Peter Forest wrote:
This is the description of the item sold by Buy.com...
As you can see, they don't provide the AC adaptor neither the remote control
and rechargeable batteries (all optional or non-related).
So count, a surcharge of $60 approx. for this unit. So in fact the real
price
DON'T buy second MD equipment in Japan. There are bargains to be found if your
friend looks hard enough. Stay out of the major retailers if you're looking for true
bargains and find small out of town camera shops that also stock audio equipment.
That's where I always found the best prices
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have used Sony 100V adapters in the US (my voltage is 120) for years with
no problems. The R-90 has the ability to detect higher than appropriate DC
voltage (it should give the "Hi DC in" error message). So I doubt that is
the problem.
The average voltage in
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Subject: Re: MD: Problem with recording from CD
Len Moskowitz wrote:
In general commercial CDs *are* SCMS encoded, but the way SCMS works is
that you can make
Shawn, what ever happened to your MD price page?? I know that it was a lot
of hard work, but it was s great!!!
Regards,
Larry
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Alan Dowds wrote:
Hello
Whether you agree with Albert or not, I don't think it's acceptable to
attack his choice of educational establishment.
No one was attacking his "educational establishment". It's an excellent
university. Just making the point that it had one of the highest
James Jarvie wrote:
.Peter posts too much spam vs. I'm grateful for Peter's offers, I
think everyone is missing a point that is obvious to me:
Peter includes the complete text of what he is
replying to
(others do this too)
I always try to go out of my way to fully edit my replies. I
I think that it would be interesting to hear from anyone who actually ha lived
with this unit for a while.
Do you had a marked difference between standard MD and the LP2 mode with
regard to sound quality?
Is Sony the only manufacture selling a portable LP MD unit at this time?
Larry
of Etymotic
around the same time as well.
Leon
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Subject: MD: Sony MZ-R900 and other LP units
Is Sony the only manufacture selling a portable LP MD unit at this time?
Larry
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Peter Forest wrote:
I very appreciate all
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Greg Conquest wrote:
Hi all,
I have an
Peter Forest wrote:
What about : [MDSALES USA ONLY] first in the subject ???
Please let me know...
Sounds fine to me.
I'm also a member of this community so I want to do things right too...
Personally, I prefer to receive some advertisement about Minidisc... than
some Weird Message
Albert Tanone wrote:
At 12:03 09/23/2000, you wrote:
handle it, but I really think the flak over his recent postings is a bit
much. The MD community needs to do everything it can to broaden the
format's appeal and having vendor specific mailing list is fine once an
We've been doing just
"J. Coon" wrote:
I think we are getting carried away here, guys. Use the KISS
principle. Keep It Simple S.
Jim, who can we keep it simple when we have dudes from Wesleyan University
determining that the rest of the list is "doing just fine" without the coupons??
Dan wrote:
But that doesn't help those of us on digest mode (probably a majority of
the overall subscribers), whose digests consist of a huge number of
"coupon" posts and advertisements.
Rick doesn't want to "ban" Peter's posts, and for those looking for
deals, I agree with Rick that they
"J. Coon" wrote:
Get out of digest mode. Set up a MD folder and sort all the MD mail
into it. Then when you read the mail, just click on the subject line
and all the mail for that subject is together. if you see the word
coupon, use the delete button.
I really don't understand why
Adam Queripel wrote:
As he said, it is not easy to filter individual mails from the digest
version of the list.
As Jim Coon said, get out of the Digest mode.
Larry
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Now, unless you have something meaningful to add, do kindly shut the hell
up. I don't like talking to people who turns discussions into these petty
comments.
I was on this list long before you were, so why don't you "kindly shut up".
Dan Frakes wrote:
I was under the impression (from the description of the list) that it was
for discussing MiniDisc technology, getting help, etc. I didn't see "and
where to get good deals on a daily basis" in the description. What's
wrong with the suggestion already made: people can join
Dan Frakes wrote:
You don't see any problem with buying a CD, making a copy of it, and then
reselling it? Besides being a violation of copyright and license
agreement, you don't find *anything* ethically wrong with that?
