Re: MD: headphones impedance vs battery life / yet another MS722 review

2000-03-23 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, J. Coon wrote: Hi, Here's were my question comes: Sharp headphones are 32 Ohm, I have an old walkman Aiwa headphones whose sound I like too much (in fact i tried lots of walkmans back then to find the better sounding ones). But they're 200 Ohm.

Re: MD: Problems with Aiwa FM-70 and digital recording

2000-03-23 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This place is getting the MZ-90 very soon. Should I drop the extra $100 or $150 and replace my F70 with this unit? And can it handle automarking my digital source correctly? Nope... The only way around is an analog recording! I must yet see the first

MD: Computer Com Serial Port to Mini Disc Question

2000-03-23 Thread David and Susan Tedeschi
My wife picked up a Sony MZ R-70 Mini Disc in Hong Kong this weekend. The salesmen gave her a bunch of extra cables. One of the cables he give her, he said it was the digital connect from the computer to the Mini Disc. The cable has on one end, a serial connection and on the other end, a

MD: MD Equip Pricing

2000-03-23 Thread JR Moore
Hey all, My dad and I were talking about something last night while I was editing an MD I had just recorded on the good stereo. Anyway my dad had heard the sound quality before but he really noticed it this time. Anyway I need to know what models exist under $100 and how good they are as far

Re: MD: Computer Com Serial Port to Mini Disc Question

2000-03-23 Thread Weber Hsiao
=== The original message was multipart MIME=== === All non-text parts (attachments) have been removed === MD: Computer Com Serial Port to Mini Disc QuestionWhat your wife bought = is the Sony's PC link. One end is a serial connection that connects to = COMX of your computer and

Re: MD: Computer Com Serial Port to Mini Disc Question

2000-03-23 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My wife picked up a Sony MZ R-70 Mini Disc in Hong Kong this weekend. The salesmen gave her a bunch of extra cables. One of the cables he give her, he said it was the digital connect from the computer to the Mini Disc. The cable has on one end, a serial

MD: Digital music survey

2000-03-23 Thread David Fincher
I was excited yesterday when Harris contacted me to participate in a poll about the future of digital music. Being an avid md user, I thought I'd get a chance to plug md for this nationwide poll. Instead, I found not ONE question about MD. It was all about MP3. It asked a question such as,

Re: MD: headphones impedance vs battery life / yet another MS722 review

2000-03-23 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm the happy owner now of a Sharp MS-722. All other MD equipment I have is Sony. But this time I saw very clear that Sony wasn't competitive in this area; first, slot-in mechanism is far more robust than the clam-shell one, second battery

Re: MD: Problems with Aiwa FM-70 and digital recording

2000-03-23 Thread Evil Jim
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Ralph Smeets wrote:

MD: Maxell MDs

2000-03-23 Thread Richard Chamberlain
Hi All It has been stated many times on this list, that you only hear negative experiences regarding hardware. What are the "groups" experiences with Maxell blanks? Are there any positive reactions? -- Grant Instruments Tel: +44 (0)1763 260811 Fax: +44 (0)1763 262410

Re: MD: Problems with Aiwa FM-70 and digital recording

2000-03-23 Thread David W. Tamkin
Evil Jim followed up, | New observation: When there is silence, the MD will actually pause | between getting tracks. It will not actually make a track mark, however. | So, if I record 10 seconds of digital silence, I can not hear that silence | later as the MD paused itself. Then

Re: MD: MD Equip Pricing

2000-03-23 Thread David W. Tamkin
JR Moore asked, | My dad intendsd to record an entire disc in mono to get the real | long disc time, but still I want to get him something reasonably cheap | and is a good model. Someone had talked about a Casio for $99. Best Buy | sells an Audiophase MD portable for $99 and the Sony MZ-E11 was

Re: MD: Maxell MDs

2000-03-23 Thread David W. Tamkin
Richard Chamberlain (not that one) asked, | It has been stated many times on this list, that you only hear negative | experiences regarding hardware. What are the "groups" experiences with | Maxell blanks? | Are there any positive reactions? I've never had any difficulty with them, but I've

Re: MD: Problems with Aiwa FM-70 and digital recording

2000-03-23 Thread David W. Tamkin
Evil Jim followed up further, | In this case, I'm actually interupting the digital signal by | shutting off the digital output from my soundcard. So, this isn't digital | silence, this is the complete absence of signal. Are you positive? Perhaps the soundcard outputs silence when it

Re: MD: Problems with Aiwa FM-70 and digital recording

2000-03-23 Thread Evil Jim
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Eric Woudenberg wrote: | When recording mp3's, regardless of | whether I put a space of up to 5 seconds of silence inbetween tracks or | not, the MD will not place track marks. | Right now, I've tried it with all the signals from my computer | muted, except

Re: MD: Computer Com Serial Port to Mini Disc Question

2000-03-23 Thread David and Susan Tedeschi
Weber Hsiao wrote: MD: Computer Com Serial Port to Mini Disc QuestionWhat your wife bought = is the Sony's PC link. One end is a serial connection that connects to = COMX of your computer and the other is a S-link connection that connects = to the Sony Unit. It is used to CONTROL Sony's

Re: MD: Maxell MDs

2000-03-23 Thread Link :-7
Maxell discs... If they have a metal shutter they are A-OK. It they have a plastic shutter, stay the hell away!! Poetry! Cheers, Link __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

MD: Help screen for MD recorders

2000-03-23 Thread J. Coon
How come no one ever thought of incorporating a help screen on a minidisc recorder? Things like removing a track mark, or moving a track on a portable aren't as intuitive as they should be on several of the units. - To stop getting

MD: Boosting digital input

2000-03-23 Thread Jim Gray
This may be a silly question, but I hate to assume; when I digitally copied a CD, I found it was recorded at a very low volume, so I kept boosting the input volume on the MD recorder until it was still undistorted, and recorded a much louder MD from the CD. I would imagine that there will be no

Re: MD: Digital music survey

2000-03-23 Thread JR Moore
I guess this could be interpreted 2 ways: Either the people making this poll think that md is out for the future of digital music, or else they are clueless. IT just goes to show how people want it faster. Speed isn't everything. People are dumb. Face it, even with IQ's above normal,

MD: MZ-R91 Problems

2000-03-23 Thread Lynch, Jason JD
Hi I don't know if anyone can help me with this problem but it's starting to really worry me. Last night i recorded my mates band with my MZ-R91. The night before I made sure that i did a full charge of the battery so that everything would be sweet. Anyways, i start recording and put the MD

Re: MD: Help screen for MD recorders

2000-03-23 Thread Dave Kimmel
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, J. Coon wrote: How come no one ever thought of incorporating a help screen on a minidisc recorder? Things like removing a track mark, or moving a track on a portable aren't as intuitive as they should be on several of the units. This is something that's been bugging

Re: MD: Maxell MDs

2000-03-23 Thread Tony Keogh
Hi All It has been stated many times on this list, that you only hear negative experiences regarding hardware. What are the "groups" experiences with Maxell blanks? Are there any positive reactions? I've had problems with the plastic shutter Maxell's. They didn't record properly and

Re: MD: Help screen for MD recorders

2000-03-23 Thread Shawn R. Lin
Dave Kimmel wrote: - When you press up or down, it would bring up a track list, showing the track titles and playtimes. Pressing Enter or Play would play the track. Ideally, this would function identically to the phone book on my 6188. This feature is nice. I have this feature in my car