Re: MD: Minidiscnow.com

2000-05-03 Thread sherryl
I have a hard time feeling sympathy for a person who was using a personal benefit like that to run a business. If you're going to run a business, you have to follow the rules. If you try to pull tricks like that to make a little more cash, you eventually get what you deserve. You've got

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-03 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 02 May 2000 | 1) EVERY recording methode is limitied by the bandwidth the recording-media |provides. But you can't call it compression. When you deliberately cut the frequency response to fit a given medium, you can

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-03 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 02 May 2000 | GSM is compressed and encrypted. And not used in the US. We have PCS, which is not encrypted. The header packets are secured using a key exchange mechanism to prevent theft of IDs. How come that I can use

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-03 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Simon Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 02 May 2000 | When CD's were first introduced, they were slated as being too "clinical" to | ears familiar to scratchy ol' vinyl. I think this is the same phenomenon | revisited. Our ears "like" the right kind of distortion

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-03 Thread Ralph Smeets
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MD: Testing a JE500

2000-05-03 Thread Richard Huggins
I have a JE500 and JE520. The list may recall that recently I reported that the JE500 all of a sudden (mid-session!) wouldn't record more than 2-6 seconds of material on a track. Starting a new track didn't help; changing disks didn't make a difference either. More than one reply was along the

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-03 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 03 May 2000 | How come that I can use my GSM phone in several parts of the US? Like WDCT, it probably isn't encrypted. -- Rat [EMAIL PROTECTED]\ If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ away immediately. Seek

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-03 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 03 May 2000 | Wrong, I talk about a single analog sigal with frequency x or a multiple | analog signals with a maximum frequency of x. Where x is 22.05kHz, there are perceptable harmonics above x that CD-DA cannot not record. As a result, the music

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-03 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 03 May 2000 | Where did you get this one from?? I *said* it was probably apocraphal. -- Rat [EMAIL PROTECTED]\ Do not use Happy Fun Ball on concrete. Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ PGP Key: at a key server near you! \

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-03 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 03 May 2000 | Video-CD, not CD Video. Video-CD is analog. Grrr... now you got me confused. :) | Thus CDV is analogue and VCD is digital. Which is what I meant (and what I said the first time :). -- Rat [EMAIL PROTECTED]\ Happy Fun Ball

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-03 Thread gopi
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Stainless Steel Rat wrote: * Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 03 May 2000 | How come that I can use my GSM phone in several parts of the US? Like WDCT, it probably isn't encrypted. I see no reason why it wouldn't be encrypted, since CDMA phones in the US are

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-03 Thread Mattias Bergsten
At 11:30 2000-05-03 -0400, Stainless Steel Rat wrote | How come that I can use my GSM phone in several parts of the US? Like WDCT, it probably isn't encrypted. GSM is always encrypted. /fnord - To stop getting this list send a

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-03 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 03 May 2000 | I see no reason why it wouldn't be encrypted, since CDMA phones in the US | are encrypted. According to Qualcom's CDMA FAQ, it breaks up a conversation into TCP/IP packets (the "digital encoding"), and each packet is sent on a different frequency (the

MD: HowTo: Entering TEST mode on Sharp-831

2000-05-03 Thread Dave Hooper
Apologies if this has been covered. Unit must be __unpowered__ : Battery removed AND power supply turned off. Press hold SYNC/ENTER, PLAY/PAUSE and DISP buttons together. Then connect power (turn on power supply or drop battery in and close cover). I haven't fully explored the

Re: MD: Enter/exit Test Mode

2000-05-03 Thread David W. Tamkin
Luca had asked, How do I enter/exit test mode on a Sony MDS-JE530? Jens answered, | 1. Unplug the unit | 2. Press and hold the AMS knob | 3. Replug the unit while still pressing AMS knob | 4. Release AMS knob - congratulations, you're in Test Mode! | 5. Unplug and replug the unit to exit

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-03 Thread gopi
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Stainless Steel Rat wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 03 May 2000 | I see no reason why it wouldn't be encrypted, since CDMA phones in the US | are encrypted. According to Qualcom's CDMA FAQ, it breaks up a conversation into TCP/IP packets (the "digital

