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I've spent $100USD or more on every set of phones I've purchased. And they've all been worth every penny. They're also all Sony, however I've listened to a few pair of Grado phones, as well as a few Sennheiser. I've always gravitated to the Sony sound though. YMMV. $370 MDR-SA5000 - Just got them today and they're phenomenal. Let me repeat that, PHENOMENAL! (pictorial soon) $250 MDR-7509 - Had these for about 2 years and they are a major step up from the 7506, but they do have their own sound which some people may not like. $120 MDR-D66 - Price-formance wise these are one of the best pair I've ever had. They don't color the sound too much, they're clear, extremely portable, they isolate some outside sound and IMO they're streetable without looking like too much of a dweeb $100 MDR-7506 - My first 'real' pair of phones. I still have them and aside from a minor cut-out issue with the plug which a quick dab of solder fixed they work great. Sound is a bit bassy, but they've still got a good overall sound to them IMO. I've had these for 5 years now and will keep using them until they disintegrate. The trick for me is source material. You absolutely have to pick a dynamic, high quality recording that you're familiar with in order to test new phones. After that it comes down to personal preference in terms of how the phones color the sound. ps. I've been listening to the SA5000's while writing this and I can't get over how good they sound! lol

8 was quite good to my ear. I enjoyed 1-7 in varying degrees, but overall they very nice compilations. 1-8 can be downloaded from this site via bit torrent. http://www.sexy-admin.de/index.php?name=Do...download&sid=10 They used to provide a direct download... If you guys want to put 1-8 in the gallery (they're freely (re)distributable according to MB) I can provide a faster download.

Tape 9 dropped today.

My guess would be AES, but I never found any tidbits to support that when I scanned through SS 3.x files.

This is my favorite way of demonstrating to people how durable the discs are. A good lob into a wall usually gets a few "Damn that's cool." responses from people.

Start recording: No. You have to do this on the main unit. Adjust levels: Absolutely. Jog up or down after setting the REC Level to manual will raise or lower levels.

My NH1 took two spills from my pocket when getting out of my car and landed on concrete once and blacktop the other time. All it has to show for it is a minor corner scuff. It's a hell of alot more resistant to scratching, etc than the RH10 is. The LCD plastic is also harder than the RH10 plastic. I've had the NH1 in pockets, in my backpack unprotected, etc and have no scratches on the LCD plastic. It's a pretty resilient machine.

I can't pick between the NH1 and RH10. They both have their merits.

Yes, you can. When you upload tracks in Sonic Stage they will retain the order they were recorded on the minidisc. If you wanted to combine tracks 1 and 5 for whatever reason simply select the 1st and 5th track in your library (after uploading of course) and click Edit->Combine. If you use Sonic Stage 3.2 you can upload files over and over again so if you happen to screw up it's not a complete loss. The link Volta posted is good. The best advice is to make some non-critical recordings and play around with the system. This way you won't get stuck when it counts.

Welcome to the forum You can't disable that "feature". It is annoying as hell, however when you upload the tracks with Sonic Stage you can quickly combine them. After uploading all tracks, click on the "My Library" button at the top, select the tracks you want to combine and click on Edit->Combine Tracks. Depending on how large the tracks are, or if there are more than 100, you may want to combine them in groups of 40 or 50 just to play it safe.