I'm sure Jim asks your forgiveness Reverend Frakes
Charles Redell wrote:
Hey all,
I just tried this coupon and it is now gone
Oh well,
Guess you didn't move fast enough. I placed an order as soon as I saw the
notice last night. With $15 off on $25 and free shipping, yo can get blank MDs
(and the cases that Peter sells) for next to
Simon Gardner wrote:
Peter,
Not meaning to offend but please stop posting with coupons for some
US-based (and US-only) online shopping company. I'm just guessing here, but
the number of US-based list subscribers is probably lower than you think
and the number of those that actually care
Peter Forest wrote:
I'm sorry for this... but I received more than 75 email from people on the
list that like the coupons I post...
I'm sorry to offend you but it's not everyone who want to receive email from
many sources... A lot of customer want only to receive the MD list stuff and
James Jarvie wrote:
Interesting. I kind of agree though. I have over
1700 CDs, so I can't just go MD in the car (where I
currently do most of my listening). That's why I
would want a MD/CD combo head unit (no need for, or
interest in changers). Also, a portie MD is much more
PrinceGaz -- "In perfect love and perfect trust..." wrote:
I only wish they'd implemented an LP8 mode for dictation, lectures, or
(my wish) audio books, still LP4 five hours on a "standard" disc will keep
me happy provided it is at least as good as a decent 64kbps MP3. Maybe
the day my
"J. Coon" wrote:
I was in ye olde Circuit City last night. All of their portable MD
units were missing. Just an empty shelf where they were. They had a
Sony 330 recorder, and the CD - MD unit, and a few others, but no
porties.
That's strange because for the longest time my CC only had
Rat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"To wit, take a good long look at what Courtney Love is up to, demanding her
slice of the Universal vs. MP3 pie. She'll get nothing from Universal,
which really shows that the record companies are *NOT* doing it to protect
their artists, but their profits."
The
James Jarvie wrote:
All this talk of in-dash MD players makes me so
depressed. No way I'm ever going to get one (took me
years to get my wife to let me get the CD player). Oh
well, still enjoy the MDs thanks to the aux in.
I think that a portable MD recorder is just fine. You have the
"J. Coon" wrote:
"Jeffrey E. Salzberg" wrote:
Oh, please, let's not start that again...
From the Internet Movie Database:
If having a lot of credits is indicative of artistic worth, then
Chuck Norris is a great actor.
Hint: Chuck Norris is *not* a great actor.
"J. Coon" wrote:
Some of those guys don't act at all... They just play themselves.
Could John Wayne act? he always played John Wayne and the people loved
him and so did I.
I hated him. Not only did not not enjoy his movies, I didn't like the man.
There was a Playboy interview with a REAL
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"Shawn R. Lin" wrote:
Heheh, I have to agree
For Larry, I must say, the unit is working great so far. Completely
reliable, as I reach the end of week one of operation :)
Believe me, I don't want you to have any problems with it. As someone who was a
mini disc sales person, the worst thing in the world that I wanted to see was
defective
James Jarvie wrote:
Re: Aiwa. I have an Aiwa in-dash CD player. Worst
piece of SH!T I have ever owned! I've detailed the
problems here before, so I won't go into them again
(although now there is a new problem with it). At
least it has an aux input so I can play my MD through it.
I
Going back and forth like a bunch of little kids that are not getting their way
regarding the reliability of Sony is senseless. The number of people is statically
insignificant.
I think that the consumer reports survey is more reliable. Before anyone says,
consumer reports just has it in for
Rodney Peterson wrote:
You may not think you've ever heard of Mike Myers, but odds are almost
100% you have. He's the creative force and the title role in the Austin
Powers films, among other projects.
Rodney,
Unless a person has been in outer space with no communications with earth
what
Ed Heckman wrote:
At 9/16/00 7:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] increased the world's knowledge by
typing:
Overall, I am very pleased with the R-900. I got a blue one.
You can say what you want about your recorder. Sony SUCKS I have never
owned a reliable Sony product (one exception)!!!
