Re: Yamaha TD500 Tuner - DAB+ Sample
Greetings, I have now heard the other two samples and interesting, surprised how much background hiss on the distant station, what kind of aerial did you use? The Fareham area of Southern England has been Colin Howard's home ever since July 1981, only the Lord himself knows for how much longer this will remain true. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Yamaha TD500 Tuner - DAB+ Sample
Didn't use any special aerial and as I said, I'm not at all surprised at the background hiss on the long distance station, had computers and other devices running so really the tuner did a pretty good job. On 03/08/2013, at 5:20 PM, Colin Howard wrote: > Greetings, > > I have now heard the other two samples and interesting, surprised how much > background hiss on the distant station, what kind of aerial did you use? > > > The Fareham area of Southern England has been Colin > Howard's home ever since July 1981, only the Lord > himself knows for how much longer this will remain true. > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
RE: Where can I find out about Cricket, Australian Rules Football and Rugby, and where can I find streaming audio for these sports?
Hi Kevin, A little addition to Robert's comprehensive outline. You and others interested can also find links from my page to ABC Grandstand under the 'ABC Sport and other Events' heading. http://members.optusnet.com.au/stephenjolley/livestreams Regards, Stephen Stephen Jolley Melbourne Australia -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert Nelson Sent: Saturday, 3 August 2013 4:40 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Where can I find out about Cricket, Australian Rules Football and Rugby, and where can I find streaming audio for these sports? Try http://members.optusnet.com.au/stephenjolley/livestreams Note that this is an Australian site so most football matches will only be heard between 1:00 am and 8:00 am on the east coast of the USA. Note also that Steve refers to Rugby League as NRL and there tends to be multiple games at the same time and the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) has 2 streams for each game. International cricket can currently be heard from 6:00 am to 1:00 pm on the east coast of the USA but as it is being played in England, the weather might determine when or if there is any play on a particular day. Australian Rules football may be heard between midnight and 10:00 am on the east coast of the USA but be warned that this is a game whose rules and terminology may be mystifying. It is a game that you need to have actually played to be able to understand what is going on. For that matter, cricket is also a game that you actually have to have played to appreciate the finer points of what is going on and what the terminology, tactics and strategies mean. Although it is not difficult to appreciate the danger of a 5 ounce ball being bowled at you at 100 miles per hour. If you calculate how long it takes a ball travelling at 100 miles per hour to cover 22 yards of a cricket patch, you will get some idea of how little time a batsman has to react to a ball which could be going behind, in front of or (if he is not careful) directly into the batsman's body. If you are interested in a more general audio stream about sport and have the program tapin radio browse through the Australian streams for ABC grandstand which is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's general sport stream which covers all kinds of sports. Bob Nelson - Original Message - From: "Kevin Minor" To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 3:24 PM Subject: Where can I find out about Cricket, Australian Rules Football and Rugby, and where can I find streaming audio for these sports? > Hi. > > > > I like all kinds of sports, and I'd like to learn more about Cricket. > Australian Rules Football would be fun, as well as Rugby. To make > this audio related, where can I find streams on Cricket, as well as > these other sports? > > > > Thanks in advance for help. > > Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY > > kmi...@windstream.net > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Yamaha TD500 Tuner - DAB+ Sample
Dane, do I understand rightly the D.A.B Plus station transmits a normal a.m signal on the mf band and superimposes the d.a.b therefore a normal a.m set will hear no signifficant difference, apart from the bandwidth being somewhat greater? What frequency was the d.a.b plus signal on? What happens when a signifficant distance from the source? On normal a.m it decreases in level during day and tends to fade at night, I wonder if d.a.b plus skips as does a.m and what it sounds like? I believe it is a great pity we went for the antequated system we have, as it seems to me d.a.b plus has a good deal going for it. I did hear a d.a.b plus signal back in 2004 when visiting New York, think the station was on 770kHz or thereabouts, it was a.m during darkness but had the d.a.b plus in the day. I noticed the signal was noticeably wider and had greater bleed-over, but I was only listening on a standard a.m-type receiver. The Fareham area of Southern England has been Colin Howard's home ever since July 1981, only the Lord himself knows for how much longer this will remain true. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Yamaha TD500 Tuner - DAB+ Sample
Greetings, Dane, off-topic but I must say it!! In a couple of hours time, plan to listen to our gallant chaps trying to score without losing more wickets! Strange game cricket eh! I don't like a game which is one-sided, I love it when there are three overs to go, forty runs to get, two wickets to fall!! Weather prospects seem a little dodgy, maybe some showers. Here in Southern Hampshire, some two hundred plus miles from Manchester, we had a lovely day Friday until a slight shower late afternoon then overnight a thunder storm but not really a lot of rain. Temperature at present is around 22C, sunny, a little breezy. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
re cricket podcast
Hi, this is to thank those of you who tried to help me with this. i am not doing very well with it yet, but will keep trying. colin, i don't know whether i thank you for that link you sent me, where one changes the date at the end. well, i have tried it, and it works. thanks again, brian. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
re cricket podcast
Hi, i have got there at alast. thanks again to colin and ray. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Digital recorder with simple cassette features?
