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  1. Yeah but it's inside the digital stage of one of the best AD/DA's on the planet.
  2. So, turn the REC LEVEL knob up to +8.0dB and you're done? There's a reason that (for example the BBC) stations never output 0dB. I think it has to do with headroom. Better to be a bit under than distort? For a long time CDs were mastered well under the 0dB limit, and then along came unscrupulous music producers who got more money by everything being loud loud loud (and clipped). I'm happy with lower levels, and given that my 930 MD has a nice gain knob I've never had a problem.
  3. Hang on.... -8dB is hardly very low volume. I just got through processing some recordings made by someone else where I had to amplify them by x16 = 24dB. Now THAT's low. The MD should have a gain setting, usually up to +12dB although on the 930 it might even be +18dB. Stephen
  4. I always wondered what those two pins were for. The MZ-NHF800 has them, also, for the special inline radio that comes with it (I never got mine to work for more than a few days) and I have no idea if the pins do the same in both. Circuit diagram experts, can you enlighten us?
  5. I've had a screw loose for as long as I can remember. And so do most of my friends.
  6. If the SPDIF is not the global sink for sound output you may not have a problem. I would suggest sending that to normal speakers/headphones/whatever but use VLC (or some other player) to play to the SPDIF output.
  7. I think you have to turn off driver signing AGAIN, i.e. it will have been re-enabled at the next reboot or perhaps even sooner than that, and you have to do it each time a new device is installed.
  8. I have not one but 2 noisy N910s. You never know, you might get one of them if this works. Pay it forward and all that! Most likely gonna need your help with the px7 though 🙂
  9. Most likely that's the problem. I sent a notebook to England last week and it cost $25. Thanks for the offer, though, and it's not (in my case) urgent. Unless the px7 needs it (;
  10. Thinking about it, the item's location in Grantham is rather piquant...... especially when you consider it was Maggie who got the UK the best deal anyone ever had for joining the EU.
  11. See the previous post to yours. "Disable driver signature enforcement" - it's the only way
  12. Kevin, wouldthis work? I cannot find any quantity of EM-30L that doesn't require a $50 outlay (at least) https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B000HBNV58
  13. Not much help here; but most of my experiences when a deck came up "dead" were resolved by double-checking the ribbon cables inside the box. I think this needs more expert electronic advice than I am qualified to give. Stephen
  14. I thought I'd add to this: the wide range of automobile head units also plays ATRAC (and ATRAC 3+), at least a dozen models. I use the MEX-BT5000 (with Bluetooth support). They don't show up in the Minidisc Equipment Browser because there's no MD - however you can add an MD changer via the Sony Unilink device cable that most units have at the back thereby having your cake and eating it. My pet bugbear is that none of the third party softwares support ATRAC/+ CDs. Only SonicStage. Another example of a wonderful technology Sony was frightened to use because of the piracy implications if it was too easy to copy disks.
  15. (I heard that) One thing I noticed was he was using XP. Has anyone tried x86 (32-bit) Windows 10? The only versions I have had running are hosted (VirtualPC) XP. I did the 32-bit experiment a while back with mixed results (the machine was so slow that I really don't know if the problems were because of that. IIRC it does work, but I absolutely won't swear to it. I don't have a dedicated Windows-32 to try it on. The functionality chart shown in the Video confirms what I have always thought - the MDS-PC3 is rather a special little device. Mind you I am looking forward to getting my hands on the PX7. Maybe you (Kevin) should try the approach he uses at the start of the movie, playing around with WAV files he's loaded into M-Crew's library.
  16. I'm pretty sure these are standard connectors and the wires just go straight through. Crossing my fingers that it's there anyway. In the unlikely event Encompass has it, the cost will be 2-3 times what I paid for the entire kit and caboodle, so self-manufacture seems the way to go
  17. L and R - are those the direction of "increase" when turned?
  18. Well that works for me (no speakers). More to the point is there's no sign of the interconnect cable in the photos. So you guys may have to help me make one if it doesn't turn up.
  19. Sigh, I found the reason I couldn't see any for sale. They got listed as HMC-PX7. Amazingly there were two listed on Yahoo Japan, I bought one buy-it-now for $50 or so. The killer will be the shipping, I shall have to negotiate with Buyee and see if they will throw away the speakers and save me the cost of that, if it makes a huge difference.
  20. I am quite intrigued by the specifications of the CMT-PX7. Has anyone ever seen one of these? It has a 3-CD changer and a 3-MD changer. I know that its little brother the CMT-PX3 (I have 2, one in England I am still looking to unload) is one of the most reliable units I've ever seen. Both machines have MDLP (CXD2662 or equivalent). There is also a PX5 - there's one on Yahoo Japan - with 3CD and 1MD which is less interesting to me. The PX7 is claimed to be usb-controllable, but the manual I found shows a PS/2 socket just as I would expect from that era, instead of USB. Intriguingly the PX3 was sold under the moniker DHC-595MD - weird eh? So perhaps the PX7 has another name???? Inquiring minds, dontcha know?
  21. That would be brilliant. You can look at the inf file(s) for the "everything" netMD here that I made - they've been installed thousands of times. I just did exactly what you said, modified it so it installs for everything. Signing is another matter, but you've already got that under control.
  22. I am about 99% certain I've seen the Sony device "connected" in some Windows configuration/status display (once Sonic Stage starts then I agree it disappears). So I wonder if it simply needs a key...... but no idea how that would work in practice. The Sony driver for 64 bits works reliably for all NetMD, the only problem is installing it, which problem has been solved for quite a while.
  23. Very interesting. thanks for the clarification. I've certainly seen performance problems on time-sensitive (and interrupt-dependent) software designed for 32-bit windows running on a 64-bit box. So it didn't seem much of a stretch (to imagine the main barrier being 64 vs 32 bits). I wonder what exactly Sony did (yeah I know, they got over-the-top paranoid at one point)? Or does this approach completely bypass Sony's driver?
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