Re: MD: My First MD Experience: Update

1999-12-09 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Now to readdress another question that I have re: the > Sharp MT-15. I bought two cables: one a miniplug to > miniplug to connect the MD to my car's CD player; the > other a digital optical to miniplug. Neither seems to > work with the MT-15. On the mini to mini,

MD: My First MD Experience: Update

1999-12-09 Thread James Jarvie
First...thank you once again to those of you who responded to me, both on-line and off. I wanted to let you know that I have made another recording, and the results were much better this time. For this recording, I made analogue recordings of CDs, played back on my JVC CD player (no digital out

MD: My first MD Experience

1999-12-06 Thread James Jarvie
Thank you to Jeff and Rick for your responses. I will try some more recordings as soon as possible, and will post results. After having read this digest for quite some time, I have to believe that the enthusiasm for MDs would not be out there if the results were as I previously described. So

Re: MD: Why MD; My first MD experience

1999-12-06 Thread David W. Tamkin
James Jarvie wrote, | I just bought a Sharp MT-15 (my first venture into the world of MDs). I | made a recording on Saturday with which I am very disappointed. The | recording came from a very well recorded cassette. I patched the RCA | cables from the cassette into the minidisc input of the

RE: MD: Why MD; My first MD experience

1999-12-06 Thread Rick Pali
From: James Jarvie > The recording came from a very well recorded > cassette. I patched the RCA cables from the > cassette into the minidisc input of the MD, > and made my first recording. The quality > stinks. I'm at a loss to explain what went wrong in the dub of the cassette to minidisc Ja

Re: MD: Why MD; My first MD experience

1999-12-06 Thread Jeff DeMaagd
--- James Jarvie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question: Is the compression responsible for the terrible quality recording? Is it that I started with an analogue source (still a bad thing because I want to record many analogue sources as noted above). Audio Quality must be close to a CD or I

MD: Why MD; My first MD experience

1999-12-06 Thread James Jarvie
First, I need to add my 2 cents on the issue of why MD: Audio Quality or Portablility. For me, portability is not the reason for going MD. I have a CD player in the car, and a portable, and both do me quite nicely, thank you. Audio Quality is, of course,important. But again , if it were the o