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" Member Number 1,948 " Wow he has been here awhile , and driving 800 miles a week , and dealing with 2 teenaged boy's We can honestly forgive him for not spending more time here!

I see you havent airbrushed her yet. It would be nice if those would work with Macintosh . I want a Decent player , just not an ipod , with maybe the expetion of the new Classic , 160 GB is a LOT of room , and I could put my whole educational system on it then have room left over for a bunch of other things ,.....Like , hm .......I dunno maybe some , ummm , nahhhhhh guees not ,.....Cant put an MD in it !

More of a Billiards Fan , and formula 1 , Grand Prix fan myself . As for Billiards , .......... I am a One Pocket player , of a higher caliber . I used to like US Football , but that was way back when it was a Game , and not a Business. Guy's make more money in 1 day now than we will see in our lifetime. Disgusting . But to Atrac , it most definately sounds better than Itunes AAC , after a more carefull listen last night of Wish You Were Here , that I just downloaded from Itunes , I was dissappointed , gotta go buy the Vinyl

Amen ! ( I think I am that guy recording the stuff off the net )

Somewhat agreed 440 , but who says it has to be in Hi MD to sound good ? I bought my first iTunes Music card yesterday , afer having my Macintosh experience for almost ayear nowgoing from the 1rst gen Macbook , to a Full fledged Macbook Pro Core2Duo . So I put my card in at iTunes , bought Synchronicity from The Police ( one of my all time favorite albums) Burned it to CD Using iTunes Standard audio cd output w/no gap , Text etc turned on . Result when I put it into my Cd Player , Optical out to Edirol MA-10D 's ( they really do sound good for there size) But I immediately noticed that it didnt sound very good compared to the real CD or Vinyl which I dont have at the moment , hence the download. So I decide to make a copy for one of my guitar students , Optical to Sony MD , R50 , sync record , and Output the MD to the speakers to monitor . Immediately after starting the recording , I stopped halfway across the room and had to turn around and question what I was hearing , It sounded so much better than the CD , I am not kidding , High frequencies were crispy , and a lot cleaner . That is the Atrac conversion doing its job . Just my 2 cents . (update ) I just bought Wish You Were Here , from iTunes Plus ( The DRM free zone , and higher bit rate ) The results were dramatic the standard iTunes , versus iTunes plus , WOW what a difference , went into File info , made slight volume adjustments (track 1 was a little low , 2 was a little high etc) Selected Gapless Albumn , dropped it to CD and am listening to it now , sounds pretty darn close to the real thing .( It is Being Put on MD as I type this)

For me the Atrac sound is the closet thing to Analouge , minus the noise , it has a Warmer feel to than most digital medium , and it is the best balance bertween Uncompressed and Portable . That is partly due to the hardware , and Codec

Nice First ! Bueno Bueno!

Thank you Ray .

Yeah how would this work for The RH1 ? , ..... Seems that if the Update some but not others , anything that has firmware updat abilty , that isnt taken care of , then a bit of bias , and confusion is going to result . Just like the fact that Some HiMD is MP3 capable and others arent . The HiMD player only models arent MP3 capable but the Recorders of three or four types are . What is the point ? If you can transfer MP3 to your HiMD but cant use it in the Player , that is what they Need to fix. Although I have mostly MD's , I also have abou 18 GB of MP3's of educational material and music , samples , etc , I can play them in the RH1 , but cant play them in the Player ........... See , that right there is the only reason I would want an MP3 player , but then I have to carry two players , most of my music is on MD . And to another comment about Sony Owing us . I went to Sony Global , and looked at the History , the Barely even mention MD , in fact they only mentioned two PLAYER models , no mention of the FIRST or The BEST , they didnt even Mention a recorder . So obviously MD leaves a bad taste in thier mouth in some way , that they just will not speak . Here is the link http://www.sony.net/Fun/design/history/1990.html The Mention the NT1 , and it was only made for 1 year , but they dont mention the MZ1 Go Figure.

It will upload to Mac , with MD Tansfer 2.0 , and will be imported as standard wav files , instead of encoded ATRAC. NO DRM ... It will not upload Optical PCM recordings , but all Hi MD Line or Mic recordings (HiSP,HiLP,PCM) will get imported as WAV , so whatever editor you wish to use or MP3 converter you wish to use wil work fine . It seems that, that is the One intelligent thing Sony did , and it should have been done for both Systems Win/Mac to be equally fair . But this is one area where the Mac has the edge over Windows I am on a Macbook Pro by the way .

Thx Pete , I needed that .

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Guy's , I just want to say , that , I got to uptight when dealing with a couple of situations , and I let things get out of control . I will most definately exersize more self control , and do my best to respect the enviornment , and decorum of these boards . This is in fact Basically the only forum I belong to. So it is Kind of important to me , and maybe I take things a little too personally . Forgive me , and allow me a little room for my eccentricity . TC

Yeah WMA an "Open " media .......? Since when .

