It really makes my Star Wars books that have sound effects in the background
behind the narrator sound outstanding.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Chaltain" <chalt...@gmail.com>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: digital talking book player
Well, what it was designed for and what it will do are different questions
than what NLS is committing and willing to support.
I for one have no problems funding the NLS, the Talking Books program and
the move to a digital format. As a US tax payer though, I would not be
happy having my tax dollars spent to pay for and support a music or MP3
player for the blind. blind consumers, like everyone else, have other
options for music and MP3 players. If this needs to be subsidized for the
blind then I think that would fall under a different program.
The NLS also needs to travel a thin line here. I doubt very much their
funding from Congress included any kind of development or support for a
generic MP3 player. I'd hate to have this funding jeopardized because the
general public found out it was being used to fund the development and
support of high quality MP3 players for the blind.
Remember too that the patrons of the NLS service with computers and the
desire to play MP3's are a minority of their overall patron population.
I think the NLS official "no support" statement for anything other than an
NLS book an an NLS cartridge is appropriate. Since, as far as I can tell,
they aren't prohibiting anyone from using a flash drive, or playing MP3's
on the player, there's nothing wrong with users sharing this information
and their findings.
I agree the player seems to be able to handle music and was made with high
quality audio components, but I'm not sure that still isn't appreciated
when listening to spoken recordings. I prefer listening to the same book
on my DTBM over my booksense, and I assume this is in part due to the
better sound quality. I believe the NLS also has music and other
recordings in their collection. I also wouldn't be surprised if this was
in part to anticipate the availability of multimedia content (voice with
music) in the future. A book on Mozart that also included some
performances for example.
--
Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com
On 3/25/2010 11:48 AM, Joe wrote:
Here's something to think about. If the NLS players weren't made to also
play music, they probably wouldn't have designed the headphone Jack and
amp to play stereo. Also, the audio quality of that speaker is clearly
designed for something bordering on hi fidelity. The base response of
that player is far superior to anything you would need for the spoken
word.The frequency response goes above and below the voice range. Its far
superior to the plex talk and other player recorders that are
ridiculously over priced for what they are. I'll. bet if we could buy
this player, it would cost at least $300
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