Re: MD: A question for Mac MD users

2001-10-17 Thread Bob
sentation uses a fixed rate, 48khz. Thus when you input the usual 44.1 it's converted to 48, and if you select 44.1 out it's converted back to 44.1. The conversion is inexact and the result isn't equal to the input. - - Original Message - From: "Bob" <[EMAIL

re: MD: A question for Mac MD users

2001-10-15 Thread Bob
>From: macdef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I see you found the Delta card. The other option is the Mac SoundBlaster >Live. You can get an inexpensive daughtercard for the SBL that adds optical >and coax out. Does this edition suffer from the traditional SoundBlaster resampling flaw? (POS SBs resample t

Re: MD: about NetMD, can it do SP? -- And: NetMD upload path

2001-09-17 Thread Bob
>"Eric Woudenberg, Minidisc.org Editor" >And given that OpenMG Jukebox 2.1 already supports .WAV, .WMA and .MP3 >download (via an internal transcoding to ATRAC3 step) I think NetMD >will be very interesting after all. Interesting to Windows users, but apparently useless to Linux/MacOS/etc users.

Re: MD: Help w/MD cases?

2001-07-20 Thread Bob Triani
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Re: MD: AudioTron at Best Buy for Just $149

2001-07-10 Thread Bob
>Best Buy has reduced the price of its Turtle Beach AudioTron digital music receiver Alas, mention of Real Media support is conspicuously absent -- for better or worse, a fair amount of internet content is still Real-only. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get pe

Re: MD: Recording from SACD

2001-02-22 Thread Bob Willcox
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 05:14:21PM -0500, las wrote: > > Bob Willcox wrote: > > > You can record from a SACD in analog only. The current crop of SACD > > players don't have digital output (when playing SACDs). (May never, > > given the recording industri

MD: Size of WAV files from decoded MP3 files

2001-02-20 Thread Bob Norton
"David W. Tamkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Now, I am aware that converting an MP3 back into a .wav file produces a >VERY >large file similar in size, if not exactly the same size as the original >.wav file. But I was under the impression that this was accomplished by use >of an interpolative

Re: MD: Recording from SACD

2001-02-17 Thread Bob Willcox
D players don't have digital output (when playing SACDs). (May never, given the recording industries copyright fears.) They would require a converter to convert the DSD data stream into PCM in order to record on a PCM device (such as MD). Bob -- Bob Willcox The reason we co

Re: MD: what is an SACD?

2001-02-17 Thread Bob Willcox
ct Disc. It's a new high bitrate (24 bit word > lengths) CD format developed by Sony. No, DSD does not use PCM encoded. Its a single bit encoding at 2.8224 MHz. Consequently it doesn't have a "word" length. It can, though, be easily converted into any of the common PCM f

Re: MD: what is an SACD?

2001-02-17 Thread Bob Willcox
to me than HDCDs, too!). SACDs > are a totally different animal, they don't use PCM, but rather a technique > known as Direct Stream Digital. The frequency they work at is 1MHz. I believe the sampling frequency of DSD is 2.88224 MHz (64 * 44.1KHz). Bob -- Bob Willcox

Re: MD: Subwoofer out

2001-01-10 Thread Bob Willcox
our amp and wallet can support it). I could definitely tell the difference when I switched from a single mono subwoofer to two subwoofer's driven in stereo on my main system. The feeling I got was one of overall better bass balance in the room. Bob -- Bob Willcox There's a

Re: MD: SACD? Any chance for survival?

2000-12-15 Thread Bob Willcox
think I pay closer attention to sound when not distracted by video). I currently own a Sony SCD-1 SACD player and about 40 SACD's and, overall, have been very pleased with SACD. Some of the discs I own are truely superb sounding. Bob -- Bob Willcox

Re: MD: Yamaha MD components??

2000-12-15 Thread Bob Willcox
for the most part no longer in service. Bob -- Bob Willcox Living your life is a task so difficult, [EMAIL PROTECTED] it has never been attempted before. Austin, TX -- anonymous ---

Re: MD: SACD? Any chance for survival?

2000-12-05 Thread Bob Willcox
27;t hear or don't care about the difference between MP3 and CD, let alone CD and SACD (just look at MP3 popularity). Sigh... Bob > > Dave > > - Original Message - > From: "Rodney Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

RE: MD: headphones and airplanes

2000-08-29 Thread Bob Denton
Get the Sony noise canceling phones, either the fold up or ear bud style. Makes all the difference!! They come with an adaptor so you can plug into the plane's audio system. The bud style are more effective but the over ear are comfortable for long trips. -Original Message- From: Matthew

Re: MD: Whats Up With Circuit City?

