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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:43:46 EDT
From: <DMW122@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.audio.car
Subject: Why can't I keep a FM station?


I was not happy with the factory Delco system in my family's Beretta.  So,
against my mother's wishes (a real pain in the you know what), I removed the
Delco unit and installed a high quality Sharp system.  I know, I know.  Not
much of an improvement, but when I replaced the rear 6x9's with Pioneers and
put Pioneer 6-1/2" 2-ways in the front door, there was a dramatic increase
in quality.  (Keep in mind that this Delco system really REALLY had to
go...) My problem is that my mother doesn't like it.  She admits it sounds
better, butfor some reason this Sharp headunit can't keep a radio station.
This is what I did: I noticed that because Chevrolet has to be different and
have a non-standard size antenna cable, I went to Radio Shack and bought a
GM adapter.  Then, I bought a Sparkomatic (ick, I know) FM booster.  When
all the connections were made, I sat in the driveway, turned it on and could
pick up every radio station within a 50 mile radius.  I was happy....  Until
I started going down the road...Much to my dismay I couldn't KEEP a single
radio station...not even the VERY strongest of signals.  I thought it might
be the Sparkomatic FM booster, but it wasn't.  I also thought engine
interference was the culprit, but going down a steep hill in neutral with
the engine off resulted in the same problem.

Does anyone have ANY ideas as to what might be happening here?  My mother is
the official owner of the car and she has informed me that if I can't pick
up herprecious radio stations the Delco is going back in.  (The Delco had no
problem keeping a radio station)
Any advice, no matter how insignificant would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Duane       DMW122@psuvm.psu.edu
From: mitch@lsil.com (Mitch Sako)
Newsgroups: rec.audio.car
Subject: Re: CD Changer Sound Quality
Date: 10 Sep 92 20:46:14 GMT
Reply-To: mitch@lsil.com
Organization: LSI Computing Systems

In article 19449@news.duc.auburn.edu, kevins@eng.auburn.edu (Kevin Sullivan) writes:
>I'm thinking of getting a CD changer for my 89 Plymouth Voyager.  
>It has the "premium" factory system with Infinity speakers, multiple 
>amps, etc. and sounds pretty good, so I don't want to mess with what's 
>already there.  I'd like to put the changer under the driver's seat.
>Most changers I've seen have an RF modulator to play through the radio. 
>I just don't see how this can sound as good as running direct into the 
>amps.  The salespeople at the local shops say you can't tell the 
>difference.  Has anyone done a comparison?  Notice a difference?  If so, 
>please describe.  Also what's this I hear about changers scratching discs?
>If this is the case maybe I don't want one.
>Also what are the differences in sound quality in the different changers?  
>I can hear differences in home units and picked the NAD 5000 to replace 
>my old Technics that sounded like crap.  Unfortunately most shops around 
>here aren't set up to compare changers against one another, or direct 
>connect against RF modulated.

My only comment is that you will not be disappointed with the RF modulator
if you buy the Sony changer.  I can't speak for the others but you don't gain
much with the direct connect.  2 cents worth.

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Newsgroups: rec.audio.car
From: davidv@davidv.sco.COM (David Vangerov)
Subject: Re: Car Discman?
Organization: Apathetic Surf Club (we don't surf and we don't care)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:15:33 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.141444.23540@news.duc.auburn.edu>, kevins@eng.auburn.edu (Kevin Sullivan) writes:
|> 
|> I want to put cd sound in my minivan.  I just want to add cd to my existing 
|> Chrysler/Infinity stock system because it sounds pretty good.  I've just 
|> about rejected indash units because someone will see it, smash my window, and
|> take it, and changers because I figure I'll do most of my listening at home: 
|> when I go out I'll grab what I want to listen to and I don't want to have to 
|> load them into a cartridge every time.
|> 
|> So I think a portable is the way to go.  When I leave the car, I can take it 
|> with me or stash it in the glove box.  (I know, I could do that with a pullout 
|> but this way I also get a portable cd player.)  
|> 
|> Is any body using a portable wired into their car system?
|> 
|> Do the non "car specific" units skip so bad that I need to spend the extra 
|> bucks on e.g. a Sony Car Discman?
|> 
|> How does car discman skipage compare to that of indash units and changers?
|> 
|> What about those special mounting pods for use with portables in cars?
|> 
|> Anything else I should know before making a decision?