Rodney,
That's not really a very good record for Sony! I feel that if you have 10
pieces of electronic equipment costing $200.00 or more you should expect no
more then 2 to give you any problems in three years.
I have had good luck with Panasonic over all. Much better then Sony (but
that's
I was checking out my local Circuit Shity today. I have good news
regarding MD. I saw about 5 or 6 different choices in blanks (from
about 3 or 4 different manufactures). They had a 15 pack of Fuji that
sold for $30. That's pretty good for CC.
I also say about 4 different portable MD
"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
My R3 after 4 1/2 years and my JE500 and E40 after nearly four years are
kenahorra [this is Larry writing in brackets: This is a hard word to translate
into English-are many Kiddish words-It's sort of like saying "Thank God", but
that really doesn't do it justice.
Jim Coon
I suggest you buy some batteries for it once in a while.
Jim, what have you been smoking?? There are no separate batteries for a wired
remote control.
Larry
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If there is such a debate over the difference in quality between a CD
and it's MD copy, why don't they use the same technology for Md that
they use for the new HDCD?
Funny, I really never heard any complaints aobut the quality of CDs in
recent years, yet they still felt that they should improve
Dan Frakes wrote:
"J. Coon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Damn Sony and there stupid refusal to get rid of that damnable END
SEARCH button. Whoever disigned the END SEARCH button should be
strung up by his petubies. After three years on using Sony R30 it
still bites.
Unless they are going to
cosmo wrote:
I'm not going to quote what you wrote because then I'd be accused of quoting. As for
myself, I always try and edit out as much as possible when I reply to a post. I even
remove the footer about UNSUBSCRIBE (now that's something that annoys me).
As far as decks; I reached a
How much data can the new HDCD hold?
As far as I know the same as a regular CD.
The only issue with sound quality regarding MDs is due to the vact that
ATRAC is a compression algorithm, and you always lose something in
compression.
Yes, but if you can improve the over all sound quality
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But isn't there some
Rodrigo Drupi Mansilla Jiménez wrote:
Reply to Jimenez:
Wow!! You really know your stuff about this!!! I just started reading about it
this morning, having only hear about the technology Sat. night.
So from what you say, although it would not be that simple to do, you could make
an HDCD MD.
After thinking about the post explaining a little about HDCD CDs, I realize
that in order to make HDCD MDs, you would have to equip the recorder with an
encoder as well as a decoder.
I have a feeling that even if the chip were not large, the cost of installing
such a device into an MD recorder
You don't buy beer, you just rent it.
RENT IT!!! Hell I'd die of thirst before I'd drink it.
Larry
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Hi. I don't know about all of the following, but I'm the dude who
wrote the thing on gun control. I really don't know how it ended up on
the MD list??
Doesn't George W. Bush have this scary look on his face? It's across
between extremely mean and f~cken stupid!!!
I like to think of him as
Many athletes work 10-12 hours
a day at their profession. Sure some days they don't, but I think to say
that "most athletes do not have to work that hard" shows a profound
misunderstanding about what "most athletes" actually have to do to be
successful. Most professional athletes have been
WARNINGTHIS IS A REALLY LONG AND BORING POST!!! MUST PEOPLE WILL
PROBABLY JUST WANT TO PRESS THE DELETE KEY!!!
But the post to follow is about MD (still may be boring-I was going to put it
at the end of this to keep on topic, but I realized that would make this crap
even longer and some
"Gordon, Richard" wrote:
Maybe eh - but not as much pain though as listening to RB music..
Rhythm and Blues is a very generic term. Unless you hate all rock and only
listen to Classical music, I'm sure there are some songs that would qualify
as as R B, that you never even realized.
In less
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I just don't see how you can differentiate
"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
Agreed. The average downloader is more likely thinking, "Hey, I'm getting
this stuff for free. Isn't that great?" To think "I'm stealing this stuff"
would require considering the situation further and thinking about its having
an owner and whether its free
Neil wrote:
So you're u-turning, slightly, and reconsidering that art, or at least
artistic expression, is pretty essential to the human species?
Agreed that my original statement was not what I intended it to be.
