I have just bought the same unit as my first venture into the world of
minidisc. I have been really happy with it so far on SP and on LP2 but I
haven't tried the LP4 yet!
The worst thing I have found is recording stuff - a friend at work
happens
to have his home computer in at the moment so I
You really need to use the same DAC and line amplifier to compare
these two sources. Is it possible to try this experiment again with
the CD signal being routed through the MD recorder while the MD unit
is in REC-PAUSE (i.e. monitor) mode? Ideally you'd take a digital
signal from the CD. This
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I am not
impressed. Xitel today offers no advantage over an analog connection
No D/A and A/D I would've thought..
This is a false pseudo-advantage. My analog-connected tests between my
portable and home deck proved that lossy compression is vastly more important
than A/D and D/A
| Why should I have to title my MD tracks when the titles have already been
| entered and uploaded by someone else in CDDB?
1. The tracks on the MD may not be exactly the set and sequence of an album
listed on the CDDB.
2. The tracks may not yet be listed in the CDDB.
3. The person who
5 MP3 CD players suggest their own immediate obsolescence.
I need to test MDLP2 to better characterize degrees of lossy compression and
compare ATRAC to MP3 artifacts. It was interesting to see my girlfriend
uncritically accept the marketing claims of cramming a bunch of albums onto a
single
When I listed reasons I wouldn't want titles from the CDDB copied
automatically to my MDs, Michael Hoffman added,
| The titles shown on the CD case may even be wrong and mislead the typist.
| I have a couple CDs like this.
So have I. It just goes to show that even when you use an MD for a
Sony MDR-EX70SL NUDE EX earbuds
http://www.minidisco.com/minispecs/sonymdrex70sl.html
See also text at
http://www.minidisco.com/miniordercool.html
Do the ~$60 Sony Nude EX earbuds sound good?
Does it have Y cable, or asymmetric behind-the-neck cable?
Is the Japanese version different (short
The 5 MP3 CD player will be very quickly eclipsed by the variant which it
inadvertantly suggests: a 3 MP3 CD player, which has the ability to store two
40-minute hi-fi 256 Kbps MP3 albums. 80 minutes of music per 3 CDR is
*plenty* density. Cramming more on is not a goal at all, compared to
WHAT ABOUT CDDB? Your MD keyboarding solution can't take advantage of it.
With the music I listen to, CDDB rarely works properly. I have yet to even
use
the CDDB features. And as you rave about in your other posts, I have *NEVER*
traded
MD or MP3's with people. Almost everything you say is
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Your solution is irrelevant for the many people without a keyboard
input for their deck. My MD home deck is typical in that it has no
keyboard input. All MP3 computers inherently have keyboard input
*and* full CDDB utilization, which I mentioned but you
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I'll take that challenge any day ;) I think you need to specify what you
mean by critical headphone listening -- what headphones? What amps? What
playback sources?
A laptop PC with good sound capability, $100 headphones, using a .wav
vs. mp3 of the wav,
I'll intersperse my comments below.
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this would have a lot more to do with the software playing the mp3 than the atrac
compression its self.
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I have been surprised how good such MP3-then-ATRAC sounds on MiniDisc -- this
says alot about how good ATRAC is, that it can re-compress good 224 Kbps MP3s
and still sound very nearly
wouldn't this be dependant on the label that the arist used and the contract they got
from that label?
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When I buy a CD (with only $0.25 going to the artist, by the way)
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Of course, but it's still probably a high average. :)
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WHAT ABOUT CDDB? Your MD keyboarding solution can't take advantage of it.
You have to type titles yet again for every copy of the MD you produce. I
don't even have to
MCDEF WROTE
Well, you're wrong -- the difference is not that the CD player is superior.
While I do have some very nice CD equipment, one of my blind tests was
between a Optimus portable CD player -- one that cost $129.99 in 1994 -- and
an MZ-R50, one of the best MD portables ever made.
I've recently had a look at some pictures of the MZ-R909 (on the Yahoo!
MiniDisc Club http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/minidiscclub), and I dont know
whether its just some mocked up photos of a real product, or the whole thing
is mocked up, simply because on the pictures, the remote is in the same
This topic has been banging on for long enough, and something very important
needs to be said.
MP3 is MP3, ATRAC is ATRAC, why are people trying to change this. ATRAC and
MiniDiscs have their advantages over MP3 (more dedicated towards audio, as
it is an audio based format), MP3 has advantages
Steve wrote:
Greetings,
These are a y-cable
it is a short-cord
and comes with 3 ear gaskets
they do get dirty and I would think all products do
they are easy to insert
and the bass treble and mid response is great.
Thanks!
Steve K.
Minidisco Customer Support
sales at minidisco dot com
1434
My tests predict that if your gear is decently good, you'd find that MD
sounds the same as the CD to your friends in critical headphone tests, and
that 256 or 320 Kbps MP3s would also have that same potential. Your friends
could not
Highly doubtful. If he is using Seinnheiser headphones or
las [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually the argument about the merits of the MZ-R50 vs the Sharp
model that was current at the time, was at times quite heated. There
were thread after thread here from the two camps. Many people felt
that the Sharp had superior sound (especially with regard to
Michael Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sony MDR-EX70SL NUDE EX earbuds
There are several models of the EX70 line. I know of at least two LPs
(longer cord), one with 2 tips, one with three, and the same for the SLs
(short cord).
The general consensus among headphone geeks is that the
Are there players besides the expensive Sony 900 that have independently
adjustable bass and treble, or even more adjustable equalization?
I'm actually interested in all portable players.
o My CD player with 3-band EQ and non-wimpy output Rocks.
o The Rio Volt has EQ but it's disconnected
macdef wrote:
But that had nothing to do with the D/A converters in each unit. It had to
do with the EQ of the headphone jacks. Sony headphone jacks are EQ'd to have
a flatter response, while Sharp headphone jacks are EQ'd to be warmer,
which includes a bit more bass/upper-bass. But those
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