Does anyone know of a good-sounding digital recorder that has the simple features of a cheap cassette recorder such as overwrite and append? I have an Olympus LS7 which makes fine recordings, but every time you hit record, you start a new recording. Unbelievably, there's no way to append, overwrite, or insert in to an existing recording. The only Olympus models that have these obvious and necessary features are on their dictation machines, which unfortunately only record in a highly compressed format. I tried the Bookport DT, but it was so slow in its responsiveness as to be almost unusable. If they improve the processing power, it would be great. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Digital recorder with simple cassette features?
That sort of feature - overighting, inserting or appending has never worried me as you've never ever been able to do nothing but Overight with a conventional cassette recorder anyway. If anyone can stretch their memory back that far they'll know that you had a length of tape to record on, you did your recording and if the end of the tape was reached then you had 2 choices, turn the tape over and record on the other 2 tracks of the cassette or rewind the tape and overight what you'd already recorded so the fact that digital recorders start a new file each time a new recording is started is nothing short of a feature sent from heaven as you run no risk of wiping what yo've already recorded and the only limit you have to worry about is just how much room in memory you have, I don't even think Minidisc recorders offered an "Insert" or "Append" function, it was up to the user with those recorders to combine or divide tracks where appropriate and manipulate them thus. So - given all that - let's see how you can use the present situation to your advantage. I use a Zoom H1 and one of the functions of that recorder is marking "On-The-Fly", if you're recording you can insert a mark into the recording thus when you load the recording into an editor such as Goldwave or Amadeus Pro you can go to the markers you've made in your recording. Each new recording starts a new file so just use your sound editor on your computer to load where appropriate, make new files with your editor and import the files from your recorder adding them where necessary, appending where necessary and inserting where necessary. As for cheap digital audio recorders? Well I've had my Zoom H1 for 3 years and its still going strong, simple operation, no menu system and cheap at under $100.00 though you may like to purchase the accessary pack and I think that costs around $50.00 extra but well worth it. On 04/08/2013, at 3:46 AM, Dave Scrimenti wrote: > Does anyone know of a good-sounding digital recorder that has the simple > features of a cheap cassette recorder such as overwrite and append? I have an > Olympus LS7 which makes fine recordings, but every time you hit record, you > start a new recording. Unbelievably, there's no way to append, overwrite, or > insert in to an existing recording. The only Olympus models that have these > obvious and necessary features are on their dictation machines, which > unfortunately only record in a highly compressed format. I tried the Bookport > DT, but it was so slow in its responsiveness as to be almost unusable. If > they improve the processing power, it would be great. > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Digital recorder with simple cassette features?
