MD: MZ-R55 Deal

2000-03-11 Thread John Salomone
$219 seems about the best price I've seen lately, if I'm not mistaken. http://www.supremevideo.com/audio/sony/minidisc/mzr55.htm John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: MD: Cheap rz55?

2000-03-11 Thread Aileen Chen
on 3/9/2000 09:00 AM, James Jarvie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought this was interesting. The Wiz has an advert in today's NY Daily News, offering the Sony MZR55 for USD249.99. The sale is good until 11 March, and applies to stores in and around NYC (including, New Jersey and

MD: Vortex2

2000-03-11 Thread David Fincher
Computer Geeks has the Vortex2 SQ2500 sound card with digital out for $39 right now. I wonder if anyone has used this card and can comment on its quality. Does it work well with MD? Also, is there any way to add a digital in port? David -- David B. Fincher Assistant Professor Central

Re: MD: Vortex2

2000-03-11 Thread Edmund Wong
Computer Geeks has the Vortex2 SQ2500 sound card with digital out for $39 right now. I wonder if anyone has used this card and can comment on its quality. Does it work well with MD? Also, is there any way to add a digital in port? The Vortex2 SQ2500 only has coaxial output, not optical.

Re: MD: List operation -- taken private

2000-03-11 Thread David W. Tamkin
Dan Frakes wrote, | I don't say this to "prove anyone wrong," but to add some perspective other | than the "well, I'm on a list and..." anecdotal accounts. Not "a list and" but "many lists and." | .. too small to justify changing a list's management style ... Dan missed the point. The

MD: HAVi

2000-03-11 Thread Ed Heckman
A few weeks ago I mentioned that I thought it would be great if sound systems went to FireWire to interconnect the components. Well, last night I was reading the March 2000 issue of Popular Science while I was at the doctor's office. According to that issue, an extension of the FireWire

MD: JB940

2000-03-11 Thread Timothy P. Stockman
The 5 hour mode that everyone has generated such interest is indeed a neat feature, but the feature that is most inseresting to me is the ability to change the level of already-recorded tracks. I'm guessing that this feature uses an entry in the UTOC for each track that specifies how much the

Re: MD: HAVi

2000-03-11 Thread Matt Wall
Different extensions/specs for firewire have been trying to get out there for some time now, i know it's been well over a year now. The spec is not done an they dont expect the final to be done for quite a long time. I'm not a big fan of firewire by any realm so i'll try and put this with as

Re: MD: JB940 level shift

2000-03-11 Thread David W. Tamkin
Timothy Stockman asked, | Is anyone still interested in this level-shift feature? Goodness, yes! A lot of CDs whose tracks I use in compilations are mastered too softly, and occasionally I use an analog source like audiocassette. I've never successfully ripped a CD track to hard disk to

Re: MD: DJ Minidiscs

2000-03-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Brent Harding wrote: What's special about these DJ units? Can they control a satellite dish, can you mix in from other sources with it? I was anticipating on something so I could play a song, and insert things in, to kind of have fun a little, and my primary want is to

Re: MD: HAVi

2000-03-11 Thread Ed Heckman
At 3/11/00 3:37 PM, Matt Wall increased the world's knowledge by typing: Different extensions/specs for firewire have been trying to get out there for some time now, i know it's been well over a year now. The spec is not done an they dont expect the final to be done for quite a long time. If

Re: MD: Sony's new Internet Audio Recording Interface

2000-03-11 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* Eric Woudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 11 Mar 2000 | I'm missing something. Didn't I demonstrate that MP3 (a more complex | coder than ATRAC) Whosoever has told you that is full of crap. At the fundamental level, MP3 (MPEG-1 Layer III audio) has a pathetic time-frequency distribution