I suspect the lack of creative culture and stimulus may have reasonably
"Gordon, Richard" wrote:
That's what I mean. Some spin off of rap put under the umberella of RB for
some reason.
I'm not knocking all rap at all, but this stuff we're getting over at the
moment is crap, commercial revisited 80's UK pop - with rapping over the
top.
Calling cRAP R and B is
Some how I got in the middle of a long thread that was not related to MD.
Although I don't think that I was the first person to start this thread, I know
that I was certainly not the first person to start previous threads of a similar
nature.
So back to MD. First off. I refuse to give up on
Do dentists deserve being paid to hurt people? There are a lot more
starving artists out there than there are starving dentists.
The above statement has got to be the one of the stupidest that I have ever heard.
I'm very disappointed that an intelligent person like you would make such a
Do you mean if everybody with artistic creativity, or those that express
themselves artisticly, suddenly disappeared? Or all artistic content and /
or stimulus suddenly disappeared?
No! certainly not all artistic content. When you get down to things that basic,
art is like food (at least
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Well, I haven't
Oh yes. Emphatically. And then some...
Neil
Then why did you waste so much time responding to it, instead of just ignoring
it?
Larry
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"J. Coon" wrote:
OK. I'm going to try and end this discussion now. I have said all along that there
should be a royalty fee paid to download "quality" MP3s from the net.
I stand by that position. I don't think that they average person downloading stuff is
thinking to him/herself, "Hey I'm
Dan Frakes wrote:
Sounds more like mob rule than democracy to me ;-) After all, if the
majority of the population thinks you should give them your savings
account, should you?
The way I was always taught, our government (US) was set up where
majority rules and minority has rights. If the
Larry, I completely agree with most of what you wrote about valuable
professions not being paid what they're actually worth.
Dan, if I gave the impression that artists should not be paid for their work,
that is not what I meant to say. But do artists deserve the payments that
they receive
Hi Dan. I got a set at Sears for $13.99. I had to do some looking. I found
a whole bunch of audio cables that were Recoton, but no dice. I was about to
give up when I saw an other display (the Sears where I live is such a mess
that if it was broken into no one could even tell).
Then there
When it comes to portable headphone amps, Headroom is THE name:
http://www.headroom.com/
They sell their ultra-portable (i.e. it runs on two AA batteries) model
for $100 or $125, if I remember correctly.
Dan, someone suggested a site with instructions to make your own. At
$125.00,
One does not follow from the other. You can put whatever you want on a
DVD, just as you can put whatever you want on a CD. This hypothetical
Mini-DVD could be Sony ATRAC 4 on a 2.5" DVD. It could be CD-DA on a 2.5"
DVD. It could be up to 24-bit linear PCM at up to 96Khz on a 2.5" DVD.
On a very similar note, for portable music I think that all this
discussion of "which version of ATRAC sounds better" should be secondary
to making sure you buy the best headphones you can afford. The headphones
that come with *any* (and I have yet to find an exception) portable music
Everything about DVD has been a collabarative effort, in spite of several
attempts to hijack it -- DivX anyone?
| I have mentioned that regarding the DVD on the list before. The CD is
| obvious now. But don't forget that the CD has been around much longer
| then the MD and did not catch
Matthew Wall wrote:
so the question comes since =
portable md players really dont like dishing out that kind of power for =
larger headphones for a long period of time anyone have any suggestions =
for comfortable earphones that dont suck a lot of juice and sound pretty =
good? yeah i
If I understand what you plan to do, why do you need a computer at all. You
need a CD player with a digital optical output.
What you are doing isn't digital audio extraction if you are using the digital
output of your sound card. You are just making a digital copy of the CD on to
MD.
BTW, I
However, there is some nudity scenes; not so much but enough to don't bring
young children I assume...
My youngest "child" (does everyone realize that the English language does not
have a proper word to use to describe a person's kids when they are all grown
up?-Don't say offspring, that may
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
The DVD Consortium, an association of many electronics manufacturers and
others. There is no one company backing DVD.
