Re: MD: Circuit City Responds

2000-04-11 Thread Matt White
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Dan Frakes wrote: > That's what I meant by "it's still a cassette, though" I'll take > MD over cassette any day of the week for any purpose. I'll take MD over > CD for anything portable. Just so no one doubts my passion for MD ;-) I > was just pointing out that the asser

Re: MD: Re: Circuit City Responds

2000-04-11 Thread Matt White
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Dan Frakes wrote: > The basics of my relatively modest home stereo, averaging seven years old > (it was bought one piece at a time), are the following: $200 speaker > system (PSB), $300 amp (NAD), $250 CD player (NAD). That's a $750 system > -- not a Circuit City shelf s

Re: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light!

2000-04-03 Thread Matt White
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > this can be a good thing or bad thing. > true, more of the quote "little ones" will have discovered the minidisc, but > the price on minidisc will probably go up due to the popular demand. No, prices would go down due to economy of scale. Prices

Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-28 Thread Matt White
On 28 Feb 2000, Stainless Steel Rat wrote: > * Matt White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 28 Feb 2000 > 22.05, actually, due to the phenomenon known as "aliasing". Right, however CD are still limited to 20kHz at pressing. > DVD-Video's audio formats, dts and

RE: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-28 Thread Matt White
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Simon Barnes wrote: > This seems to be a matter of belief. I don't believe it, but then I'm an > Electronic Engineer, and therefore hopelessly blinkered. Okay, then here's the technical reason: CDs are sampled at an insufficient rate to ensure proper reproduction. CDs are

Re: MD: MP3 -- Am I the only one that hates it so?

2000-01-24 Thread Matt White
I think you make a very valid point that should be made in the "Will MD Survive?" thread as well. Namely that the majority of the world does not want to use their computer for a stereo or otherwise rely upon their computer for everything. Digressing from your post a bit, I think what MD prop

Re: MD: MD and Creative Soundblaster Platinum

2000-01-06 Thread Matt White
Alan: I have the SBLive Platinum too. The problem you seem to be having seems more software related than hardare related. What you appear to be trying to do is transfer sound over SPDIF rather than the data connection. This is not necessarily what you want to do. What I would suggest is that