Re: MD: Digital CD-MD-Amp passthrough

2000-06-28 Thread Jeff J. Voeller
I think you could do a simple test to determine if your MD unit is passing an unaltered digital signal or not, assuming you have DTS capability. Put a DTS CD in your CD player, pass the signal through your MD recorder, then attempt to decode the DTS signal after it's been through the MD unit

Re: MD: Digital CD-MD-Amp passthrough

2000-06-28 Thread Björn Wiberg
Hi Leo! At 04:55 2000-06-28 +0100, you wrote: >From: Leo Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: MD: Digital CD-MD-Amp passthrough >I guess I need to get an MD deck that has optical input and output and is >able to act as a passthrough so the CD's optical output can re

Re: MD: Digital CD-MD-Amp passthrough

2000-06-28 Thread Neon John
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 t

RE: MD: Digital CD-MD-Amp passthrough

2000-06-27 Thread Richard Lang
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 28 June 2000 12:10 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MD: Digital CD-MD-Amp passthrough Hi, I've just joined this list so apologies if this has been asked before, but I couldn't see a mention in any FAQs or webpages. I'm thinking about

Re: MD: Digital CD-MD-Amp passthrough

2000-06-27 Thread David W. Tamkin
Joost van de Griek wrote, | The fact that you have to set the MD deck to Record for it to pass through | the signal makes me suspect that the signal goes through an ATRAC | encoding/decoding cycle. In other words, it's passing through the signal | that would come from the MD, not the original PC

Re: MD: Digital CD-MD-Amp passthrough

2000-06-27 Thread Francisco J. Montilla
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, J. van de Griek wrote: Hi, > > I have a JA20ES w/ 2 outputs (TOSLink/Coax) and 3 inputs > > (2TOSLink/Coax) and I use it as a "digital patching matrix", and yes, you > > have to press the record button (try it w/o a MD :) so that it acts as a > > -AD DA- or AD-DA co

Re: MD: Digital CD-MD-Amp passthrough

2000-06-27 Thread J. van de Griek
Francisco J. Montilla wrote: [snipperdesnap] > I have a JA20ES w/ 2 outputs (TOSLink/Coax) and 3 inputs > (2TOSLink/Coax) and I use it as a "digital patching matrix", and yes, you > have to press the record button (try it w/o a MD :) so that it acts as a > -AD DA- or AD-DA converter. I also hav

Re: MD: Digital CD-MD-Amp passthrough

2000-06-27 Thread Francisco J. Montilla
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Simon Gardner wrote: Hi, > >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-quali

Re: MD: Digital CD-MD-Amp passthrough

2000-06-27 Thread Simon Gardner
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 only has one optical/digi

MD: Digital CD-MD-Amp passthrough

2000-06-27 Thread Leo Davidson
Hi, I've just joined this list so apologies if this has been asked before, but I couldn't see a mention in any FAQs or webpages. I'm thinking about getting an MD-deck, mainly to record CDs to MD. (I currently use a Discman and an MZ-R55 connected via optical, and have an MZ-E90 for playback.) M