MD: Koss SportaPro @ Circuit City $19.95

2001-03-06 Thread Timothy Stockman
Just stopped by Circuit City and got a pair of Koss SportaPro headphones. These are some of the best sounding headphones for $20! They are WAY above anything else I've heard at this price. For purists, they are a touch "heavy" in the bass (probably not a bad thing for many listening environment

Re: MD: A (theoretical) good thing about End Search

2001-03-06 Thread Taky Cheung
I still believe the End Search is the dumbest feature (as well as AVLS). It's not a tape device. why do I need it? It's in my sony DV Camcorder that it will find the end point of the tape. Since it's digital, I usually reuse my tape. The End Search button once again is useless. Finally, the End

Re: MD: A (theoretical) good thing about End Search

2001-03-06 Thread Dan Scellen
> No, it doesn't. On a Sharp portable, which has automatic end searching, you > can do the exact same thing; just insert a full disc, press PAUSE to make it > pause at the start of the prewritten track 1, and then go into record. It > will overwrite just the same as a Sony portable does if you

MD: Portable MD recorder advice, please.

2001-03-06 Thread Posgroup
I have been using a Sony MZ-R30 since it was released for recording on-location material for radio commercials. Using a Sony one-point stereo microphone, I have had, and continue to have, excellent results. I am thinking of buying a new recorder and I am a little confused by the new models.

Re: MD: A (theoretical) good thing about End Search

2001-03-06 Thread dattier
Steve Corey wrote, | If you record one track on a MD all the way through, then you have a TOC | that spans the whole disc. Record a few discs like that. | | Now go to a show and start recording with one of those discs. At about | 60 min into the show, you realize the band is in one of those e

Re: MD: Cheap soundcard for MD

2001-03-06 Thread Taky Cheung
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === I'm using that card (WinFast 4XSound). I bought

Re: MD: Cheap soundcard for MD

2001-03-06 Thread Chris Smart
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Wow! That sounds great! I need a card like tha

Re: MD: April 1st approaching

2001-03-06 Thread Dan Scellen
I'd love a PDA with MD as its storage medium. It's really quite a good idea. From: Eric Woudenberg, Minidisc.org Editor > I heard from a friend inside Sony Electronics US that they nearly went > through the roof the day they saw it. Sony was busy working on their > first PDA at the time (it's n

MD: A (theoretical) good thing about End Search WAS: Beginning at the beginning....

2001-03-06 Thread Steve Corey
"J. Coon" wrote: > PARAMOUNT TO EVERYTHING ALWAYS PRESS "END SEARCH" BEFORE YOU RECORD > ANYTHING. ... > I don't know why Sony > was so FOOLISH as to set up their portable recorders that way. Someone > at Sony should be taken out and shot... or at least severely > chastised. There is

Re: MD: audio and data CDRs

2001-03-06 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* "J. Coon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 | What does "is" mean? | If I have two pieces of paper that are identical and I write hello on | one of them, it is physically different Right, but your analogy is flawed in that data CD-R and audio CD-R are not identical pieces of pa

MD: Selling Hoontech Card w/ Optical output

2001-03-06 Thread Glenn Stasse
Greetings, There's been lots of questions to the list over the years about how to provide an optical S/PDIF connection from a PC to a MiniDisc. Here's one answer: I'm selling my Hoontech ST128 DDMA PCI card w/ optical bracket. It works great under Win98. It's supported under 95, ME , NT4, and Li

RE: MD: audio and data CDRs

2001-03-06 Thread Tony Antoniou
Now we're getting into semantics. Nevertheless, yes - conventional data CD's are different to Audio CD's thanks to that difference in the pregrooves that identifies the type of CD to the equipment being used. So are they PHYSICALLY different? In my opinion, yes, from a data standpoint. But that'

Re: MD: audio and data CDRs

2001-03-06 Thread J. Coon
What does "is" mean? If I have two pieces of paper that are identical and I write hello on one of them, it is physically different [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > When Brent Harding asked, > > > Or are the disks physically different? > > Michael Schuster answered, > > | They are physic