RE: MD: External MD Power Supply for 722

2000-08-04 Thread Martin Lazak
Larry Sherry wrote: I'm not sure if you are stating that the external power adapter that comes with the Sharps have special circuitry in them. But as far as I can tell they are cheap bricks made in China. Not necessarily. My European MD-MS200 came with a very nice, small, light, regulated

RE: MD: Cheap, playback only portable....

2000-03-24 Thread Martin Lazak
Hi Peter, I'll take Sony or Sharp ;), anyone got a recommendation for a smallish cheap playback only model? I don't know if it's available in the UK, but I can recommend the Sharp MD-S321. It has the slot-in mechanism, a nice backlit remote, Li-Ion battery (the specs say 19h playback with the

RE: MD: Need to find a TOSLINK transmitter (UK only)

1999-11-08 Thread Martin Lazak
John Graham wrote: In the Maplins catalogue page 786 they advertise a "Toshiba TORX176", order code SV10L, 4.99 each incl VAT. The diagram looks the same as the TOTX176, I think it's a typo. No, be careful, those are different things. TO*R*X is a *R*eciever, TO*T*X is a *T*ransmitter. Bye

RE: MD: Analog recording levels for vinyl?

1999-10-17 Thread Martin Lazak
Hi Rick, A user-settable track marking threshold would be massively cool. Right. Sony has this on their modern ES decks, but not on anything else, AFAIK. My JB920 also has this. You can set the threshold in steps of 2dB between -72bB and 0dB (I have no idea why anyone would need a

RE: MD: Sony MDX-C670RDS

1999-09-15 Thread Martin Lazak
Chris Taylor wrote: Has anybody got a Sony MDX-C670RDS (fairly old now, car MD player) or access to a manual for one of these? Mine has seems to be getting a lot of disc's stuck lately and I'm looking for any information on how I can force it to reset itself and spit the disc out.