i had really good results with a D66, the mount plate for it, and a 
cassette adapter. sound was pretty clean (i'm sure the road noise
masked any problems). i mostly used it for long car trips only. when
running around town, i would simply play tapes, but when driving down
to LA or some other long distance, i'd bring the CD player with  me.
the mount-plate absorbs shocks very nicely. hardly a skip ever...

i've since upgraded my stereo to an in-dash removeable face-plate
CD player, and have been really happy with that. very few skips 
with the in-dash unit (and i have to do something really stupid
to get it to skip, like go over a curb).

-- 
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Newsgroups: rec.audio.car
From: jkalet@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (sk8tr)
Subject: Alarms
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:34:22 GMT

ok I'm going to be buying an alarm soon for my '85 Corolla LE, and 
have selected 3, of which I need some advice on...

here's what im looking at...

Seco-larm (E-200) vs. Excalibur (900gtx) vs. Avital (Champion)
assuming all standard, (w/o options)

ps A remote started kill is going to be ESSENTIAL in my area...
thanks

-- 

   sk8tr
 ________/
   O   O
Newsgroups: rec.audio.car
From: george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow)
Subject: Experience with Panasonic CD head unit...
Originator: george@unixg.ubc.ca
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:11:42 GMT

Howdy,
A friend of mine is planning on buying the Panasonic DP38 CD Head-unit
for his new car. I was wondering what people on the net's experience with
Panasonic CD players have been. I've seen a lot of people with Sony,
Pioneer and Alpine stories but I haven't seen anything about Panasonic.
What's the consensus on them?

George
From: mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel)
Newsgroups: rec.audio
Subject: Re: Sony's CD advertising
Date: 15 Sep 1992 18:02:50 GMT
Organization: Institute For Nonlinear Science, UCSD
NNTP-Posting-Host: lyapunov.ucsd.edu
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smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
: In article <RBS.92Sep11194253@mink.uk.ac.ed.aisb> rbs@aisb.ed.ac.uk writes:
: >In article <1992Sep11.135709.3716@bristol.ac.uk> smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
: >
: >   Sounds possible to me, and wouldn't surprise me if it happens that
: >   way.  If either MD or DCC does catch on, my bet would be on DCC, for
: >   reasons of (semi-)compatibility.  50% of the music sold in the UK is on
: >   prerecorded cassettes (CC), which would seem to imply that there are a
: >   lot of people out there with large CC libraries.  
: >
: >This is not quite all the story. Although most sales are still on
: >compact cassette it is thought that people buy them on impulse because
: >they are cheap and convenient;
: 
: True, but they still already own a lot of them.  My guess isn't based
: on the idea that they'll want to keep buying CCs because they are cheap
: and loveable, but that they will want to be able to keep on playing the
: bunch that they already own.  

But people ALREADY can get all the CC decks that they want.  Unless they
have a silly rule that "only one recordable audio medium is allowed per
household" they're not going to trash their present tape decks, and so I
don't quite see the supposedly huge advantage of DCC.  It's really not like
computer software that way, I believe.

The convenience and gee-whiz advantages of MD are apparent.

If I were a marketdroid, I would argue that as sound quality is irrelevant,
people are more willing to pay CD-type prices for a MD because it looks and
acts like one, rather than CD-prices for something that looks like a
cassette.

So Sony will make more money. Not to mention MD's utility in the computer
market, whereas DCC has none.  (DAT and 8mm have taken that niche already).

: Paul Smee, Computing Service, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UD, UK
:  P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk - ..!uunet!uknet!bsmail!p.smee - Tel +44 272 303132

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Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: dpunjabi@nyx.cs.du.edu (DINESH PUNJABI)
Subject: What is 4-channel / 6-channel modes in Surround Amps
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 05:41:16 GMT

As the title indicates, what are these modes and how do they affect the
sound reproductions ??

