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I don't use an iPod either, Andy, though I do have a cheap stick mp3 player for travelling. I was a huge user of MD for several years, but never progressed to the latest 1GB version: now seem to be moving inexorably towards the Zoom h2 for live recording....
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Not being much of a photographer, but being in possession of a camera which just before Xmas decided without any warning itself into an inert metal/plastic object (nor can anything be extracted from its flashcard, which was full  ), I bought one of these  which will delay purchase of a Zoom H2 for a month or two. I never got involved in MD recording; in those days I had one of those lovely little Sony DAT recorders which must have the most complicated miniature moving parts this side of Rolex, and it served me well for many years before jumping off a table and putting itself beyond repair. |
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Which 73cm guess would that be, btw, John?  Gosh. Either 73 is a typo or my brain failed to remember I guessed 72. I confess it was the latter  |
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« Reply #123 on: 00:50:15, 11-01-2008 » |
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Still damn close! Now be fair.
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« Reply #124 on: 09:52:34, 11-01-2008 » |
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You're way behind, t-p: MD has been with us for well over ten years, though it never quite established itself the way that many of us felt it should have. The discs are totally enclosed in a small plastic case about 7 cm square by 4mm thick, so rather dinky, and seemed to be the way forward for home and portable recording before recordable CD and then mp3 and the various other solid-state memory devices became available; smaller and more durable than a cassette, they still seem unwieldy when you realise just how many you need to store what can be fitted onto an iPod or similar, even the latest high-capacity ones which Andy D uses.
The first minidisc device I bought was a then top of the domestic range Sony, mainly as a an external ADC and sample rate converter for use with the Terratec EWS88MT 'sound card' I got in order to improve the audio quality of PC recordings. Stand-alone ADC/DACs were much more expensive then than they are now, and I got a recording device thrown in. About a year later I got a pocket minidisc recorder to use when lugging my Tascam DAT machine (a full size mains powered deck wil no mic inputs), would have been impractical. I think that ATRAC, the data compression system used by Sony, was/is rather better sounding than mp3. I might have bought into the high capacity minidisc generation had Sony had the sense to include an uncompressed option from the start, but they only introduced it when it was too late and solid state devices like the M-Audio Microtrack were on the horizon. There again, I think that a pocket minidisc is still the smallest high quality recorder on the market. With solid state pocket recorders with integrated stereo and/or quad mics now permitting over 3 hours of continuous CD rate recording on an SD or SDHC card, I think it safe to say then the minidisc is effectively obsolete technology now. |
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« Reply #125 on: 13:35:16, 12-01-2008 » |
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I think that a pocket minidisc is still the smallest high quality recorder on the market. I agree, Bryn! |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #126 on: 17:16:11, 12-01-2008 » |
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Went to HMV this afternoon and bought 4 CDs:
Mingus Ah Um - Charles Mingus
Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis
Spring Symphony/ Four Sea Interludes - Britten (LSO/ Previn)
Rite of Spring - Stravinsky + Prokofiev's Scythian suite ( Bernstein NYPO/ LSO)
All for a low price. Worth going into Manchester during the busy sales.
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« Reply #127 on: 21:30:23, 14-01-2008 » |
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I ordered a CD from a marketplace seller at amazon.de, principally for, er, concrete reasons, of "sounds of the Arctic", being particularly interested in the sounds of icebergs breaking up and so forth. Imagine then my disconfiture when the long-awaited package arrived today but instead contained an Esperanto Pronunciation Guide CD. (You couldn't make this up, could you?) I can't make up my mind whether to send it back or break open the seal and have a listen, I mean in its way it could be just as useful. What foxed me though was that it's part of a series called Reise (travel) Know-How.  |
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Imagine then my disconfiture when the long-awaited package arrived today but instead contained an Esperanto Pronunciation Guide CD. (You couldn't make this up, could you?)
Yes you can, Richard. In fact, my grandfather did (help make up Esperanto, that is).  |
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« Reply #129 on: 22:28:04, 14-01-2008 » |
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"sounds of the Arctic"
break open the seal and have a listen Ouch! |
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« Reply #130 on: 22:30:32, 14-01-2008 » |
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"sounds of the Arctic"
break open the seal I always hate seeing those docus filmedin the Arctic where they kill the baby ones with a club |
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« Reply #131 on: 10:01:22, 16-01-2008 » |
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 Nat King Cole - For Sentimental ReasonsCD + DVD + full color booklet I found it in The Hague for 3 euros. |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #132 on: 19:43:27, 16-01-2008 » |
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Now spinning:
Morton Feldman - I found it in The Hague
(full title: I found Nat King Cole in the Hague for 3 euros and now I'm feeling sentimental)
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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