MusicBringer

it's a drastic change. At the moment I'm not too keen

...I understand your reasons Volta, however, if it ever crops up again, then I'm here to Second the motion

Low Volta, another well written piece..!! It helped me a lot. Thanks

Being a Dad who "enjoys his music mostly at home."..."uses them when he travels"..."listens to classic rock (Led, Floyd, Dead, etc)" I'll tell you of two that I like a lot: Grado SR225 Senn PXC 250 I esp recommend the PXC250 - they are noise reduction and fold away. He'll love 'em.

Thanks greenmachine

Hello bobthegoat2001, my preferred style of music is rock too. Although I tend to listen to guitar rock, blues rock, seventies rock, heavy rock and so on. I might be interested in a rock swap. However you provide no indication where you are located. And I must say I do not understand you when you say:

AudioLab 8000A It has no digital input to take an optical cable

Wow! What comprehensive replies. I never expected such helpful detailed suggestions. Thank you so much guys. To take it all in, I'll have to sit down and read your posts again.

point taken - thanks

good idea umm, what's TB I have a 2000CPU, 512 Ram, and an Audigy soundcard now. I wish to upgrade. I fail to understand to the message behind your suggestions greenmachine. Please clarify for me

I am about to embark on upgrading my PC. The present one is: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU, Motherboard is VIA KT-266A VT8233A, 512 Meg DDR memory, 2 x 80 Gig 7200 rpm Maxtor HDDs (I like to have two hard drives), Floppy drive, USB four port card, 16 Meg SIS Graphics card, LG CD-RW GCE 8523B and LG DVD-ROM GDR8160B CD-ROM drives, and an old Audigy 1 Platinum eX Soundcard (not Audigy 2), running XP Pro SP2. I should be grateful if you would let me have your views, ideas, and comments as to what parts I should consider so that the new machine will be up-to-date, without being excessively expensive. Don’t ask me what my budget is, coz I tend to go and spend more anyway. I am prepared to spend a bit now on a PC that will be fit for the future. I know - as soon as you get the machine home it is out of date and worth half what you paid for it, but you know what I mean. I am used to upgrading an odd part each year, but I shall not be in a position to do that in future, so I’m planning the big upgrade now. I use the PC mainly for playing my music collection through my HiFi. (I have a 300 Gig ext HDD to store backups of music files). I shall be getting a better sound card. I’m looking at the E-MU maybe the 0404 or 1212M. I need analogue in and out, and a headphone socket too please. As it’s for Music I must have a quiet fan. The PC is on all day and I don’t want to be listening to the hum of the fan. Do I need a DAC. They seem to have been flavour of the month for several months now. I am not a Gamer, nor do I watch many films on the PC. Otherwise it’s used for the Internet (TeleWest 1 Meg Broadband) and the usual apps such as word and excel. Plus a little bit of photo tweaking. And of course SS and SB for my cherished NH1 and NH900. My LG 19 inch screen, mouse, and keyboard will remain. You folk here on this particular forum are so good with real suggestions. Please tell me what you think...

Thank you kurisu. I too have corrected my Effects

good answer greenmachine

there is an alternative you could try. It is kinder to your PC. Real Alternative Real_Alternative

Thank you Ishii, your suggestion worked a treat. I actually ran the old free version of JV16 powertools to clean the registry, and hey, yes, I can now get into SS again. And I didn't need to reboot. Hooray

I just installed ss32 on my xp pro sp2 pc, over a perfectly good working copy of ss3.1. Now I get this annoying error message. I have re-booted three times yet the message still pops up when I click on the desktop icon.

Thanks folks, the JetAudio and dBpowerAMP worked well fo me.

Hello The Low Volta, thanks I give it a go. And thanks for the link aswell - that's why you took longer..!! And Ta to Ishiyoshi too

So now I've got these loverley flac files and I can play 'em on me PC. But I'd like to put 'em on me HiMD minidisc. I should be grateful if you would tell me an easy way to do this. I guess I have to convert 'em to wav or whatever first. What software does that. Nothing complicated please

Thank you mrsoul, I have just edited 'em. They now say: Permit. I'm new to this bit torrent lark - any more tips please. [late edit] hooray done it..!! So how do I get more music using this torrent thingy. Which sites do you recommend, and which ones to avoid. I like guitars, classic rock, blues guitars. (Wow this Comfortably Numb is good)

Thank you Breepee2, That's better, got the torrent-client ok. I'm downloading the music file now. Altho it's gonna take 3hrs on my 1 meg broadband. Also Kerio, my firewall, is going crazy with loads of "Someones" wanting to connect to me. That bit scares me I keep saying Deny

thanks Breepee2, downloaded it ok, but my virus checker then goes and deletes it. Tried three times now, and it gets zapped every time.

Hello mrsoul, I would like to hear your recording. Please tell me how to deal with a torrent file

Please tell us how to completely discharge a NH-14WM. Like Sparky191 I would like to know too

Hello 803cd, try these folk. I use 'em and find 'em good. KVJ Fairdeal Ltd, 76 Whitechapel High St Ring 'em on 020 7247 6029 I got my NH-14WM-BC 1400mAh for my NH900 from them, cannot remember the price I paid, but I thought it was a bargain. [late edit] btw they are very good with their minidisc prices too. If you're in or near London, it's worth going over to East London they are right next door to Aldgate tube.