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Wow , nice find. Can you still get Digital tape for that , or is it just for Regular tapes now?

The Buds might be rated for 5 hz , but if what is coming off the CD is only 20 , .......... 24khz just gives the headroom for the Phones to Breathe better , therefore they sound better. the simple fact of the recorded Material Being 20-20khz , means that , that is ALL your going to hear....... is 20- 20khz Subharmonic frequencies are indeed felt not heard , ultra harmonic (above the 18khz human threshold) adds "Air" some people would call it "Life" or "Realism " and it would still be correct , but your more feeling it than hearing it . I also have very good ears , and frequency charts to back it up , because I make a habit of getting my hearing checked evry 6 months or so in a Medical facility . ( when you work in the recording industry ,you Really want to know what your actually hearing , and what your not hearing ) Broader range headphone , just breathe better because they are "Over built" to be able to handle the wider range. If it produces 20 hz Easier than another headphone you will notice it , if it produces 20 Khz Easier and cleaner then you will notice it . All speaker have what is called a "Damping factor" and they are rated on what is called "Free Air Resonance" . That is the open air (Non Boxed , speaker sitting out of the cabinet) resonating frequency , (and its a Bad way to judge a Speaker) But the Damping factor has Everything to do with what your hearing and feeling.High Damping factors yield more efficient frequency handling capability . The headphone are just small enclosed speakers , the same mathematics , apply just the inclusion of the ear cavity as the room size , and the headphone casing as the speaker baffles , rearrange the equazions accordingly and will have the same damping factors as Near field studio monitors , only 1/4 of an inch in diameter ....... Lets talk Time alignment , phase coeffiecients and resonant projection before you come at me with anything about frequencies . 20- 20Khz , stays 20-20Khz , unless the source material changes and it is Not 20-20 but each piece of gear will only produce what is already there , some just do it better than others . That is why Tascam "Sounds " like Tascam , and Yamaha "Sounds like Yahama , Panasonics circuits are different than Sony , etc .

Ahhhh the Source is STrong with this one !!!!

Very interesting Ray , how can you Talk about frequencies you cant hear ? 20 hz- 20khz , is industry standard For every NICE mic out there Every Cd you own (with the Exeption of SACD ,and DVD's) are 16bit,Sample Rate 44.1 20-20khz . THE MD's that you own , everysingle one of them records in 20-20khz , The Amplifiers that reproduce the sound ,are.... you guessed it 20 - 20khz So if you dont like 20- 20khz , I will be waiting around to buy all that equipment your about to get rid of.

probablt the Zoom H2 due out in August , For immediate gratification the R-09 those are the only ones in the same budget range with mics built in, The MicroTrack requires additional investment of Good Mic cables (XLR to TRS) and Good Mics , it wont eally respond well to lesser mics, I know I owned it . I have a Lute player freind who is on his R-09 all th time now , I just dont like the breakable battery cover ,and the USB port being hidden inside the Battery compartment.

Let me know how the project turns out

So many sources.

Now , my young padawan , you must learn "The Way of the Source" There are Many sources , be aware of the Dark side of the Source. It will draw you into confusion. Debate , and Contention are at the heart of it . Sample rates and Conversionsion , Frequency Examinations, endless comparisons ......these are the ways of the Dark Side. They will prevent you from Truly "Hearing" ..... The Source . Seek the Source , It will be in Many forms ,...and yet it is one my Padawan . Whether it come as Optical , or Analouge ,.....even cloaked as USB . The Source is mysterious, and Powerful . It will Teach you Many things , Languages , Songs, Stories from of old read aloud and made available to the Source. Always Respect the Source , It is Everywhere , ...... All Around you Pulsing , Beating , Breathing , Giving endlessly to those who know it. May the Source be with you .

Hi Lil , your 510 recorded the discs in LP or Net mode . If you set the 510 to record in SP mode the discs should play in the other just fine . All pre LP MD's will show that a song is there , but you wont hear anything. some of them will actually say "LP MD" in the display telling you that it is the wrong format. Just setup the 510 to record in SP mode you will be ok.

