Re: MD: . nightingale pro6--user review

2001-08-21 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
Danny-K wrote: Hello- I tried looking for this card in various stores and websites and couldn't find it. Finally found someone selling them new on ebay and I got one. The place was in Canada and it costs me $60 including shipping. Not a bad price for a sound card with optical/digital

MD: PC link

2001-07-25 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
Where is a cheap souce for the PC link interface for the pc link with the 6 pin minidin connector on it? - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MD: The CMI8738 based sound cards

2001-07-06 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
Stuart Howlette wrote: Well, I have got 3 of these types of cards in the house (two are on motherboards, but ah well) so i'll do my best Its is 44.1khz, not 48 as outputted by the SB Live series Thats good :) Depends in what way you mean. If you are meaning monitoring whats coming in,

MD: The CMI8738 based sound cards

2001-06-30 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
There seems to be a lot of them up on ebay for very cheap. Before I splash out on one, I want a few details on them Is the optical output actually 44.1kHz (Unlike the SB lives) Basically, if I was to send a PCM .WAV file out the output looped to the input would it be bit for bit accurate?

Re: MD: References: D3460839CC35D411B441000629EE18E10A6C71@LEVIN

2001-01-22 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Welcome to the club :) Ive had one for quite

Re: MD: Subwoofer out

2001-01-06 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
Dan Scellen wrote: No, no. You missed my point. If I buy a stereo that has no subwoofer out, but has an analog out, will it sound as good (or the same) if I hook up a subwoofer to the analog out? I would probably get some cable that converts 2 RCA stereo jacks to 1 mono jack for the

MD: 80min MD : Have you had any problems ?

2000-08-22 Thread Malcolm
it is a momentry loss of audio, other times the playback will jump ahead a few minutes. Investigations continue ,,, I will be trying other brands of 80m over the next few days but any thoughts/experiences you have had would be interesting, thanks, Malcolm. Southwest England

MD: Info please on mic i/p and analog repro/copy

2000-08-01 Thread Malcolm
ncorde etc ) and the subsequent editing/copying/ compiling. Thanks for your time, Malcolm. SW England. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MD: USB to S/PDIF interface

2000-05-17 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === If the whole SPDIF frame is generated in the

MD: Mono versions of minidisc

2000-05-12 Thread Clements, Malcolm
In a recent magazine article mentioned that the capacity of Mini disc was 74 mins and 148 mins in Mono. Was this just stating the hypothetical capacity or is it possible to run a mindisc in mono. Secondly is the equipment available to achieve this? MalcolmClements [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MD: MD - CD Deck

2000-05-11 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
That seems a bit harsh, really. Just because you've got MD, you may have scenarios where you'd like to burn CD-Rs too. Perhaps if you had an MD (or other) head in your car, and a CD autochanger? Seems a little unfair to purport this being "plain stupid". Different from the norm, perhaps.

Re: MD: Difference between PCLK-MD1 PCLK-PX1?

2000-05-08 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
The PX 1 is for a couple of the small mini systems, they have a 6 pin DIN connector on them which is not control A1 (Control I its called if I recall correctly) the MD1 is control A1 - the same protocol used between most of the sony audio equipment - Original Message - From: Mohit

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
By that definition, ATRAC is not compression. But by our consensus, ATRAC is compression. We have decided that the comms definition is too narrow for our needs, so we use a different definition, one with a broader scope. Instead of an algorithmic transformation, compression is the process

Re: MD: CD/MP3/MD story

2000-04-26 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
Not to mention playing stuff with the pitch+speed set a couple of % up to fit more add's in, and turning the start of every song into an add for the station (Where there are no lyrics they talk) Lucilly there are some stations that dont do all that shit. http://www.95bfm.co.nz/ - Original

Re: MD: Ok Larry... $23 for 10 minidisc including shipping and ha ndli ng charge !!!

