Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
It is certification. But is is also specifications. There is a separate
setting on my THX receiver. I think this setting sets a certain EQ. Now this
EQ can be set (if you know what it is) by the use of any equilizer. It is not
unique to THX but must exist in
"Francisco J. Huerta" wrote:
Home THX Controller - includes multi-channel circuitry and the necessary
electronic enhancements (Re-equalizationT, Timbre MatchingT, and
DecorrelationT, and more) to successfully render the film sound experience
in a home.
He's right about this Ratman even
Don Capps wrote:
Funny isn't it? Remember all that "it's just ones and zeros" and "bits is
bits" bullshit that Phillips/Sony were putting out in the early days of
digital? If it was "perfect sound" then, as they so loudly touted, then why
have they spend SO damned much money on improving it
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
None of which is unique to THX-certified equipment.
Individually. But the combination is what gives it a uniqueness.
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Dan Scellen wrote:
When I went to the same Best Buy a couple months ago to see about buying an
MD minisystem, the salesperson tried to convince me that MD was dead. He
said that it has no advantages over any other format. How can we expect MD
to become mainstream like this? If I didn't
d.
The big improvement in Pro logic was the steering of the center channel. But
like SQ you still only have 4 channels because the right and left rear carry the
exact same information.
LAS
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Matthew Bullis wrote:
I noticed this as a format that you can buy on CDNow.com for some albums.
What is this format?
Thanks a lot.
Matthew
Here's some information on the subject:
http://www.dvd-audio.co.uk/dvda_sacd.html
http://www.dvd-audio.co.uk/dvda_sacd.html
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
Exactly. The trick is to use phase inversion to matrix multiple audio
tracks together. Which sounds (heh) like it shouldn't work, but it does
when done right.
Many years ago before I owned a Pro logic receiver, I took the right + from the
RT front speaker and
jgvp wrote:
All my McIntosh components are THX approved; however, a not too inexpensive
THX module is required to be incorporated into the Control Preamplifier in
order to complete the design and quality control for theatre sound
reproduction. I have yet to purchase and have this module
Don Capps wrote:
Does anyone know of a MD Recorder that has a digital out (optical or spdif
or what-have-you) other than the rather pricey HHB Portadisc professional
recorder? Any?
Since the first Sony MZ-1 portable, they don't make them.
CD players are not problem. But for reasons I
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How does it stack up against HCDC CDs?
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Sorry that's HDCD CDs.
Mario Diaz wrote:
Don Capps wrote:
They're both very good...very comparable to each other. It's just another in
the long line of format wars Larry. Who knows which will be left standing
when the dust settles?
Buddhists have the right idea. They don't put too much importance on material
things. That's one
Don Capps wrote:
The new technology is just around the
corner. And computers? Even worse! Oi vay!
Don C12
Some how I have managed too accept that computers price per new features ratio
drop every day. I tell everyone that asks me what to buy, not to feel bad when
in a few months they will
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Originally, Pro-logic was exclusive to movie theaters.
Actually Dolby Surround preceeded Pro-logic. Dolby Pro-logic is an
improvement over "plain" Dolby Surround in that it added stearing logic to
increase the separation between the channels (especially important
Donald Person wrote:
Well everyone -- I think we're fighting a losing battle.
This isn't a fight. Who cares if the rest of the people in this country are
buying?
As long as MD is big in Japan and there is an internet, there will always be a
source of MD gear and blanks at competitive
This is a little off topic (so what else is new?). I'm interested in
your opinions of the quality of DTS and THX.
DTS (Digital Theater Sound) is Spielberg's standard and involves special
decoding as I am sure most of you know. While THX is belongs to
Lucasfilms and is a standard rather than
Gerard Naude wrote:
First off. MDLP is what long play was to home vcr's. Nobody ever raved about
it, but eventually we all ended up using it. Recording 8 hours of video on a
4 hour tape? Pretty cool. Same with MDLP, people want more music together
with less space. It will make it big,
Neil wrote:
I know you've alluded to it, but THX is just really a certification thing,
the soundtrack on DVDs will still be either DD or DTS (for the
foreseaable...). THX is just a certification of the equipment you use,
alluding to the quality and integrity of the kit.
Actually it is a
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If I pass the
I think that I wasn't clear in what I was asking. I was not asking why analog
looks better (film that is). What I was wondering is how they are able to copy
film to video and it still looks better then video?
In order to copy film to video, wouldn't there have to be some kind of device
that
Steve, I remember Dynaco. Didn't they come in kits that you built yourself (like
Heath Kit).