OK, but who "created them". For example Sony and the MD. Or was this a
collaboration of a bunch of companies borrowing from existing
"Even the most expensive test equipment doesn't measure subtle differences
well. The human ear is more sensitive than the most expensive "equipment"
in the world."
This is a very important point. Although there are some quantitative tests
that are of value, when you are talking about things
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This is a very reputable company and the price
"Does having an optical out improve sound quality when going to a digital
receiver? If so, how come so many of the minidisc decks don't have them?"
I would say that every mini disc deck currently made has a digital optical
output. When you say does it make a difference do you mean compared
"J. Coon" wrote:
lI am an engineer, and I think that if we can hear something, there has
to be a way to measure it. THis is science , not hokus pokus.
Jim, I have been corresponding with you on the list for several years. I almost
always agree with what you have to say, because I think
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I would say that every mini disc deck
included !
Regards,
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Hi all. I apologize if my replies seem even longer winded than usual.
The last one in my nest just left to start her second year at college
and I guess that I am a little depressed.
Don't mean to use the list as a release. All of my replies were on
topic. Maybe just a little too long.
It's
They could. But
A home DVD-Video recorder costs around $2500.
So did the first home CD player. That can drop if it catches on.
A portable DVD-Video player w/ 4" LCD panel costs around $900.
Actually $675 or so in Sam's Club. The price is dropping already. When they
first came out
"Yaniv S. Eyny" wrote:
I am referring to minidisc decks. I am pretty sure many (If any, I doubt that
the term many applies) of the ones
currently on the market only have analog out. If you look at this sight
http://www.video-direct.com/sony/minidisc/compare.html
you will notice that only
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Yes Peter, however I want to know how was the
. For example, when I sell a MD recorder, I
always give one or two free Minidisc with it. And get sure to have all the
accessories necessary to run it since the customer receive its package...
that was another thing that they did. always included a free disc and never,
never took out any of
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Once again I have to go along with Ratman.
Jim wrote:
If it is coding ones and zeros, then it is digital. You are just
playing with semantics. A strong one or a weak one is still a one. A
strong zero or a weak zero is still a zero. IF it is out of tolerance
then you get crap and skips if the error can't be corrected.
PCM is digital.
Remember the Recoton optical someone mentioned with the mini adapters? I got
a pair at Sears tonight for $13.99 plus tax.
Larry
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Simon said:
"More to the point - do you need the extra play-time, and are you willing to
sacrifice compatibility with everything else to do it? (and pay more for
it?) If not, don't bother."
There is no question that the extra play time would be ao value to many people.
People who drive a lot
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One thing, though; commercial-type CDs aren't
Matthew Wall wrote:
My 3 1/2 cents says i dont need lp, i like md sounding good and
crisp, not
like a nasty old tape or mp3's. if i wanted that i wouldn't use MD.
Why can't they make an MD that will work the way that a DVD does? The quality
of a DVD is at least twice as good as
"The 831 adds a layer of sparkly, burbling high frequencies to quiet
passages and high frequencies .. in fact, if you record anything with
a slight amount of background noise onto the 831 the background noise
just sounds crazy and artificial like a load of bubbles bursting".
It sounds to me
Hello Mr. Devilder.
I'm not sure what you refer to when you say analyze the disc itself.
The other point I am interested in that has been discussed here over.' Memorex
MD blank discs. I have personally never had a problem with the Memorex discs
that I bought. But it seems that other
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I didn't say it wasn't funny. It was 90 years
Hi.
Well it looks like you were misinformed about Hi Space and Memorex. MPO makes
them. They are the only company in France that Manufacture MDs. This from the
horse's mouth at MPO.
Larry
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"J. Coon" wrote:
las wrote:
I didn't say it wasn't funny. It was 90 years ago when I heard it for
the first time.
Jeez, how the heck old are you, Larry? G
I was born about 10,000 years ago. There ain't nothin in this world that I
don't know. I saw Peter, Paul and Moss
Either I misread something or the author wrote it incorrectly, but he stated
that an MD copy could never sound as good as the original CD. then he said
something to the effect, neither could an CD-DA??
Just what did he mean by that?? A CD-DA is a standard audio CD. Even a copy
created on a
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