710 is REALLY LOUD. No hack required!

[Guest Anonymous]

There is NO HACK required here (you shouldn't hack it anyway, or you'll invalidate your waranty. It's a beautiful machine.)

Read p 34 and p 35 in your instruction manual (or the section headed "Adjusting the sound - Virtual Surround 6 Band Equaliser)."

The automatic settings that it came with are quiet so as not to ruin people's hearing (and to stop SOny being sued - I guess).

What you do is:

1/ On your remote Press Sound repeatedly until your display says "SOUND".

2/ Press and HOLD the Sound Button for about 2 seconds or more.

3/ Slide the jog lever repeatedly (either left or right, it doesn't matter) to select the sound mode.

4/ NOTE all of the other options are very quiet (ie HEAVY and POPS etc). SO you have to select CUSTOM 1

5/ Press the jog lever (press it IN, like a push button).

6/ You should now have a row of little lines. This represents your 6 Band Equaliser !!! (Definitely DON'T throw your beautiful new MD away young lady!)

7/ Each little line can be moved up and down to make that particular frequency higher or lower.

8/ Move the volume button repeatedly. Each time you move it up (ie volume higher), the little line will move up, and down for down (of course). TO set that first little line, push the jog dial to the RIGHT.

9/ Now you'll be on the 2nd little line, and so you should do the same again, gor each little line.

10/ Press the button IN when you're done.

Hey Presto! A REALLY LOUD mini disc player.

Look forward to shouting at you all in old age.

:wink:

[Guest Anonymous]

Are you sure this won't cause any crappy sound from oversampling?

[Guest Anonymous]

This applies to the PLAYBACK only. Recording level is automatic (but you can change that too if you like (as per instruction manual).

If you find that the music is TOO loud even, you can just turn down some of the frequencies.

EG I was always told that the equaliser settings for Rock should look like this (kind of like a letter U but flatter).

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(damn, the shape didn't come out right on screen - but you can see it in your mind, right?)

and the inverse for more vocal types of music.

I have mine set to a very flat U shape which sounds perfect for most types, even classical.

[Guest Anonymous]

Equalisers are meant to attenuate loud frequency bands and amplify quieter ones, or, to properly flatten your units frequency response. When you use an EQ for the sole purpose of making your music louder, surely you'll be harming the signal...

[Guest Anonymous]

As you can see I'm currently a guest although I reckon I was once subscribed....anyway, I've been looking in T-Board where there seems to be the feeling that this unit's power output has beem severely limited?

It's said that there's only 1.2+1.2 mW, much less then than an N1 (4+4mW according to the manual) whose output I've found to be OK.

Fiddling about with equalizers surely shouldn't be necessary? I'll call back later if anyone would like to comment - I don't think I'll get a notification by e-mail so it may be a short time before I get to reply to any comments.

Thanks in anticipation.

[mAjEsTiC]

well the european model of the N710 is capped @ 1.2mW per channel unlike the N1 (5mW per channel) as u said...though Aus units are currently unaffected and no fiddling with the EQ settings won't make much of a difference in terms of the power outputted but it could give you an impression that the music is louder by adjusting the different frequency bands but while this may achieve a slight increase the volume of the music being played as NRen2k5 said previously it will consequently also distort the sound signature a bit...

[Guest Anonymous]

Thanks mAjEsTiC - it seems that the 710 is a non-no. It's been removed now from my possible shopping list.