Your EMAIL responses will be highly appreciated

Rgds

Dinesh
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dpunjabi@nyx.cs.du.edu                Work: (303)-595-2901
From: ebe+@pitt.edu (Elmer Beachley)
Newsgroups: rec.audio
Subject: Re: AES/EBU
Date: 5 Sep 92 14:35:34 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


Thanks for posting the AES/EBU and SPDIF info.  I'm particularly interested
as I'm building a SPDIF optical to coaxial converter to interface to an
Audiomedia II soundcard.

I've got the Toslink (optical) receiver working and am  sending a 1v p-p,
low = 0v, high= 1v to the soundcard which it seems to ignore.  Now, my
"specs" on SPDIF are derived from net messages :-) so I'm wondering what
might be going wrong.

Specifically, does SPDIF need to see +0.5v (high) and -0.5v (low)?  Does
it matter if the levels are greater than .5v, say +/- 5v?  I'm thinking
maybe of using an RS422 driver feed off the Toslink receiver if I need
both postivie and negative voltage swings.

Any help/advice cheerfully appreceiated.

Elmer Beachley ebe@unix.cis.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: fineberg@win31.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel A. Fineberg)
Subject: Re: CD pricing
Keywords: Lets take a look here
Organization: CSC, NASA Ames Research Center, NAS Division
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 22:43:47 GMT
Reply-To: fineberg@nas.nasa.gov

In article <lb9rauINNf95@male.EBay.Sun.COM>, checksix@flyboy.EBay.Sun.COM (Al Conte) writes:
|> In article <25792@castle.ed.ac.uk> mjo@castle.ed.ac.uk (M J O Clark) writes:
|> >If I were you, I would not complain about the phenomenal price of CDs
|> >($15...)
|> >
|> >I have been paying on average stirling #12 (~$24) for a few years, and
|> >would just LOVE to find a CD priced at stirling #7........:-)
|> 
|> 
|> Well, you may look at it as adeal where you are but, when a CD costs less than
|> $2.00 bucks to make and distribute, then there's some bigtime financial raping
|> going on.
|> Think back a hundred and some odd years:
|> The last time we americans got fed up with being kicked in the wallet, we trashed
|> your tea!!!!!!!
|> Lets have a CD burning party !!!
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I'm sure the record companies would love this (especially afterwards when you
decide that maybe you want to replace some of the CDs you destroyed).  However,
I doubt if anything will change the situation.  I know I'm not going to stop
buying CDs. 

Sam
|> 
|> 
|> Al
From: eeh@gasco.uucp (Eric Hutchinson x1589)
Newsgroups: rec.audio
Subject: Re: Ground Loops
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:47:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: gasco.1992Sep14.154714.15666
Organization: Northwest Natural Gas, Portland, OR

In article <19920914.051902.498@almaden.ibm.com>, BARRON@RHQVM14.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
> Try this one....
> 
> The Hummm, and other problems (wavy bar running up the screen, etc) are
> usually due to ground loops through the cable system/your system.
> 
> Try using a pair of back to back 75 - 300 ohm matching transformers
> 
> That is
> 
> Coax (from wall) to (75==>300) to (300==>75) to Coax to TV.
> 
> This should isolate the cable Co's ground and only introduce a very minute
> loss.
> 
> Organization: Advantis Network Engineering and Planning
> Disclaimer: This reflects the poster's views, not those of Advantis
> News-Software: Usenet 3.0
> X-X-From: Dave Barron
> 

I tried this on the tv cable and it did not appear to resolve the problem.  Do
I need to do this to the cable into the stereo also?  I appear to have stopped
the feedback by putting a 3 into 2-prong plug on the tv power cord and plugging
that into the common surge protector.  
Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: fineberg@win31.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel A. Fineberg)
Subject: Re: Sony MD !!! absolutely great
Keywords: Sony, MD, Mini-Disk
Organization: CSC, NASA Ames Research Center, NAS Division
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 18:59:36 GMT
Reply-To: fineberg@nas.nasa.gov
Distribution: rec