Get an Audio Technica AT-822 , to go with it , and start Capturing stuff , or we will never forgive , and make you watch 53 hours of Perry Mason nonstop. and by the way , Welcome to MD President of the MDA Association (Mini Disc Addicts , Japanese Branch ) Bob ... Make him say the pledge , he is closer to where you are than me .

Other than mentioning the Sound Quality , and the need to RTM , you didnt realy review it . Maybe after you get a decent Microphone and find out what it is REALLY good at .( heheheheh iPod will never come close) when you have recorded your first Live concert , or some important event that you capture in such clear recreation of the moment and it soaks in what you have .......then you can review it !

I basically only use Regular MD's in HiMD mode on an 80 minute MD it breaks down to this. #1 PCM = ... not very long #2 HiMD SP = 2 and a half hours or so #3 HiMD LP = about 9 hours and 15 minutes First put the RH1 "Disc Mode" to HiMD , then insert a blank , hit the menu button go to "Edit-> format-> Format ok?->enter" That MD will be in HiMD mode You can just start recording if the RH1 is in HiMD mode but I have had a couple discs act funny , went back and formatted them in Hi and they worked fine aftewards

Very sorry to hear that you got burned dude, that sux.

That is why I said start with a 50k base , you can work up or down from there , quite easily But the Sharp mic inputs are quite noisy , I has a Sharp portable , liked the controls and the AUVI amp but the mic input was deplorable (and you just stated why , it has a 10kohm imp load on the input , ) again the higher the impedance the better the signal transfer. Most good acoustic guitar preamps will have OVER 1Meg impedance and the Piezo crystal elements need that ( soundboard transducers have a Mic level output , unless coupled to a preamp, ) with the Hi imp , The noise floor gets pushed way down away from the signal. here is a website you might wanna check out http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Jan03/arti...nceworkshop.asp you will notice that they stay in the 600 ohm and speak of impedances of 1 or 2 kohms, but that is dealing with older type standard mic elements , and what your dealing with is condenser mis with circuitry either built in , added to or both . What is brought out is the need to Get impedances to cooperate. Look at the specs for any mixing board , Behringer , Mackie , Tasco , Soundcraft , You have mics that are 250 ohms load, and mic inputs that are anywhere from 10 k , to 50 k , and in a couple of cases well over that . then look at the noise levels in each mixer , and again examine the imp load input . there will be a correlation Here is one of the preamps I have ( and often use as aMic pre , ) http://www.kksound.com/pdf/purepreamp_manual.pdf you will notice it has a 1Meg input impedance

I think the only thing I wanna do to it is replace the pots so I get clean signal thru it . It really is a great sounding piece , I am quite suprised at it . Wishing I would have had it a long time ago . Would have saved me a ton of money on other gear. No Phantom power , but very clean pre's . next week or week after , I will try to post something from it .( Wife is REALLY after me to finish the kitchen .)

Just got a Yamaha MD4S , a little old , but very nice sound .

How ? Old analouge circuitry I understand , but Digital I dont yet , and no time to learn , If you know of a link to show me how shoot it at me. Thx

Well the MD4S has arrived , I sat for 20 minutes , Checking ins/outs , used a Cheap ECM360 Sony mic on a Balanced Cable (XLRto XLR) and I must say the Mic pres are very nice in this machine , the EQ is very musical the Bass well defined and not overly boomy , My UDU drum sounded quite good , my Guitar was fat and clear , adding a bit of Mid on the EQ really brought out the presence . The Noise leve of the Mic in at Absolute Mic setting was suprisingly good , back off just a bit on the gain pot and raise the fader , practically no noise at all . I can see having a great deal of fun with this machine , I will have to replace a few pots as ther are a bit worn out and that is the only source of noise ( Scratchy , contacts , ) but what can you expect from a Machine that is subjected to Japanese weather , and as old as it is . The problems it has are fixable . The sound quality exellent . Just wish it had digital out , that would be awesome. I played a VERY old Al Di Meola MD in it and added a little EQ , ......Man what a Difference , the old recording was a bit muddy to begin with , but the EQ on the MD4s is Very sweet , and the frequency divisions are right in the pocket . Yamaha MD4S , I will give it 4.5 out of 5 stars Detractions are , It isnt HiMD , and it doesnt have Optical out , ....If it had those two things , I would sell a buttload of my gear because I wouldnt want for anything else.

