andrew wrote: > (hence, "wavelet"), and can reproduce the signal almost *exactly* > by compositing the wavelets at playback. This breaks the bounds of > Nyquist's rule, which states that you must sample at double the highest > frequency you wish to represent... because you're no longer samplin

RE: MD: quality of optical cables

2000-01-17 Thread Simon Barnes
Magic wrote: > > Is there really much difference > > between optical and co-ax digital connections in home audio use? > > Coax is a lot cheaper... other than that... no. > It ain't necessarily so. I can put a case for optical connections being (potentially) both cheaper and more reliable. The

RE: MD: quality of optical cables

2000-01-17 Thread Martin Schiff
Ralph, It may bounce a lot, but Toslink works just fine with very long cables. I have a 10 meter cable that I use to connect my CD carousel in another room to my MD deck, and it works great. Not a single problem. -- Martin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: MD: Sharp MD-MT831 docking cradle comments?

2000-01-17 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Jan, > > Thanks for the reply. > > Jan Frode Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > is the docking cradle really worth having... no, not really imo. > > It sits on the desk next to my computer here, and whenever I charge the > > MT831 I use it of course. What

RE: MD: Hi-Space Disc Problems?

2000-01-17 Thread Scott, Tony
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === I think we had a similar discussion a while bac

Re: MD: quality of optical cables

2000-01-17 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My computer, which > > transmits loads of data down SCSI, IDE, even parallel and phone cables, > gets > > by fine with plain old wires. Well, for IDE (in UDMA/66 mode) it's 66Mhz over a 60 cm long cable. SCSI supports even higher frequencies over an even longer cabl

Re: MD: Odp: Odp: ATRAC-R and Laser Colors

2000-01-17 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > But I have yet to find speakers that can reproduce a 1Hz tone, so why > record > > it if it can't be reproduced. Very few speakers even go as low aas 20Hz, > so > > that isn't being reproduced much either! > > > well, right - I forgot about the good speake

Re: MD: optical cords! Yes, there can be a difference.

2000-01-17 Thread Ralph Smeets
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Hi Grover, You're making the same errors as I

Re: MD: ATRAC-R and Laser Colors

2000-01-17 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ATRAC can never surpass CD quality since it stores less information than > CD-DA. For the same reasons, equal quality is also theoretically > impossible, and practically impossible without increasing the bit stream > allowed (24-bits/sample I believe). I"m not total

RE: MD: DMX

2000-01-17 Thread tommie
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === The digital I/O works very good (as far as I ca