Ray , I have one of those , For line input recording, or guitar direct , it is a pretty cool musical sketch pad, th Mics , and mic inputs are a little noisy and getting your stuff into the computer , is a several step process , You Really have to sit down with the manual , go to Rolands site and get the PDF , then it will ease that decision. informed decisions always relieve regrets One of the cooler features , is the ability to import sounds to the drum pads , You can take wave samples and assign them to each pad , to create a real Marimba , or steel drum , or whatever , set of chinese gongs if you want , all pitch corrected , after you tweak em on the computer ,then import and assign them so the Drum pads become a playground , pain in the butt to set it up , but lots of fun when its done .

OK , I can agree with that . as I said no intention of starting a debate , but when I saw that , just the first 20 minutes of it had me laughing , I know quite a bit about the Ancient Mesopotamian History and Babylonian History , their Dieties and so forth , and this guy just flat didnt do his homework .

SOOOOOO many untruths in that Movie , absolute rubbish . I watched it , and would love to have a conversation with that direct and writer . First , not to start a Religious debate , but according to the scriptures , a carefull read will show plainly and clearly that Jesus was NOT born on DEC 25 First clue ...... The sheppards were OUT in the fields with their sheep , over night actually sleeping outside with them , when the angels appeared . DEC at Night , ????? in Isreal , like most other places in the northern hemisphere is VERY cold. Second , Jesus wa born 6 months after John , (His Cousin , who became John the Babtist ) how do we know this , Mary visited Johns mother when she about to give birth , and Mary was 3 months pregnant , John was born in the early spring, placing Jesus in early Fall , not in the end of Dec . his statements are not based on fact and are base almost entirely on congecture. Dec 25 is a Pagan celebration though , it history dates way back thru different cultures and was adopted just after Constantine made Christianity a "State Religion " giving birth to the Roman Catholic Church . It had nothing to do with Jesus's Birth

Because all the other companies are busy trying to make the "iPod Killer" so they look second place from the start , all the attention s focused on the iPod ( when in fact as you point out , there Are a bunch of other DAP's out there and a lot of them are Better !) But iTunes is now the #1 online market place , and the iPod is what syncs with it , and does so for both Win/Mac Not many of the others sync with a Mac or iTunes , I think that might be why the iPod gets the issues.

Mexico huh ,...... The dinero will buy enough pesos so you dont need the Cardboard head to Cazumel and get a Beach chair!!!!!

Apparently I got nailed with the "Old School " moniker as well Bob , When we were kids , we had the BIG lego sets 3000 plus pieces, Now you do them on the computer in 3D ( Free download by the way ) ...... But in agreement ,..... gone is the tactile sensation , of the hands being connected to , and used with . It seems more tangeble , more involved with . Now everything is disconnected , people are disconnected , I think that in itself is why I didnt connect with the iPod , You do Have a Lifes worth of stuff in your pocket , never have to look up , or even have a conversation anymore . Video , Albumn covers , Podcasts, Websurfing , everything right at the finger tips , your thumbs and fingers become your voice , email , and messages , never any real discussion . That is what the iPod represented to me , so if I said something offensive I apologize ..... but it isnt just the iPod , it is society , times have changed.Cellphone Typing Competitions have replaced Spelling Bee's , ....... I still type in a hunt and peck style .

Skip , .... the FIRST thing you typed ,.... The VeRY first words from you , were antagonistic . and yet you claim that you were "Reacting to something I said to you " I didnt even KNOW YOU ........ " Man this guy is really Slammin the Zoom ... and then with the type of questioning proceed to indicate that you felt I had no idea what I was talking about ......... You CAME here insulting . I had every intent on giving a complete , thourough , technical and real world presentation of the H2 , not a hyped up "Hey this is the NEW THING ...GET IT NOW " kind of review . The technical material , and nature of the post, had you taken the time to actually read it , would have told you that I have a fair knowledge of sound equipment. But You DIDNT read it , you Skimmed , saw what you wanted , and Blasted me , without having any idea what I was saying . and you call me arrogant !!!!!!!!!!!! wow . making statements , like " He is a Teacher ??? Boy I am glad I am not one of HIS students " I got a message that someone took the time to defend me , I read the post at oreilly ,, Old School huh? guess I will have to accept that , I come from a place where when someone had some history , you gave them the proper space for it . thanks for at least sayin something , I appreciate it . Skip ....... with freinds like you ............who needs enemies? I just dont feel like this is an apology , sorry . It looks more like face saving to me .

Blues is a State of mind , not technical prowess . Over on stage6.com divx website you can get a lot of vids there B King , Lighning Hopkins , Muddy Waters , Cannonball , and Martin Sorcece's History of the Blues is a good set to get Ray ( might have to buy that one though ) I have it in Xvid , Divx, and DVD format . Glad you liked Rattle and Hum though , especially the Harlem Street scene where the Edge and Bono were watching the two street performers The Harmonica player , and Guitar player , here is a Link to who those two guys are http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=81jrr3Dxpr4 on youtube , look up user "kudzurunner" he is the harmonica player

Good post !

Ok 440 , I will take that one , in fact I watched the Apple iPod release this morning for the new iPods , ...... hate to admit it but I think I want one myself . Especially the Classic at 160 gb ,...... that is a lot of storage.