Ah nice find. This will definitely help find new music. Time to populate it with small bands.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/15/riaa_cdr_p2p/ The Recording Industry Association of America has acknowledged that P2P file-sharing is less of a threat to music sales than bootleg CDs. The RIAA's chief executive, Mitch Bainwol, last week said music fans acquire almost twice as many songs from illegally duplicated CDs as from unauthorised downloads, Associated Press reports. According to Bainwol, in turn citing figures from market watcher NPD, 29 per cent of the recorded music obtained by listeners last year came from content copied onto recordable media. Only 16 per cent came from illegal downloads. Legal downloads accounted for four per cent of music acquisitions, while official CDs accounted for almost 50 per cent of the total. The RIAA's favoured solution appears to be copy-protected CDs, which are gradually spreading throughout the music CD market. This approach "is an answer to the problem that clearly the marketplace is going to see more of," Bainwol told the news agency. Over the last few months, we've seen a growing number of stories published by the mainstream media that highlight the growing number of copy-protected CDs in the market and, in particular, those that have become big sellers. If we didn't know better, we'd suggest this was all part of a scheme to attempt to ease consumers' concerns that the music industry is out to make it a darn sight harder to listen to music on a computer. But they wouldn't do that, would they? Ahem. Now that copy-protection has gone beyond crude early attempts to foist poor Java music player software on consumers, and to limit their ability to make copies for personal usage - in those territories where such 'fair use' rights are enshrined in copyright law, at least - the music industry seems a lot keener to release anti-rip discs. Much-improved hardware compatibility has helped too. The fly in the works is, of course, Apple. A recent Reuters story covering the sales success of copy-protected CDs contain quotes from a number of folk bemoaning the lack of support for the iPod. So far, copy-protection schemes are Windows only, since they dump PC-ripped music as Windows Media files. The iPod doesn't support Windows Media file formats or DRM. Music industry figures were grumbling that Apple's apparent unwillingness to license its FairPlay DRM technology - or, more likely we suspect, do so at a price the music industry is willing to pay - prevents them from creating music files that can be transferred to and played on an iPod. What the report failed to note was that the Mac version of iTunes has generally been fairly robust in its unwillingness to cater to copy-protection technologies. When we reviewed Macrovision's then state-of-the-art CDS-300 version 7 copy-protection scheme last year, while it happily imposed restrictions on Windows users, the sample tracks we were challenged to rip where easily converted from CD audio to MP3 on a PowerBook G4 running iTunes. Right now, the solution to copy-protection appears simple: buy a Mac. In any case, Apple wants iPod owners to buy songs from the iTunes Music Store, not on CD, so there's little to be gained from licensing FairPlay for incorporation into CD copy-protection systems. That may change when Apple comes to renegotiate its iTunes sales licences from major and minor labels, on which Apple is undoubtedly banking on the growing success of iTunes as its prime bargaining tool that the current licensing regime be maintained. ®

I wonder if Sony has improved the media quality with this batch. I ran into a bad 1G purple/blue disc the other day. It wouldn't record past the 200 megabyte mark. Bit annoying, lost the last ten minutes of a recording because of it.

Two cards actually. One is a 6600GT from XFX on the DVI input. The other is an onboard MSI GeForce 4 on the analog input. It's equally sharp on both it seems. There's certainly no glaring performance loss by using the analog input, I'd have to spend alot of time testing to find a difference.

It's working for me now.

Eggos on the go. They keep my hat from flying off my head when I take the ferry home Big cans at home.

Getting an url error with the regular bt client.

So what small labels have you bought music from? This should be a good way to find new music and share experiences buying from small labels. http://www.twoshedsmusic.com/ Ordered a bunch of stuff from Two Sheds and they threw in two free CDs! Definitely a bonus. http://www.gencorecords.com Picked up Post Break Tragedy's first release, they're a local (New Jersey) punk band. http://www.kungfurecords.com/ Tsunami Bomb. Nuff said.

Aye. Small labels have some of the best music out there IMO. Their releases usually cost less, plus I've found a bunch of labels will throw in extras when you buy their releases. Customer service is usually excellent too. edit: Thought the whole small label thing would be a good thread topic. Share away. http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=11525

Look at the number of top 40 stations around the country, there's a whole lot of people in this category. The CD-Text thing doesn't bother me so much. If I've taken the time to pull a CD from the rack, put it in my player, and play it, I've more than likely got the jewel case nearby to look at track names, etc.

www.freebsd.org is a Unix operating system. www.blender.org is an open source 3D modelling and rendering program. I bought the monitor from Newegg for $342. No dead pixels, shipped across the country in 4 days.

So far I played FreeFalcon 3.1 and Doom 3. Doom 3 is really vibrant, nice and dark with great contrast. The panel refresh is very fast, if there is any ghosting I can't see it. I'll give HL2 and Counter-Strike a run tomorrow. I'm on my FreeBSD system now using Blender and browsing the web. Crisp and clean throughout.

Watching videos at angles looks fine to me, at extreme angles the color hues change a bit, but it's very tolerable. The screen rotates vertically, so you can go from 1280x1024 to 1024x1280. Picture turning your monitor on its side. It also tilts front to back to adjust for viewing height. One thing to note, it is very bright from the factory. I turned the brightness down a few notches until my eyes were comfortable. Contrast remained intact as Toms mentioned.

The speakers are in the rear of the unit, they're rated at 2 watts and sound OK, but for such low profile speakers I don't know that you should expect anything great. There's also a headphone out on the back of the unit so you can bypass to good phones. Unfortunately all the photos I'm taking don't do the screen justice. This screen can also rotate 90 degrees for a vertical image which is good if you do any desktop publishing.

It's inefficient, but I make copies of whatever files I'm going to put on minidisc then import those.