In article <klebl.715865697@tardis62>, klebl@iis.ethz.ch (Marcel Klebl) writes:
|> 
|> On december 1992 there will be 2 machines on the market.
|> 
|> 1) only player machine :
|> 
|>    really small, i would say tiny. Looks like the newest design
|>    of a Walk Man.
|> 
|>    Costs: 800 sFr. (~ 1100 $)
|> 
|> 2) player and recorder
|> 
|>    a little bit bigger. The design isn't perfect.
|> 
|>    Costs: 1000 sFr. (~ 1400 $)
|> 
|>    There will be a newer one on the market next year. This one
|>    looks really great.
|> 
|> Until december 1992 there will be aproximatly 300 titles available
|> on the market. The price of an MOD-CD (pre recorded) will be as 
|> the prices of an normal CD.
At these prices I could just buy a DAT, AND a high CD player with digital output
to make my own tapes (with full 16-bit digital sound, no compression), and 
still pocket a few hundred dollars.  MD will never succeed at double
the price of DAT (not that I think DAT will succeed in the consumer market).
I also doubt the prices of the discs will be competitive with CDs at first,
especially with the size of the market for >$1000 players.

Sam 
Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: dcheenne@unlinfo.unl.edu (Dominique J. Cheenne)
Subject: Phone # of HH Scott Inc., wanted
Keywords: scott
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:08:36 GMT


The subject says it all. I would be grateful for the info.

Dominique J. Cheenne
dcheenne@unlinfo.unl.edu

PS: The old number used to be (201) 662-2000 but has been disconnected...
From: chrisc@gold.gvg.tek.com (Chris Christensen)
Newsgroups: rec.audio
Subject: Re: Quality of Speaker Wire Inside your Speakers
Date: 14 Sep 92 23:22:41 GMT
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA

In article <1992Sep14.145054.20921@pony.Ingres.COM> mossj@Ingres.COM 
(Operator) writes:

>I have wanted to try and upgrade my speakers but as funds are low I thought
>that I would open up my speaker cabinets (v. carefully!) and see what the 
>cross-over to speaker connection wire looked like. To my horror the wire is
>just ordinary CRAPPY basic connection wire that one would use for soldering
>between a switch and printed circuit board in a school science room!  

Geeze what did you expect!  I am sure that there are some
manyfacturers that will put in suitable with but wire costs money!

>I have decided to replace all the connectivity wire inside my speakers 
>(MISSION 707's) with some decent speaker inter-connect cable that I have
>spare - this is actually Van den Hul cable.
>Have any of you carried out a similiar exersize?

I have replaced some of the wiring in speakers with 14AWG zip as well
as using 14AWG zip in systems that I have built.

>ALSO, I may by some banana sockets and attach them to the rear of my speakers
>so that I can convert the connections into bi-wire mode. Have any of you done
>this and if so what did you do about the cross-over unit?

Split the crossover.  Physically, if possible, separate the sections
and wire them to different posts.  Mutual inductance between HF
section inductor and LF section inductors can cause funny sound from
your speakers! 
-- 
Chris Christensen                  The opinions I express are my own,
chrisc@gold.gvg.tek.com            and sometimes they are wrong!
916-478-3419 FAX 916-478-3887      After all, I *AM* only human.
Xref: sparky rec.audio:12205 rec.video:11012
From: bender@oobleck (Duke of Canterbury)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,rec.video
Subject: Re: Requesting info on Sony MDP333 Multi Format Laser player.
Date: 8 Sep 1992 08:06:43 GMT
Organization: SPARK's R US
Reply-To: bender@oobleck.eng.sun.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: oobleck
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

In article <1992Sep4.175954.4996@bnr.ca> Jonathan P. Crone <cronejp@bnr.ca> writes:
: >A local dealer has what seems to be a fairly decent price for a 
: >multi-format laser disk player.... a Sony MDP333.
: >
: >It comes with S-Video out, Optical Digital out, and plays
: >anything from the LaserDisks down to the CD-3's.

I've had my 333 for about 6 months, and have been very happy with it.  It's
only a singlae-sided player, and when playing multi-disc sets it gets a
little annoying having to get up off of my futon to flip/change the disc,
but other than that, I think it's a good LD player.  I also use it as my
primary CD player, and it has several nice features for CD use such as
on-screen time info that I find usefull when dubbing and using CD's for
home-video soundtracks.

