Re: MD: MD How good is the sound?

2000-04-12 Thread rmeeder
D during a quiet passage in the music! Who really gives a damn. The main reason I purchased a MiniDisc was that I could have quality sound at a price a lot less that DAT prices. Plus the flexability over CDs, i.e moving, combining and deleting of tracks. The other reason was, that I can use

Re: MD: mics and mini disks..

2000-04-12 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Al Kohout wrote: Hi, Does a MZR37 or MZR 50 require a mic to have its own power? No. Almost all portable MD provide power to the mic connection, which is intended for use with powered mics (they use to be more sensitive than the non-powered ones). But, if

Re: MD: Circuit City Responds

2000-04-12 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Lin wrote: I have been told the opposite by several alleged Nakamichi Dragon owners that said their cheap MDS-JE510 decks sounded better. Go figure. Shawn I really find it impossible that any cassette deck, no matter how expensive could sound as

Re: MD: Circuit City Responds

2000-04-12 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you ever have a chance, listen to a Nakamichi Dragon deck with $25 blanks. I guarantee you'll hear a tape that sounds better than MD. Of course, it's still a cassette, though ;-) Well, my (very) old Tandberg 3-header

Re: MD: Xitel, Linux, and MiniDisc

2000-04-12 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Erik Arneson wrote: Hi, I'm a happy owner of a Sony MZ-R37, and am looking for a cheap solution to recording MP3s onto MiniDiscs. The Xitel Storm Platinum seems to be a rather popular and delightfully inexpensive card, but I've been unable to find very many

MD: Golden Ears

2000-04-12 Thread James Jarvie
Hi. I'm glad that no one took offense at my post yesterday (certainly none was intended...I was having a very bad day at the salt mines). Anyway, others said succintly what I was trying to say. My real point was this: 1) I have heard, in some cases, a slight difference in sound between MD

MD: FA: Sony Gumpack battery BC-7HT Quick Charger

2000-04-12 Thread Edmund William White
Nickel-Metal Hydride (Ni-MH)/Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd) quick charger for Sony gumpack batteries. !!Charges batteries in less than 1 hour!! Battery charger for NH-14WM, NH-9WM, and NC-6WM Sony batteries. Light weight multi-voltage charger that uses any domestic current between 100V and 240V

MD: MD as a replacement for cassette

2000-04-12 Thread Ed . Wong
There are large advantages of MD over cassette - its editing for one. But for now I *still* use cassettes for "air checks" of my radio show 1) cost This is both as a single unit (reasonable "D90" tapes are typically less than $1) and as the second item 2) Time lenght - Get 90min on a MD

MD: circuit city site

2000-04-12 Thread Jim Gray
I got this nice reply re that circuit city web page: Dear Mr. Gray, It ?s always a pleasure hear from one of our customers, but when we can learn ways to improve our web site in the process we always feel we've gotten the better end of the bargain. As a result of your note to us, we

Re: MD: Circuit City Responds

2000-04-12 Thread JR Moore
Since I became president of the sight and sound club this is auctually something a lot of people asked when I used my MiniDisc JE510 deck to record concerts rather than thier crappy tape deck. This lead me that I need to run some blind listening tests. Seeing as we auctually had some advanced

Re: MD: Xitel, Linux, and MiniDisc

2000-04-12 Thread Michael Mitchell
I have the Xitel card and use it to record MP3s to MD happily under Win98. There are two Linux drivers for the card: one from Aureal and one from 4Front-tech (http://www.4front-tech.com). The Aureal driver is beta quality, plays xmms and system sounds fine, and is Quake-compatible. It is

Re: MD: Nic Boyde's essay contest Will MD Survive?

2000-04-12 Thread JR Moore
=== The original message was multipart MIME=== === All non-text parts (attachments) have been removed === Write an essay "Will MD Survive?", of approximately 1000 words. Entries will be judged by me, Nic Boyde and one other MD list veteran (yet to be named). First prize will be

Re: MD: Xitel, Linux, and MiniDisc

2000-04-12 Thread Erik Arneson
On 12 Apr 00, Michael Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want a digital copy of your MP3s, unfortunately, you've got to bail out to Win98. That's about the only reason I boot Windows anymore... Well drat, that sure isn't the news I was hoping to hear. So is there a good solution to

Re: MD: MD vs. CD / Golden Ears

2000-04-12 Thread Dan Frakes
"Shawn R. Lin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but it is my understanding that you are NOT using the "same setup". Your comparison (and I'm going by memory) is that you have a portable MD recorder and a portable CD recorder. The only thing the same in your setup are the headphones. You are using

MD: more on the Sharp MD-ST50

2000-04-12 Thread Leon
I forgot to post the size: 75.3 by 16.3 by 80.4mm... 111g including rechargeable battery. Never seen before: There's a plug adaptor (for power) available for the ST50's car use. The four buttons on the top face of the remote are the basic playback functions (play/pause, stop, |, |). Volume is

Re: MD: MD vs. CD / Golden Ears

2000-04-12 Thread Shawn R. Lin
Dan Frakes wrote: However, I also pointed out that I did a comparison on my stereo: same amp, same preamp, same speakers. The only difference is the D/A converter, since the MD and CD both used their own internal D/A. To be fair, that's a difference. Unfortunately I don't have a separate

MD: MD - MD dubbing?

2000-04-12 Thread Dave Kimmel
I've noticed HMV.com selling some of their selection MiniDisc format, which leads to an interesting question (either that or it just shows that I don't RTFM enough). If I have an MD deck with a digital out and try record to my MZ-R50, I know I can't record digitally from an MD that is a copy of