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-03 Thread J. Coon
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RE: MD: Compression on Sharp-831

2000-05-03 Thread WZ
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MD: MD getting around

2000-05-03 Thread J. Coon
I went into a CVS Pharmacy by my house on the way home, and in the tape section, along with the video, and audio tapes, they had three packs of Sony MD for $9.95 US. MD must be comming into mainstream USA. -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson

MD: search on MDL archives

2000-05-03 Thread WZ
How come the search engine only seems to search back to Jan. 2000 ? When I do a search for 701, it comes up with like 2 hits... which is impossible! WZ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word

Re: MD: Minidiscnow.com

2000-05-03 Thread J. Coon
sherryl wrote: . The real losers are the MD lovers that live outside of Japan. I agree, they tried to make it work, and I believe they were honest people. They ran into some obsticals that they couldn't get over. -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker. mailto:[EMAIL

Re: MD: Track's missing

2000-05-03 Thread agusus
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Sorry, but what's a co-ax RCA connector? The

Re: MD: search on MDL archives

2000-05-03 Thread J. Coon
Did you ever hear of the Y2K problem? WZ wrote: How come the search engine only seems to search back to Jan. 2000 ? When I do a search for 701, it comes up with like 2 hits... which is impossible! WZ - To stop getting

Re: MD: Compression on Sharp-831

2000-05-03 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* "Dave Hooper" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 03 May 2000 | I find that my Sharp-831 does not offer particularly good compression. I can | clearly HEAR the artifacts, especially if the music contains a quiet passage | that contains a proportionately large amount of background hiss, and on |

Re: MD: search on MDL archives

2000-05-03 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* "WZ" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 03 May 2000 | How come the search engine only seems to search back to Jan. 2000 ? When I | do a search for 701, it comes up with like 2 hits... which is impossible! IIRC, the system doing the archiving crashed and a whole lot of stuff got messed up. -- Rat

Re: MD: Track's missing

2000-05-03 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* "agusus" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 03 May 2000 | Sorry, but what's a co-ax RCA connector? Coaxial. There are two standard interconnect types for digital audio: TOSlink (optical) and shielded coaxial. Coaxial interconnects use RCA plugs and jacks. | The only thing that came with my R70 is

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-03 Thread JR Moore
Thank you Raplh, I'm glad someone is kinda seeing things on the same level as me. 4) Vinyl has a higher bandwidht than CD, but I've yet to see an LP that uses it's full potential. True, most studio equipment is limited to 22khz anyway, but, I have a Quadra-Phonic demo disc that according to

Re: MD: compression getting OT

2000-05-03 Thread Michael Jary
On Wed, 3 May 2000, JR Moore wrote: With VCR's, no, my tapes don't always hold 120 minutes of audio/video. They can hold up to 6 hours. Zenith made one that held 16 hours. AFAIR there are various security videos (not time lapse) that record48 hours onto one tape Mi-ul

MD: sound card

2000-05-03 Thread Matt Wall
=== The original message was multipart MIME=== === All non-text parts (attachments) have been removed === Howdy all, recently i purchased the new M-audio Delta Dio 2496. I'm = really not gonna review it, but wanted to let everyone know that so far = I am very very pleased with

Re: MD: MD-PORT!!!

2000-05-03 Thread Jeremy A. Rosengren
Alas, if only it were digital. From what I read in the product manual, it's just a USB to 3.5mm bridge. I guess the only advantage to using it would be if you get noise when recording from your soundcard's line-out. Whee. -- jeremy Tom Thielen wrote: Check out MD-port @ www.xitel.com !!!

Re: MD: Track's missing

2000-05-03 Thread Graham Baker
Sorry, but what's a co-ax RCA connector? The only thing that came with my R70 is the optical cable. And the sony manual says that the recorder will automatically mark new tracks at the track marks as on the CD (when using optical cable) or when there is 2 seconds of silence. coax