MD: CD vrs tape in cars

2000-11-14 Thread J. Coon
I may be wrong but I think the tape units are more unreliable. They have to have rubber band belts, motors, reversing machanical linkage, tape heads that get dirty and get magnetized. A CD player or a MD player doesn't have a magnetic head to get magnetized, and I don't think they have rubber ba

Re: MD: Sharp vs. Sony ATRAC

2000-11-14 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* las <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 14 Nov 2000 | I think that you may have missed my point. The fact that it can match | impedance is not the important factor in this thread. The fact that every | signal that comes out of a Sharp portable is "processed" rather than "flat" | do to the lack of a

Re: MD: ATRAC3, MD DATA, MDLP

2000-11-14 Thread las
Matt Wall wrote: > where is this readily available software available from? url's anyone? > > That's what I'd like to know! > Howard Chu wrote: > > Now that there's readily available software for encoding music into > ATRAC3, has anyone used their MD DATA drive to write an MD DATA disc > th

Re: MD: Sharp vs. Sony ATRAC

2000-11-14 Thread Dan Frakes
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 00:31:13 -0500, sherryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are you talking about "line-out" signals? Or headphone-out signals? >> > >Dan, > >You must have never owned a Sharp portable MD unit. There is only one >output. The headphone and line out are combined into one and use >sp

Re: MD: Sharp vs. Sony ATRAC

2000-11-14 Thread las
Stainless Steel Rat wrote: > Well, if you have a true line in on the other end, the impedance is high, > which causes the built-in amp to cut out. Then you set the volume to > maximum and you have a line out. I think that you may have missed my point. The fact that it can match impedance is

Re: MD: ATRAC3, MD DATA, MDLP

2000-11-14 Thread Matt Wall
where is this readily available software available from? url's anyone? thanks matt - Original Message - From: "Howard Chu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 5:21 PM Subject: MD: ATRAC3, MD DATA, MDLP > > Now that there's readily available sof

Re: MD: Sharp vs. Sony ATRAC

2000-11-14 Thread J. Coon
Stainless Steel Rat wrote: > > * sherryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 13 Nov 2000 > | I don't think that it has anything to do with either's ATRACs. It is > | impossible to play a Sharp portable without it influencing the "color" > | of the sound because it does not have a separate line out. >

Re: MD: ATRAC3, MD DATA, MDLP

2000-11-14 Thread Jeanmougin
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === i think that the structure of a MD Data is diff

MD: ATRAC3, MD DATA, MDLP

2000-11-14 Thread Howard Chu
Now that there's readily available software for encoding music into ATRAC3, has anyone used their MD DATA drive to write an MD DATA disc that's playable in an MDLP player? -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://high

Re: MD: Sharp vs. Sony ATRAC

2000-11-14 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* sherryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 13 Nov 2000 | I don't think that it has anything to do with either's ATRACs. It is | impossible to play a Sharp portable without it influencing the "color" | of the sound because it does not have a separate line out. Well, if you have a true line in on the

MD: Mystery mini system? Anyone know anything about it?

2000-11-14 Thread Robin Landy
I've seen a mini system (with integrated minidisc) advertised on intersaver.co.uk which I'm thinking of buying. However, I can't find any information on it anywhere on the internet (its not on minidisc.org and I can't find it thru Google). The model is the SANYO SYS-X5CTM. The intersaver blur

Re: MD: MXD-D3

2000-11-14 Thread Tim
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === I have had mine for 2 years and never had a sin

Re: MD: Sharp vs. Sony ATRAC

2000-11-14 Thread Michael Burger
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Which model(s) actually do that? I don't think

MD: new Sony CDR-W33 CD Recorder

2000-11-14 Thread Gary Davis
Hello all, I've been using Sony's new pro CD recorder, the CDR-W33, for the last few weeks, and it's a pretty sweet deck. Even better news, Sony has authorized us to "give it away free" if you buy their portable DE-456 CD player from us for $544. That's a backwards way of saying, you get bo

MD: Weird Things Happening....

2000-11-14 Thread Liquid Review
Hi! Strange things are afoot with my two Sony decks... I've just finished recording a stack of sound bites on my MZ-R37, and when I took it over to the MD5, it said that the MD was blank... and when I put it back in the R37, all the sound was still there My MD5's hardly been used... this