aeriyn

The eggos are rather nice for the money, make good portable cans and the bass can be improved by doing the cotton mod. (search Head-Fi for details.)

Can't. Already own the white ones. =P MDmp3, that model really isn't anything worth getting. If you are going to get a downloader model, it's best to get one of the Hi-MD units such as the 600D. The NetMD downloaders are limited to LP2 quality encoded by SonicStage, which basically means it sucks horribly. If I were you and really still wanted to go the MD route, I'd look for a used R900 or R700 on eBay. I once owned an R900 and I still believe it to be the best MD recorder Sony has ever made.

Those must be some expensive CD-Rs. :laugh: Last pack of MDs I bought averaged out to around 2 dollars a disc, while the TDK CD-Rs I have are a spindle of 50 for 15 bucks.

I did. It's in the post your pic thread in the off-topic forum.

Dude, he's a basshead. I know this and that's why I recommended the Darth Beyers.

I couldn't really imagine using an iPod as a home unit either. :laugh: My iPod is purely for portable audio, and my computer is for no audio at all save for games. At home, I use good old fashioned linear PCM compact discs. :grin: My new Cambridge Audio CDP is lovely and it sounds very nice. Well, will sound nice again once I get my headphone amplifier fixed and functional again. Damn TLE2426 rail splitter smoked and it no worky now. -.-' I suppose MD is of much greater use to you because you listen at home as well as on the go. I never did; at home I just listened on my CD player with the original (or a burned) CD.

Oi. Why does everyone think the iPod costs so much? It costs just as much as any other HDD digital audio player. :sleep: iPod stock buds are horrid. Replacing them with something better is mandatory. The phones I use for my iPod are white, but only because Shure thinks that by painting their E3cs white they'll appeal to more iPod buyers. No, actually I'd prefer not hanging up a sign that screams, "LOOK AT MY WHITE EARPHONES! I HAVE A $250 MP3 PLAYER IN MY POCKET!!! ROB ME PLEASE!!!" I think I'll paint the E3cs black.

"Sony" and "computer" just don't mix. It's how it's always been.

Look for a used set of Beyerdynamic DT770-80 PRO (the 80 ohms version, which is the DJ version). I know your sound preferences and the Darth Beyers would surely fit the bill. =P

The differences between codecs are infintesimal at such high bitrates.

How much money can you spend? :grin:

I don't, anymore. Got sick of the slow transfers and SonicStage. I really do miss the discs, though. Some were really hot looking. :grin: Because Chris likes it when I do. :laugh: Bah, it's not your PC. It's the limitations of how fast magneto-optical can write data, which is to say, slower than an 8x CD-ROM drive.

G750's a good unit. I'm sure it'll work fine. It's the radio remote version of the R700, and I find the R900/R700/E900/etc series to be some of the best MD units that Sony ever made.

Not even close to the same thing. MD is different. It doesn't fill the same niche that vinyl does. It can't fill the niche Sony wants it to fill (portable audio) because there are other products (iPod, Rio Carbon/Karma, Creative Zen, etc) that fill the same niche and do a much better job at it. The only niche that MD fills is the amateur recordists' niche, and Sony's overzealous use of copy protection is disgruntling their one single base of customers for MD products. But they still use MD because there's nothing else to use that's at the same price point. CF recorders work better but are much more expensive. DAT is cumbersome and clunky. Not much else you can use. Why do you think Sony is so stridently pushing their HDD players? Why do you think they finally included native MP3 support on their Network Walkmen? They're finally learning that their tactics don't work. MD is doomed to a fate of niche-market obscurity. Hi-MD, even with native MP3 support (which may or may not happen) will never be able to compete with the iPod or any other HDD player for many reasons, but the fact that it takes forty five minutes to fill up a disc is enough of a reason not to buy for most people.

not with the limitation on magneto-optical write speeds. I can fill my iPod Mini's HDD completely full of 4GB in less than eight minutes. To fill four 1GB Hi-MD discs would take somewhere around the neighborhood of two and a half to three hours. native MP3 playback won't save MD as a listening format. the only thing that would honestly save MD from eventual obscurity is an increase in interest by professionals or amateur musicians who would use it to record. md/hi-md is just too slow compared to hdd players which can utilize the full speed of USB2.0/Firewire. removable media portable audio is pretty much a thing of the past. PCDPs still hang around, but everything else is pretty much history. MD, DCC, DAT... all soon to be mere memories.