2000-04-14 Thread Bob Willcox
hy the selection of MD equipment in their stores is > so miniscule (or non-existent in the case of the local CC). But then I _never_ go into Circuit City anymore either... Bob -- Bob Willcox Shaw's Principle: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Build a system that even a f

Re: MD: Circuit City Responds

2000-04-14 Thread Bob Willcox
Dragon deck with $25 > blanks. I guarantee you'll hear a tape that sounds better than MD. As the long-time owner of a Dragon, I disagree with this statement. > > Of course, it's still a cassette, though ;-) And suffers severly for it! -- Bob Willcox Shaw's

Re: MD: MXD-D3 Read Errors

1999-12-24 Thread Bob Willcox
roduct AGAIN!! My MXD-D3 plays discs from my other players (JA-50ES, JA-20ES, JB-930, JB-920, JE-630, etc.) Just fine. I'd take your MXD-D3 back for (yet another) relpacement. Bob -- Bob Willcox Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MD: MXD-D3 and CD-TEXT from recorded CDRs

1999-12-11 Thread Bob Willcox
program to tell it to allow copying of the CD-TEXT on the recorded CDR? BTW, I am using cdrdao version 1.1.3 running on a FreeBSD 3.3-stable system. My CD recorder is a Sony CDU948S. Thanks, Bob -- Bob Willcox Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: MD: Looking for the right MD Deck.

1999-12-03 Thread Bob Willcox
s, I'd go to Radio Shack and get an analog A-B > switcher for stereo switching. > > If you want multiple digital inputs, Sony has them. My JB920 has 2 coax > digital and 1 optical digital inputs. It also has optical and coax > digital outputs. Actually, the JB920 (US version, an

Re: MD: RE:Sony Dropping MD

1999-10-29 Thread Bob Willcox
27;ll find that price has always been the major factor. I am beginning to doubt that it will ever happen in the computer industry with disk drives (IBM recently announced a 72GB disk!). The audio industry may go the same way. Bob -- Bob Willcox Don't tell me that worr

Re: MD: CD-R / CD-RW

1999-10-29 Thread Bob Willcox
This makes about as much sense to me as most clueless repairmen do. I really don't see how a scratched disc would damage a CD player. There is no contact with the disc (except in the center where it is clamped). Bob On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 11:19:57PM -0400, J. Coon wrote: > > T

Re: MD: Pure marketing hype from Sony

1999-10-01 Thread Bob Willcox
er judgement, I will continue this thread anyway. :-) I too, when younger, could hear fly-back transformers (they're just under 16KHz) as well as the ultra-sonic motion sensers in jewelry stores. Alas, that was over 30 years ago now and I am no longer bothered by such sounds. :-( Bob -- Bo

Re: MD: MDS-JB920 Disc Error msg on insertion of MD

1999-09-27 Thread Bob Willcox
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 04:59:40PM +0100, Scott, Tony wrote: > > Bob, > > On [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Willcox[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > > I have a new Sony MDS-JB920 that occasionally will spit out a just > > inserted disc with a C13 Disc Error message (happ

Re: MD: Pure marketing hype from Sony

1999-09-27 Thread Bob Willcox
or-free signal to decompress. In fact, I would guess that errors that made it through would royally screw up the decompression. Also, wouldn't surprise me that they were forced to make the error correction more robust than audio CD's partly (at least) for this reason. (Also, it s

MD: MDS-JB920 Disc Error msg on insertion of MD

1999-09-27 Thread Bob Denton
It is a known problem and it happened on my new 920. I swapped it for a 930. cya - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MD: Pure marketing hype from Sony

1999-09-27 Thread Bob Willcox
am not familiar with the MD error correction system, but I'm quite certain that CDs do this as well as stated above (though perhaps not as well as MD, afterall, MD is about a 10-year new technology). Bob -- Bob Willcox Don't tell me that worry doesn't do

MD: David Karon - www.planetminidisc.com

1999-09-15 Thread Bob Denton
ed the difference to my credit card. I was extremely pleased with both the pre and post service of this company and heartily recommend them! Cu Bob Denton Delray Beach, FL - To stop getting this list send a message containing just th

MD: 930 at Brands Mart

1999-09-08 Thread Bob Denton
I picked up a 920 at Brands Mart for $199, but it was DOA so I returned it. They did not have any more so they credited my cc. I decided to find out when the 930 was due in, and they actually had them in stock at $318 but they weren't on the floor. cu ---

RE: MD: Airborne MiniDisc's? Laser gyros & fuel pumps un-debunked

1999-09-02 Thread Bob Denton
a CD player. The other issue is that it may not be laser light at all, but certain frequencies or types of RF that are affecting these systems. Clearly there is no reason an airline would invest time, effort and money to enforce a ban on CDs without some justification. Cya Bob Denton De

RE: MD: Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones

1999-09-01 Thread Bob Denton
I also bought the phones in Japan and mine fit fine. -Original Message- From: LaPedis, Ron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 11:51 AM Subject:RE: MD: Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones I have a pair of the over-the-head model that I bought in Japan be

MD: FW: Airborne MiniDisc's? Did we ever put together a list?

1999-08-30 Thread Bob Denton
't suspect it was bs. Cya Bob Denton Delray Beach, FL 00 - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]