delta v Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 I have been debating for a little while now about getting one of the Onkyo HiMD decks, and I figured I would ask here what yall do when you want to listen to MD's at home. Do most people here just plug in their portable to a stereo? Because it seems that not many people have made the jump to a deck/bookshelf, but there isn't really another way, especially if you want a non-wired remote to listen from bed/across the room/ect.Any thoughts? Because 500+ is alot for the X-B8, but just getting the MD-105FX is already 300+, and would have to get speakers, reciever, ect... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdmania Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 I have been debating for a little while now about getting one of the Onkyo HiMD decks, and I figured I would ask here what yall do when you want to listen to MD's at home. Do most people here just plug in their portable to a stereo? Because it seems that not many people have made the jump to a deck/bookshelf, but there isn't really another way, especially if you want a non-wired remote to listen from bed/across the room/ect.Any thoughts? Because 500+ is alot for the X-B8, but just getting the MD-105FX is already 300+, and would have to get speakers, reciever, ect...First of all I don't have the money for the Hi-MD deck. Secondly I like the feature on RH1 that can actually normalized and level each track automatically from different CDs. That is the most important feature for me. I don't think the onkyo has this feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted January 8, 2007 Report Share Posted January 8, 2007 A Hi-MD deck would be nice, but running a line cable from the RH1/line out directly to a stereo's aux in seems to work fine and sounds more than passable. In fact I usually plug the line out into my JB980's aux in and use DAC and amplify about +10dB mode to give the rather feeble line out signal a boost on its way to the main stereo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellen Posted January 8, 2007 Report Share Posted January 8, 2007 Secondly I like the feature on RH1 that can actually normalized and level each track automatically from different CDs. That is the most important feature for me. I don't think the onkyo has this feature.Does it? I didn't know that! Is this only when recording optical from CD or also when recording via SonicStage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted January 8, 2007 Report Share Posted January 8, 2007 It's just a playback normaliser (on the RH1 itself) so it doesn't matter how the disc is recorded... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich1068 Posted January 8, 2007 Report Share Posted January 8, 2007 Line Out method in the car and at home for me. My home CD is borked anyway so really that's my only option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted January 8, 2007 Report Share Posted January 8, 2007 I may be completely wrong but I thought the Onkyo's do have a similar feature. I say I may be completely wrong as my Japanese is not so hot and I didn't read the manual in detail but when dubbing CD's to MD, with the DLA-Link Option on, it scans through the cd before recording to do a "Peak Search". I haven't tested this properly but I thought it may be some kind of normalization. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delta v Posted January 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2007 Are there any of the Hi-MD players with a non-wired remote? I'd like to be able to listen in bed, but am way too lazy to have to get out and turn it off when I want to go to sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted January 8, 2007 Report Share Posted January 8, 2007 I may be completely wrong but I thought the Onkyo's do have a similar feature. I say I may be completely wrong as my Japanese is not so hot and I didn't read the manual in detail but when dubbing CD's to MD, with the DLA-Link Option on, it scans through the cd before recording to do a "Peak Search". I haven't tested this properly but I thought it may be some kind of normalization.Peak Search just finds the loudest point of a CD, so you can set the overall recording level to that peak to avoid clippng (going into the red 'over +0dB' level). The level of individual tracks is not adjusted which is what normalisation would do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted January 8, 2007 Report Share Posted January 8, 2007 Peak Search just finds the loudest point of a CD, so you can set the overall recording level to that peak to avoid clippng (going into the red 'over +0dB' level). The level of individual tracks is not adjusted which is what normalisation would do.Great (so in other words it's just used by the system to determine the rec. level) - thanks for clearing that up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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