Simon Gardner wrote:
Hi Leo,
My problem is that my Sony CD megachanger has a pretty bad DAC and sounds
a lot better when connected to my Amp via an optical cable. If I get an MD
deck I want to connect the CD changer to it in the same way to get
digital-quality MD copies, but the changer
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
* "J. Coon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 10 Jun 2000
| A speaker set would be much cheaper. You can get a CD carrying case,
| put the MD and Speakers in it to make it easier to carry.
Cambridge Soundworks has a spiffy portable speaker set: two small
satellites,
Paul Ratazzi wrote:
45 minutes later, after being escorted like a criminal through the checkout
line, I was back down to the car install bay.
This is why my first purchase from Best Buys (sic) is also my last.
Impulse bought a MD player for the wifey. After waiting for the
greasy,
Kheops GlassArt wrote:
I said to a lot of people that my goal was not to make money with minidisc
and it's true... The reason I started this company was because I was not
able to buy for myself blanks minidiscs in small quantity at good price.
Misguided altruism mixed in with some vague
"J. Coon" wrote:
Neon John wrote:
Yup. I haven't said anything because I'm new to the list and I
don't know its rules regarding spamming. \
The topic was Minidisc related. If he had been selling life insurance,
or promoting a sex site, that would be spam.
Most mailing li
. Only reason I noticed it was the MD slot
right there in the front of the thing. (I meant to say BO genre
below. You know, "Bang Oain't gonna even try to spell that
one. Seems like trying to clone that look is k00l these days.)
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Neon John wrote:
hap
happened to be in the local Sam's Club tonite and took a detour
through the meager A/V section. Lo and behold, there on the shelf
was a Sony all-in-on mini-HiFi (of the BE genre) system that had a
MD slot! Zounds! Could the discs be far behind?
John
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John De Armond
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Eric Woudenberg wrote:
Perhaps one could argue that the MZ-R90 is smaller and shifts into a
more skip prone position in my pocket ... but I think a more likely
answer is that the MZ-R90 sacrifices some shock resistance for battery
life.
Rick
Take yer headphones off!! :-)
And then
Marc wrote:
on 5/13/00 2:54 PM, Neon John at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use my 90 as much for time shifting radio talk shows
as I do listening to music. I need the ability to quickly nuke
commercial breaks. With the 90 in my shirt pocket, I can simply
finger the key through
Kheops GlassArt wrote:
Best buy don't succeed on selling MD player and recorder... I've asked a lot
of store and they told me, mostly for portable, than customer came to best
buy or circuit city to try the md unit and don't bought them to the store
but online...
Both Best Buy and Circuit
Neon John wrote:
Mostly. My mom deals in antique music boxes and record players so
occasionally I'll find a cylinder that I like that's not worn out.
Problem is getting a good reproduction. there's a guy on the
phonograph web ring who has built a fiber optic laser pickup that
can reach
Marc wrote:
... some of the music I download
off the Internet... I've
previously purchased on vinyl, 8-track, cassette and CD. Some even
on shellac.
I trust you are talking flat, not cylindrical shellac?
Mostly. My mom deals in antique music boxes and record players so
Marc wrote:
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I thought R-90 had a hold
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
Only Sony portable recorders have this misfeature. Recorders other than
Sony portables (and this includes Sony home decks) assume that you want to
append new recordings instead of overwriting existing recordings, unless
you tell the recorder otherwise.
In
Luca wrote:
Da: Mike Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Doesn't look bad...now, if possible, does anyone know of a vendor in the
US? I'm still no good at converting from British Pounds to US dollars.
G
Well, it's not so tough: 1GBP is around $1.5... ^__^
And for the exact answer,
Billy Hetherington wrote:
"The Rio and Sony Stick are toys. With the cost of the memory cards needed
for them, you can't build up a library of albums..."
I 100% agree with this point. The flash memory for MP3 devices
restricts you from making a library. But then again, this is
"J. Coon" wrote:
A much bigger beef with the MZ-R90 in this area is how easily the
"record" button is operated. I've bumped it into record mode a
couple of times now while carrying the unit in my pants pocket.
And if they didn't have the stupid END SEARCH button, you wouldn't loose
Eric Woudenberg wrote:
"Simon Gardner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If it's just for recording from laptop to MD
(for MP3s, etc) then the Xitel MDPort is significantly cheaper at $60, but
works in analogue - though that's likely to be higher quality than the sound
chipset in your
My $0.02 worth
I'm new to MD. I re-discovered the format only as the result of the
MP3 revolution. I listened to and didn't like the portable MD3
players. And I surely didn't like the $100 price of flash cards.
Nonetheless, I was in a Best Buys to buy a player when I just
happened to
I'm looking for some inexpensive battery powered amplified speakers
to use with my MD player. I don't need a high powered rig - just
something to play background music in my RV. I want a single piece
unit with both speakers in the same box. I had one of these oh, 10
years ago. Even had a
"J. Coon" wrote:
The average off the street taper, just wants to push a button and
record and not mess with the levels. That is one thing that makes the
Sonys atractive, except they messed up the concept with that darned End
Search button that will really give them a headache. WIth the
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
* "Norlin, Chris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 28 Apr 2000
| Not to quibble over details - but I think the notion that copying a CD to MD
| for personal use legal is based loosely on case law and not on "fair use".
Actually, it specifically falls under the AHRA
Hi guys. I was on here a few days ago asking about Sony players.
Well I did it, I went hog-wild. I just received from Minidisco an
MZ-R90, a spare battery and an Xtel Storm Platinum optical output
sound card. I wasted most of the day playing with this stuff. OK,
I'm won over. For once my
Matt Wall wrote:
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as for the track
Sean Harding wrote:
On Tue Apr 18 at 02:44:26 AM, Neon John wrote:
Any idea where go buy one and what the model is? Now that I'm back
in BF egypt, I'd rather buy online if possible.
There's more than one. I believe they all have "PC/IF" in the model number
(for "
Hi, new to the list.
I was waltzing through the Knoxville, TN Best Buys today when my eye
caught an apparently new player/recorder. It looked like the Sony
MZ-R55 (I know it had "55" in the name). What caught my eye was the
Best Buys blurb that said that it could transfer MP3 files via a USB
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