Part of what you are saying about tubes and analog is unquestionably true. But I
still have a Bogen tube amp. While they produced rich warm sound, tube amps
introduce unacceptable (by today's
Rodney Peterson wrote:
My time is too valuable to bother with make it yourself cable.
My suggestion doesn't involve "make it yourself cable". You purchase Radio
Shack's best 75 ohm cables with gold "F" connectors, You buy 2 F to RCA
adapters (I'm not sure if they are available gold plated)
OK, here's a dumb question. A DVD has digital information on it like a CD,
no?? If it does, why can't they tap directly into the digital video
output? HDTV is a digital TV. Are there special digital inputs so that if
you had a digital source you would not have to use the analog component
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The Ratman is right again. In fact the entire
Well if you bought anything from Mercata, like I have, keep your fingers
crossed that it does not break down for a while. They are going out of
business.
I have a feeling that "Iderive", which I believe is a related company may be
in the same shape. I have not been able to access their
The remotes that comes with most of the portables that I have seen have been
disappointing, plastic pieces of crap.
When I first got my Denon 70 (0r what ever it is called (a Sharp MS200 clone)
it did not work properly right out of the box. I up graded to a remote made by
sharp that had an LCD
"J. Coon" wrote:
I have recorded on my R30 and got a copy that was good enough to submit
for a CD compilation, and so have a lot of other people. I'm sure they
won't be able to do that with the LP mode.
Jim are you saying that based on actual double blind listening studies that
you
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
* Mike Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 05 Jan 2001
| Typically, it's just the bass signal...to my knowledge there's not much of
| a need for a stereo output to it.
That is correct, especially as it is actually a crossover of the L and R
channels. Stereo
Dan said:
Also, I was looking at the sharp MD-C2.
I own a Sharp MD-CD2. I am very happy with it once you accept it's
limitations. It is designed to be a complete all in one CD to MD copier.
There are no digital inputs or outputs (everything has to be done using the
Sharp's CD player (3 disc
I don't know much about the unit itself, but I have heard that Aiwa stopped
supporting MiniDisc technology in it's new products. I don't know what the
corporate climate is like at Aiwa, but you may find it difficult to get
support for the unit.
I know this is a great deal, but I've heard
Check ebay and sell the one that will get you the most money, probably the
Sony.
Larry
Dan Frakes wrote:
I have a Sony MZ-R50 in perfect condition and a Sharp MS-722 that is only
about 6 months old (also in perfect condition). I am planning on selling
one of them and getting an MR-R90
No. Don't ask me the technical reasons, I'll leave that for Jim Coon or
Ratman etc. All I know is that that I have tried and it does not charge
them properly.
Larry
KVE wrote:
Can I charge NiMH AA/AAA batteries in a NiCd charger? I thinking of
"upgrading" my NiCd's (which are getting old)
Hi. Now there is also head cleaner. Although the lens doesn't not touch the MD,
doesn't the head actually make contact?
"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
Matt Wall asked,
| why should you not use a md lens cleaner as a maintenance thing? i've never
| used one yet but am curious so
I'm sorry to hear of your decision to close your business. As someone who
once worked for a Web based company that was also forced to go out of
business, I understand what you are saying.
Best of luck,
Larry
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Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
Well, if you have a true line in on the other end, the impedance is high,
which causes the built-in amp to cut out. Then you set the volume to
maximum and you have a line out.
I think that you may have missed my point. The fact that it can match impedance
is
Matt Wall wrote:
where is this readily available software available from? url's anyone?
That's what I'd like to know!
Howard Chu wrote:
Now that there's readily available software for encoding music into
ATRAC3, has anyone used their MD DATA drive to write an MD DATA disc
that's
"J. Coon" wrote:
Is there a CD burner that will burn MP3 files and make an audio CD
without having to save the MP3 file as a WAV file first?
I'm not sure what you are asking. If you mean on a computer, this is a
software problem. I think that there are programs that will convert
MP3s on
Mike Burger wrote:
Sounds like he's been spewed at by someone who has no idea what they're
talking about.
I'd come back with "Have you ever actually listened to MD?" and then
place my headphones on his head.
Did you ever get the feeling that there is actually an "anti MD" faction in
"J. Coon" wrote:
and the
neat thing about it is it has an auxiliary input jack on the front
panel, where you can plug in a Minidisc player, or a one of those
walkman tape players.
