RE: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-29 Thread Simon Barnes
Matt White wrote: Okay, then here's the technical reason: CDs are sampled at an insufficient rate to ensure proper reproduction. CDs are sampled at 44.1kHz, which gives a maximum frequency of 20kHz. The original argument was about what constitutes "analog warmth". I don't

Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-29 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* Matt White [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 28 Feb 2000 | I wasn't talking about DVD-Video though. DVD Video's audio tracks and DVD Audio are (or will be) mastered more or less identically. | No I wouldn't. 5.1 is fine for movies, but I don't see the point for | audio. The whole point of stereo

RE: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-28 Thread Simon Barnes
Edward Nigma (love that name) wrote, re analog warmth: It is not distorted. This seems to be a matter of belief. I don't believe it, but then I'm an Electronic Engineer, and therefore hopelessly blinkered. Cd's can be gritty and harsh unless you have good equiment. and

Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-28 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* Matt White [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 28 Feb 2000 | Okay, then here's the technical reason: CDs are sampled at an | insufficient rate to ensure proper reproduction. CDs are sampled at | 44.1kHz, which gives a maximum frequency of 20kHz. 22.05, actually, due to the phenomenon known as

RE: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-28 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Matt White wrote: Hi, This seems to be a matter of belief. I don't believe it, but then I'm an Electronic Engineer, and therefore hopelessly blinkered. Okay, then here's the technical reason: CDs are sampled at an insufficient rate to ensure proper

Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-28 Thread Matt White
On 28 Feb 2000, Stainless Steel Rat wrote: * Matt White [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22.05, actually, due to the phenomenon known as "aliasing". Right, however CD are still limited to 20kHz at pressing. DVD-Video's audio formats, dts and Dolby Digital (AC-3) have the capability

Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-25 Thread rmeeder
On 22 Feb 00, at 21:11, Edward Nigma wrote: using good equipment, SACD and Dvd-audio should have the analog warmth afaik. E. Nigma But what is analog warmth. AFAIK analog warmth is nothing more then plain distortion of the signal. Vinyl sounds warmer then a CD because the signal is more

Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-25 Thread Edward Nigma
It is not distorted. Cd's can be gritty and harsh unless you have good equiment. and many cd's are poorly recorded. "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." --Marilyn vos Savant - To

Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-24 Thread Edward Nigma
using good equipment, SACD and Dvd-audio should have the analog warmth afaik. E. Nigma "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." --Marilyn vos Savant - To stop getting this list send a

RE: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-23 Thread Simon Gardner
tube amp. Now if you have a DVD-audio and a nice tube amp you should get some of this warmth back, but i personally dont think these new formats will give us much more than a lot longer listening time, and hopefully another channel or two :) Matt I doubt that the extra time will be used

Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-22 Thread Gadagada
In a message dated 2/22/00 12:19:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can't you put it back into the digital camera and reformat the card? My Olympus R340D uses Smartmedia, and there are instructions on how to format the media. From the manual, To format the card, 1.

Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-22 Thread Gadagada
In a message dated 2/21/00 11:34:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aside from the no moving parts issue, I find no advantage to solid state storage if it still involves compression. ATRAC and magneto/optical digital storage have proven themselves. However, we

Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-22 Thread LAS
"PS sorry about the babbling" I can only speak for myself. But I did think it was babble. I really enjoyed your comments and found them very informative. Larry - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word

Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-22 Thread Matt Wall
will give us much more than a lot longer listening time, and hopefully another channel or two :) Matt - Original Message - From: Edward Nigma [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 9:55 PM Subject: Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience I agree with LAS

Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-22 Thread Brent Harding
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Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-22 Thread Brent Harding
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Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-22 Thread Brent Harding
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Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-22 Thread Edward Nigma
I agree with LAS in the sense that MD and Mp3's involve compression. So do cd's for that matter. Cant wait to get my hands on SACD and DVD-audio. Supposedly, they match the fullness and warmth of LP's. My $.02 E. Nigma "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must

Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-22 Thread LAS
Hi. It all goes back to the moving parts problem. Solid state is immune from shock. With the prices of regular RAM going up, I don't see the price special memory (is it called static RAM?) dropping in the near future. Also, using a standard sized memory module, such as Flash cards or Smart

Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-22 Thread LAS
=== The original message was multipart MIME=== === All non-text parts (attachments) have been removed === Edward Nigma wrote: I agree with LAS in the sense that MD and Mp3's involve compression. So do cd's for that matter. Cant wait to get my hands on SACD Technically

Re: MD: My Diamond Rio Experience

2000-02-21 Thread LAS
Hi Gary, Can't help you with your love life, but I really appreciate the input about Rio. MD has been around for about 8 years now. Although I'm the only person in the MD world that finds the quality of Sony's MZ-1 acceptable, in 8 years MD manufactures have not sat on their hands. By the