Yes but a truly good steak , Only needs the smoke of the grill and a little salt , pepper . Capturing audio needs to be in pure fidelity , I dont want to buy meat that has ALREADY been seasoned by someone else. Thier tastes are NOT my tastes. I have also been doing sound , And see it from a different viewpoint than you in that regard Ray . Gordon Hempton (The sound tracker) records in the best fidelity he can get , with NO "seasonings " just for the purpose of Bringing you to where he stood , and what he heard . So that you might be able to hear something and someplace you might Never have gotten to go . The same with ANY Nature Recordists Goal , is to have absolute fidelity of that moment in time. Just like the Photos you take of those grandkids running around , ....Why would you want to alter , that expression on her face as she has it buried halfway into a watermelon mess ? Just a thought ,......the "seasoning is ALways Post processing.

Well the Line out is regulated at 194mv , at an Impedance load of 10k ohms , the Minimum input level for the Mic is about 14mv and line minimum is 49 mv . I would say the line in is probably about 10 to 15 kohms , while the mic input is somehwere around 1 meg , ( with the sensitivity of the mic in it would very much suggest a Hi impedance input ) use a Varister instead of a Block resistor , on a breadboard ( experiment board ) start with seeting it up for a 50kohm Impedance and work you way up ( sensitivity increases as Impedance increases) If your input doesnt see a High output but gets the proper impedance you wont have as much noise ( white noise or hiss) if your input sees an impedance that is to low you will get a lot of noise raising the impedance load value and balancing Ouput/Impedance will yeild a good custom design. Just my two cents.

Im mad at you cause you said USA only so I didnt post .

Ttttt Thh Thannk you Bob ,... its Blue ,,........I gotta get it . MDA .. the only ones who understand me ,,, Waaaahahhhhhhgghh ( Just a little Melodrama.... a little) My kid wouldnt drink his miso soup this morning because he found a spider in it, then he asks me what kind of spider it was , I said ...."well lets see , It likes miso , and it was able to get into your bowl , ...Must be a Japanese Jumping spider " I think the spider was most grateful for the rescue supplied to him

Very cool Site , thx for the post . Ahhhhh the memories

I went to Hardoff again , but this time I refrained from buying music gear ,....well sort of .... I spent 80 dollars on a Bunch of very cool T Shirts , that are pretty much musical in nature , Logos on them include Miles Davis MXR Boz Scaggs and a bunch of others in pretty much new shape four of them were new (still had the Tags) But in the Junk section there was an MZ-R30 with ALL ACCESSORIES .... for 2100 yen AAGGGHHHHH 20 lousy dollars , and I had already bought the shirts ( I am going back to get it , its blue ...Must have it , Gotta have , Somebody STOP MEEEEEEEEEEE)

Are you saying that your Silver claws , found Bronze instead of gold whilst burrowing in the glittering mythryl mountains???? We can share that feeling . Practically none of the portables have "Dedicated Line out " they use the headphone port ,the line out was combine in the Headphone jack on later models and is selected in the menus . Menu-> option-> Audio Out-> Headphone/Line switchable but it isnt a true line out . The MZ-R900 is cool , is LP , and pre Net MD pretty well built solid metal casing , nice controls . just make sure you get info on how the unit has been treated , how MUCH it has been used I think the R70 had line out on it seperate from the headphone , I cant remember . good machine as well. etc See if you can find an MZ -G755 COOL machine My R50 is 1997 and still going