Jim,
To the best of my knowledge, all Aiwa in dash units have AUX jacks. I have been
mentioning the Aiwa
"J. van de Griek" wrote:
You'll get double the time back through saving on reboots, powering off and
on, and reinstalling your OS.
But how do you run all of the Windows programs that you have?
I've heard that there are emulators, but do Windows programs run any faster
under them? Also,
James Jarvie wrote:
May I make another suggestion? What about the Sony
portable CD player with optical out? You could make
digital recordings from it, and not be replacing a
unit that you otherwise are happy with. The Sony CD
portable with optical out goes for about USD 139.00
here in
"J. van de Griek" wrote:
See, the problem in this situation is that the actual problem itself can be
anywhere in either the burner, the media, the player, or in a combination of
any of them...
Hopefully, more and more drives will start coming out with "burnproof"
technology, like the
JT wrote:
Neither of those are accurate. The *.cda files are a virtual
filesystem Windows 9x imposes on CDs. There are no files on am
audio CD, just 44.1KHz PCM audio data. The CD burning program
converts the waves to that data when it burns the CD.
No, I stated just what you mentioned
"J. van de Griek" wrote:
You didn;t see that noted because it's hogwash.
Burn your audio CD's as fast as you want, your CD player will still play
them at 1x speed, since that's what it's designed to do.
That's right. I wonder where Mike got that one from? I think that he has
either
Jeanmougin wrote:
I tought that when you burnt a CDR at speeds over 1x or 2x, u had more read
errors.
Not if your equipment can handle the speed.
Larry
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Nathan White wrote:
You need to convert your
audio files to *.cda (I think that's what it is) for CD players to be able
to read it. That's probably why you can only play it in your cd-rom.
Nate, I'm not sure if that is accurate. I believe that a CD player can also
read wave files (if
Alan Dowds wrote:
I agree. I'm a journalist, and I love to use my 702 for interviews and note
taking, but it's a pain to have to plug a mic in. Seems like in the past
even the cheapest recording tape machines always had at least a cheap mono
mic built-in. Surely it wouldn't take up much
Simon Mackay wrote:
Hi everyone!
Who remembers those cassette or 8-track tape players that were sold during
the 60s and 70s, which were designed to be mounted under the dashboard of a
car? A lot of these units didn't have a tuner and often played through a set
of speakers that were often
PrinceGaz wrote:
is there any disadvantage to
burning at 6x (the discs I have are rated for up to 8x burning) rather
than 4x?
I'd rather not go back to 2x burning but would a slightly slower than
max speed; 4x rather than 6x give better more readable discs and be
worth the extra six or so
JT wrote:
Which one should i buy?
Avoid the Xitel MDport-DG1. I tried it and it kept cutting in and out.
One minute I could see the red light the next is was gone again.
Larry
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James Jarvie wrote:
If you [...] plan to
Commun wrote:
The auto track-mark feature avalaible on digital connections is very useful
but there's a drawback sometimes. I bought the CD "The Corrs MTV Unplugged"
and I decided to make a copy of it on MiniDisc. The first copy was digital.
Nothing to say on sound quality but there was
"J. Coon" wrote:
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/news/535/?nl44
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/news/534/#body
The RIAA, and the Motion Picture Academy have always been happy when
they were giving a free hand to do what ever they damn please. To a
large extent, that's the way it should be. In the
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David, their warehouse is in PA. The bad
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
I think you are confusing dialect with slang.
No dialect. Slang is the use of a word that is not generally accepted by
scholars as a proper word. Dialect is the pronunciation and sometimes addition
of words into a language that make it different from the way
Bish Ashleigh wrote:
Larry -
you must be aware that the correct English spelling of 100 cm is one Metre.
A meter is an instrument that measures a variable. As we in England seem to
be the ones who originated the hash that eventually became English, 'twould
seem most fair if our spelling
I received my Sharp MD-C on Tuesday. I have it at my office and really haven't
had much time to "play" with it.
So far it appears that if you press the CD to MD button, it will copy CD #1 to MD
#1 and so forth. I don't think that it will continue to copy CD #1 to MD #2 if
MD #1 is full. At
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
One could say the same thing about metre, litre, gram, Newton, or any other
unit of measure that we use.
That may be true, but in the case of cps, we had something in place that was
descriptive. Just because we use non descriptive terms for many things does
not
Leon wrote:
Hi all,
Here's the replacement to the 831 (I think):
Some relatively new features:
- intro-scan if you're in LP2/4 mode, plays the first 5 seconds of each
track; there's still no program play;
First of all, do you read Japanese?? I went to the link and nothing was in
Yann Weber wrote:
I'm sure people with german sounding names will highly
appreciate such an intelligent remark. Especially regarding
Heinrich Hertz who was Jewish.