2000-04-13 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
aritas are like nz$25 for 5 at jaycar in auckland, and they seem fine. But cheaper is better of cource :) - Original Message - From: Richard Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 3:43 PM Subject: RE: MD: Ok Larry... $23 for 10 minidisc including

MD: Car MD holders

2000-02-19 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
Is there available something to fit in the other 1/2 of the double din hole in a car to hold minidiscs? Ive seen CD jewel case holders that go in there in the past, but I want MD :) - To stop getting this list send a message

Re: MD: SLINK cool application (Semi-OT)

2000-02-05 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With all the talk of cool applications for SLink, this came to mind. I have a huge database of CDs in CATraxx(awesome CD collection DB) and it would be really cool if I could control a few 300 disc changers from inside CATraxx. If you can put up with an access

Re: MD: OT: mp3 sound | Re: Digital Recording Quality

1999-11-03 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 11/2/99 12:08:25 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Even at 320bps you can hear the difference in MP3 much easier than you can on MD As can I. :-) One thing about mp3 that has gotten my curiosity up is whether or not

Re: MD: Can I use NiMh AA batteries in my Sony MZ-R37?

1999-10-22 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
Anthony Horan wrote: Now, a Melbourne electronics store called Jaycar (www.jaycar.com.au) has NiMh AA-sized batteries for sale for about $4.50 each, which to me looks like a good replacement for Sony's NiCd offering - larger capacity, less memory effect, etc. What I'm wondering, though, is:

Re: MD: [Fwd: Recording from minidisk to CD]

1999-10-15 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
"Jason K. Fritcher" wrote: The ISA bus is typically chained to the end of the PCI bus with a PCI-ISA bridge. Basically the ISA bus appears as just another device to the PCI bus. Anything that consumes all of the PCI buses bandwidth for a long period of time, or anything device that stays in

Re: MD: Found a CD that cannot be digitally recorded on MD

1999-10-13 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
Hannes Rohde wrote: That's true. Actually, it seems that quite a few commercially available cds are digitally clipped, at least that's what I read in one of those audiophile magazines... A lot of my cds seem to be that way - if I change the digital record level to even +0.1dB the over

Re: MD: [Fwd: Recording from minidisk to CD]

1999-10-10 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
Magic wrote: does anyone have an idea what could be going wrong with this set up? Yes. Your expert knows sod-all about the PCI bus and video cards. This is a common problem with PCI sound cards, and is actually caused by video card drivers. It also aflicts ISA cards. The video card

Re: MD: RF Modulators

1999-10-02 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
"Jeffrey D. Scorsone" wrote: Yes, you can plug into either headphone or line out (if it's an option on your md player). However, there has been considerable talk on this list about bad experiences with these devices. Most of them seem to suffer from "drift". The digitaly tuned variety

Re: MD: 9999999 Re: Y2K compliance Hoax

1999-09-08 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
"J. Coon" wrote: Well, tomorrow is also a big day. They day of the nines card. I remember using them to signify EOF or End Of File. So if your computer programs stop tomorrow you will know why. So far all is ok here, but its only been 25 min's.. -- Richard

Re: MD: mz r37 crashing and burning

1999-08-15 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
moss wrote: but, as an update, the stupid thing seems to be working now... i must have tried for almost twenty mins last night, nothing worked... let it 'sleep' for a night, came back to it, and it's as if nothing happened The fact it has made grating noises means that all is not well.

Re: MD: CD-ROM with Digital out

1999-08-11 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
Marc SPARC wrote: you need this very simple circuit: http://www.stack.nl/~leon/spdif/index.html I have just connected the output of my creative DVDrom to an RCA plug and it works great.. Why does it stall? a very scratched disc? causes the computer to hang? try a better OS...I'd suggest

Re: MD: bettery life, etc.

1999-08-01 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
Tony Antoniou wrote: That's because Motorola digital phones just plain out suck. 3#-) Ahh.. But its not a digital one :) - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MD: New lower price for Sharp 702 at Shopping.com

1999-07-31 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
Eric Woudenberg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't know if this is the correct address to send this, but Shopping.com has lowered the price for the Sharp 702 Minidisc. They were selling it for $200, with a $50 rebate from Sharp (bringing the price to $150). Well, Shopping.com is now