The only strange thing about my player is that if there is a CD or LD in the
player when you turn it on, it starts playing the disc.  The manual says
that this is a configuarable option, but I haven't been able to configure
the player NOT to play the disc on power-up.  Other than that, I think it's
a great player for people just getting started in LD's.

mike
Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: pchi@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Eric Chi)
Subject: Re: Pro-Logic Recievers (STRAV1070/D1S/etc) Summary!
Keywords: pro logic surround receiver summary sony pioneer strav1070
Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 03:41:55 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.160008.20967@ultra.com> wayne@ultra.com (Wayne Hathaway) writes:
>I looked at the various Kenwoods myself recently, and was very
>surprised to find that the lower models do *NOT* have S-Video
>connections.  To me this is just too short-sighted, even though my
>current VCR doesn't have S-Video either.

Just to quote from a recent article in Stereo Reveiw (August 1992, p. 47):
"... Most important among these is the completely erroneous notion that VCR's
equipped with S connectors cannot be used except with similarly equipped monitors. ... In truth, S-VHS's single benefit- higher resolution- has to do only with
the bandwidth of the signal recorded on the tape, which the S connector doesn't
affect at all. The single benefit of the S connector, on the other hand, is 
equally applicable to all consumer VCR formats, "super" of otherwise.

> ...>
... (deleted)
> 


Eric.
Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: jstimson@jarthur.claremont.edu (John Stimson)
Subject: FOR SALE
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 04:36:39 GMT


FOR SALE:


Infinity Reference 3 Loudspeakers
125 Watts, 47 - 25K Hz +/- 3 dB
Bought 1.5 years ago for $400
Includes manuals and receipts - including transferrable 5 year warranty.
Yours for only $275 + shipping


Denon Digital->Analog preamp

D/A section: 4x oversampling filters, 2 16-bit converters/channel 
	     2 coax inputs, 1 optical input, plus digital tape loop (coax)
	     Takes all 3 standard sampling rates

Analog section: Unity gain with optional 16 dB gain stage
Analog Inputs: 2 RCA, 1 Balanced, and two tape loops
Analog Outputs: RCA or balanced, and D/A out (direct output from D/A stage)

Rated as a Class B D/A and Class C preamp by Stereophile in 1988.
I personally compared it against a Denon DCD-1500 series CD player played
through an Adcom GFP-565 (normal outputs), and it won bigtime in terms of
having a more lifelike, engrossing sound.
 
List $1500, selling for $350 + shipping

					John Stimson
					jstimson@hmcvax.claremont.edu
Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: root@Ingres.COM (Operator)
Subject: Internal Speaker Cabinet Wire
Summary: Bad quality wire inside speakers
Reply-To: mossj@Ingres.COM
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 15 Sep 92 11:07:54 GMT


This is a resent item as my last one was corrupted!


Have any of you out there opened up your speaker cabinets
to find that the wires that connect the speakers to the cross-
overs and sockets are of low quality?

I have spent a lot of money on FURUKAWA speaker cable and 
interconnects to find that the last foot of cable that is 
inside my speakers - MISSION 707's - is basic stuff that 
you would buy from Tandy for a science project!!!!

I am going to replace this wire with some Van den Hul 
speaker cable that I have spare and should get a decent 
sound improvement.

Have any of you done anything similar?

Have you turned your speakers into bi-wire connections ?


Thanks in advance of any replies.)


Jonathan Moss  (mossj@Ingres.com

================================



Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: pinghann@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Ping Hann Wang)
Subject: Need information for TASCAM's "Portastudio 464"
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 18:26:33 GMT


My friend abroad is looking for the compact-size multi-track cassette recorder
"Portastudio 464" by TASCAM company. I trid to find TASCAM's 800 phone number
but failed. The only thing I know about TASCAM is that a preamp with multi-
headphone jacks in our music library is TASCAM's product, but that preamp was
manufactured bt TEAC in Japan. I wonder if TASCAM has some affilitation with
TEAC. Could someone out there give me the phone number of TSACAM or any audio
store carrying TASCAM's products in LA area?


-- 
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Ping-Hann Peter Wang
Computer Science Department, UCLA

Newsgroups: rec.audio