Well now there you have me. I did not know that and I am Jewish. I
guess that it was wrong of me to draw any conclusions from
"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
How do you figure that? 128-kbps MP3's take almost a meg per minute,
David, the problem is that Bruce is thinking in megs and computer files not
PCM. If the MD could store MP3 files and then further compress them through
ATRAC he would get the length of music that he
"J. Coon" wrote:
It is still used as shorthand, and it means Hertz now.
I don't the sound of it, sounds to Nazi to me.
Larry
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Bruce Preudhomme wrote:
Yes, you are both right! There is a lot I don't know about mini-disks and
haven't take the time to learn. I did assume that the data on mini-disks was
virtually uncompressed so that is why I mistakenly thought their capacity to
be the same as CDs. I should have thought
Bruce Preudhomme wrote:
Yes, you are both right! There is a lot I don't know about mini-disks and
haven't take the time to learn. I did assume that the data on mini-disks was
virtually uncompressed so that is why I mistakenly thought their capacity to
be the same as CDs. I should have thought
Aaron Prager wrote:
I just ordered a Sharp MD722 from Mercata.com. Although there is a tax
column in the invoice that was sent to me, the tax amount was listed as
0.00. New Mexico does have a sales tax, but, like every online merchant that
I have purchased from, no tax was charged.
Aaron
"J. van de Griek" wrote:
I doubt it will outperform my 1987 Porsche 911 Carrera (3.2l flat six)...
:-)))
Don't you remember that commercial for a small inexpensive car? I can't
remember which car it was but they say "We test our car against a blah blah
and we blew their doors off". Then
"J. Coon" wrote:
Hey, us engineers don't want just everyone to know what the stuff
means. WE go to school for that. If every bloke know what it meant we'd
be out of a job. G
I thought that only applies to lawyers G.
Larry
"J. Coon" wrote:
Hey Mercata has the Sharp 3 MD / 3 Cd, am fm tuner, tape cassette boom
box for $189 rihgt now.
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You must have caught the tail end. It's 7 AM EST and their gone.
Larry
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I would guess it had something to do with adhering to the international
standard units of measure. We were unwilling (or incapable) of converting
our use of miles to kilometers, but the engineering community was more
flexible than the public.
Now we have to get
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
Not like there is anything to convert. 1 Hertz = 1 cycle/second. They
just gave the unit of measurement a name (like Newton, Watt, etc).
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But it makes no sense to me to take something that is descriptive and give it a
name that tells you nothing. CPS means
After seeing the $185.00 price for the Sony MDX-D3, I went to read some
reviews.
The reviews were fine. Some poor schmuck paid $400.00 for a unit whose
list price is supposed to be $299, but what can I tell you.
It was the second review where something struck me. The reviewer stated
"The
Ian Horsey wrote:
Hello
I'd been worrying for a while about how incredibly quiet the mailing
list had become over the last three weeks as I had received no
messages! So I tried to post the one below and was told I wasn't a
member anymore! Is someone trying to tell me something??
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm extremely happy with my Guillemot MaxiSound Fortissimo card.
Only $50USD, and it came with an optical digital output. All I
needed to buy was the TOSLink cable and mini-adapter.
Where did you buy it? Is there a description of it on the net? Fifty dollars
Aileen Chen wrote:
I like my SoundBlaster Live! with the LiveDrive... got no real reason why,
but it is pretty reliable and it comes with the good Creative Labs name...
If I were ready to build a new system (that's the way I'm going to do it with
my next computer) I'd put a Sound Blaster
"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
The exception is certain CD-MD combo units that can copy from CD to MD at 2x
or even 4x; but if you're recording input from an external source,
David, do you know of any specific model that is on the market today that will
copy CDs to MD (in digital transfer) at a
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I think you are short
"J. Coon" wrote:
The problem, as I see it, is the manufactures want to keep producing
newer models, like the auto firms do. They should take some of the good
designs and keep producing it until they can produce it at costs
competitive with tape recorders. With all the mechanical krap in a
Simon Mackay wrote:
MD isn't just useful for music on the move (car, portable) but for
"presentation" applications. This is where audio is used as part of a
presentation or similar application. The buffer comes in handy on MD decks
equipped with auto-pause and fader; which brings MD into
"Cramb, Kevin" wrote:
I couldn't agree more, especially the protection aspect, my one year thinks
that MD's are the best toys and get scattered around the house. Try that
with ya shiney discs ;-)
With the exception of the data compression (OK bit wise reduction) that an MD
has which is a
Yesterday it occurred to me that all of this arguing about how close an
MD copy comes to the original CD misses the point.