What would you USE it for? o.O Not a justifiable expense is it? :laugh:

Anyone who buys S/PDIF Optical cables from an electronics store like Best Buy is not getting any kind of good deal. You can bop on down to your nearest electrical supply store and usually find the very same cables for around one fourth the price. Also, you can regularly find fairly good optical cables on eBay for around 2 dollars US each. Same with CAT5e patch cables. Fifty foot CAT5e patch cable at Best Buy = 49.95. Fifty foot CAT5e patch cable at Forbes Distributing Co. (my nearest electrical supply store) = 5.00 for the cable and 55 cents for each plug piece. Huge difference.

This is what everyone says... ... until they use one. :laugh: I used to be an iPod hater myself. Now I have an iPod Mini and I love it. You'd be surprised at how many albums I can fit on a 4GB drive at 224kbps AAC compression. The sound quality is excellent but I feel that most people especially those used to Sony house sound would find the bass lacking. Ease of use is incredible. I could really go on for an hour about why I love my iPod. However I only have one bad thing to say about it: short battery life. I think most men tend to shy away from iPods because they look girly. :laugh: This little pod is a 30mW+30mW outputting beast. Nothing girly there. :grin: Don't go to head-fi if you value your wallet! :grin:

Man, you should've put a reserve on that. Those things are insanely expensive and it's probably gonna sell for minimum bid. x.x I just had that happen to some anime DVDs I was selling on eBay; some jackoff got them for minimum fscking bid. Oh man I was not your everyday cute Cori anymore. :rasp:

Back when it was still among the functioning, I dropped my R900 more times than I can count. One drop was from sixteen feet in the air on a high second floor deck. Hit the ground below (grass). No damage, no problems. I haven't dropped my new pink iPod Mini yet, but I'm sure I will eventually. From what I've heard, however, the iPod Mini is a very tough little unit. So I am not nearly as worried as I was with, say, my DS8 or the N10 I had.

doesn't the auto gain control distort the signal though?

E5cs have much higher sensitivity than EX71s and thus are MUCH more efficient despite their 110 ohms impedance. Higher impedance does not always mean higher efficiency. I believe that a low-impedance headphone has high current draw and low voltage requirements while a high-impedance one is the other way around. I think. Not sure though.

Nah, your experiences with the EX71 is pretty much normal. They have both bloaty, uneven bass and shrill and metallic highs. Burning in these phones does no good. Nothing you can really do with them will fix them. I've heard of a few people modding these phones by filling over the vent holes with some type of covering (glue or tape) and it's supposed to relax the treble a little. If I were you, though, I'd put those EX71s for sale either here or at Head-Fi. For less fatiguing phones, check out the Shure E2c or the Sharp MD33. Both are around the 50-60 price range (the sharps are about 40 + 10 shipping from audiocubes). The MD33s are designed for use with dual mono headphone jacks (4-conductor rather than 3-conductor) if you use them "short" with the extension cord removed. The extension acts as a converter to normal stereo minijack however.

If you budget's limited, for home use headphones I'd drop the Grado SR-60 recommendation any day. They are amazing for the price--60 dollars usually.

There are some earphones with bad bass, and some with good bass. Sony's offerings definitely fall into the bad, flabby, bloated, muddy bass. Most of the very bassy (but good) earphones are also very expensive. Shure E5cs and Westone UM-2 are considered the king of canalphone bass, that is if you don't count custom IEMs such as Sensaphonic or Ultimate Ears. Of course, all of this is 300USD or higher. For the basshead on a budget, there's really not much that produces a tight bass short of the E2. It's not especially clean or detailed, but it's not anywhere nearly as flabby as the EX71. Also you could try looking for Westone UM-1s. They're a sort of clone of the Shure E1, but supposedly have more bass. I've seen them on eBay for ~100USD.