MDs should not (in my humble opinion) be considered substitutes for
CDs. Unless you want constantly buy CDs only to make MD copies of
(since prerecorded MDs are rare) and
"J. Coon" wrote:
Jim I have this old, broken 486 75 notebook computer that I use every once in a blue
moon to check my ebay sales when my wife is on my computer. Nothing on it works. I
have to use an external monitor, a serial mouse, PS2 keyboard and a PC card modem to
get it to work at all.
When I bought my Sony MZ-1 in 1992 or something like that, it was by today's standards,
big and heavy. It had no remote, but it did have a numeric keypad and a DIGITAL
OPTICAL
OUTPUT!!!
Why did all of the manufactures universally discontinue including a digital optical
output on their
Don't through out your money on Sony batteries. Buy Rayovacs at Wal-Mart. A 4
pack cost about $10.
If your player allows you to recharge them in the unit, you will probably have
to strip about a half inch of the bottom of the label off of the battery. The
screw you Sony batteries usually set
Richard Lang wrote:
I don't see why you'd use non-rechargeables except in an emergency - once
you've spent the initial outlay (a charger and a few batteries) you're
basically running your MD walkman free of cost (at least until you've
charged and drained all your AAs 1-2000 times each!)
Peter Forest wrote:
We have them for $2.00 each only inside continental US...
Contact me at : [EMAIL PROTECTED] for me details about this...
o Minidisco has the best deal going for 80-min MD blanks at
[3]USD$2.09 per disc.
First off, let me start by saying except for this list and a
"J. Coon" wrote:
YOu have what for $2.00? I am confused.
Jim, put your reading glasses on and see what was included in his he
mail. I put a box around it:
We have them for $2.00 each only inside continental US...
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Peter Forest wrote:
Send me an email if you want to receive a rebate coup. by email since they
are banned here !!!
BANNED HERE? BY WHO??? THIS IS THE FIRST THAT I AM HEARING ABOUT
SOMETHING BEING BANNED!!!
ARE YOU SURE THEY ARE BANNED ON THE LIST??
Larry
Check out the FAQ on the MD community page. I believe it has nothing to do with
further compression (or more correctly bitwise reduction). The just lower the
bit rate.
If you go use Napster you will always see a bit rate listed for each song you
search for. The higher the number the larger
Tony Antoniou wrote:
So what is HiFi? Whatever appears to be of greatest fidelity to the
individual. THAT is HiFi. There is no ultimate answer.
Tony, this is one time that I have to disagree with you. It is only semantics
but your statement is incorrect. Don't confuse the terms fidelity
Tony Antoniou wrote:
So what is HiFi? Whatever appears to be of greatest fidelity to the
individual. THAT is HiFi. There is no ultimate answer.
Tony, this is one time that I have to disagree with you. It is only semantics
but your statement is incorrect. Don't confuse the terms "fidelity"
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"J. Coon" wrote:
Peter Forest wrote:
Now, it's a great deal to buy from Mercata (www.mercata.com)
If enough people e mail in at say $75.00 that would drop their selling price to say
$100. But I'll bet that you would have to have 20 million people mail in.
Larry
Steve Corey wrote:
What version of ATRAC does the Sony MZ-R90 use? And what version is
Sony ATRAC up to?
Is there a site somewhere that lists versions of ATRACs and that has
examples of music encoded in the various versions?
In spite of any places where you see ATRAC versions for Sony
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You make a good point. I think I'll take that advice.
Thanks for the perspective. I was only looking at the trees.
Leland
Like I said before, we used to include the stepdown transformers at our cost
when we sold a unit. There were are probably still are
Dodge wrote:
Once a week is fine by me !
Any time there is a good deal going on is fine by me!
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There have been many reports of Sharp based units being very demanding about
having the exact power supplied to them. My voltage is 120 (measured with a
DVM at the wall).
Can you think why my R-90 or R-900 wouldn't give the "Hi
DC in" error message they are
Peter Forest wrote: be careful, this unit
is great but take a closer look to the accessories they provide with it.
The one that my friend receive for $179 had no rechargeable batteries
include, no AC adaptor, no remote control... There was only a cheap
headphone and a digital cable supply
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