1st, you could both overwrite and append on cassettes. The only thing you couldn't do is insert. 2nd, Olympus, Sony, and all makers of dictation recorders know how valuable these features are, to easily correct mistakes on the fly etc. As do the makers of professional music recorders for computers, since Sonar, ProTools and every other one of them right down to simple ones like Total Recorder have these features. To take a bunch of separate files and edit them all together on a PC afterwords would be unacceptable both in a dictation or a professional audio situation. That's why these functions exist. In fact, Olympus considers these capabilities essential on a dictation recorder. So I asked why they weren't available on any of their high-quality audio models. And they just said: we don't think you need them there. Again, the question was: do you know of any digital recorders with insert, append, and overwrite functions that are not using the highly compressed dictation formats? If you do, please respond, even if you think these functions are useless. If you don't, there's no need to give an opinion on whether or not you think one needs these features. It's like someone asking you if you know of a good Italian restaurant, and you answer with, I think you should eat Chinese. - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 4:26 PM Subject: Re: Digital recorder with simple cassette features? That sort of feature - overighting, inserting or appending has never worried me as you've never ever been able to do nothing but Overight with a conventional cassette recorder anyway. If anyone can stretch their memory back that far they'll know that you had a length of tape to record on, you did your recording and if the end of the tape was reached then you had 2 choices, turn the tape over and record on the other 2 tracks of the cassette or rewind the tape and overight what you'd already recorded so the fact that digital recorders start a new file each time a new recording is started is nothing short of a feature sent from heaven as you run no risk of wiping what yo've already recorded and the only limit you have to worry about is just how much room in memory you have, I don't even think Minidisc recorders offered an "Insert" or "Append" function, it was up to the user with those recorders to combine or divide tracks where appropriate and manipulate them thus. So - given all that - let's see how you can use the present situation to your advantage. I use a Zoom H1 and one of the functions of that recorder is marking "On-The-Fly", if you're recording you can insert a mark into the recording thus when you load the recording into an editor such as Goldwave or Amadeus Pro you can go to the markers you've made in your recording. Each new recording starts a new file so just use your sound editor on your computer to load where appropriate, make new files with your editor and import the files from your recorder adding them where necessary, appending where necessary and inserting where necessary. As for cheap digital audio recorders? Well I've had my Zoom H1 for 3 years and its still going strong, simple operation, no menu system and cheap at under $100.00 though you may like to purchase the accessary pack and I think that costs around $50.00 extra but well worth it. On 04/08/2013, at 3:46 AM, Dave Scrimenti wrote: Does anyone know of a good-sounding digital recorder that has the simple features of a cheap cassette recorder such as overwrite and append? I have an Olympus LS7 which makes fine recordings, but every time you hit record, you start a new recording. Unbelievably, there's no way to append, overwrite, or insert in to an existing recording. The only Olympus models that have these obvious and necessary features are on their dictation machines, which unfortunately only record in a highly compressed format. I tried the Bookport DT, but it was so slow in its responsiveness as to be almost unusable. If they improve the processing power, it would be great. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Digital recorder with simple cassette features?
Well if you know so much about it all then what on earth did you waste our time for in the first place . You will find that many of those in the world of business who use dictation in fact use audio editors to edit the result of their work, you only have to look on various product web sites for dictation equipment and software. There are many people who would use say a Zoom H1 recorder for instance to record their dictation and then either do 1 of 2 things, feed the audio into a "Translator" or edit the audio thus illiminating unwanted portions such as coughs, dictation errors etc. In my previous message I described how a user could "Mark" a position whilst recording, this is similar to what users of cassette dictation machines could do, if memory serves me correctly the term was known as "Indexing". Our local Newspaper features a column called Bleeding Edge and this column has reported on the subject of Dictation many times over the past 2 years. Now be honest with yourself David, how can you "Append" to a cassette, just think about it for a moment, you only have a length of tape to use so if there's already material recorded on a tape when you continue recording or record from a certain point this will be erased. On 4/08/2013 9:08 AM, Dave Scrimenti wrote: 1st, you could both overwrite and append on cassettes. The only thing you couldn't do is insert. 2nd, Olympus, Sony, and all makers of dictation recorders know how valuable these features are, to easily correct mistakes on the fly etc. As do the makers of professional music recorders for computers, since Sonar, ProTools and every other one of them right down to simple ones like Total Recorder have these features. To take a bunch of separate files and edit them all together on a PC afterwords would be unacceptable both in a dictation or a professional audio situation. That's why these functions exist. In fact, Olympus considers these capabilities essential on a dictation recorder. So I asked why they weren't available on any of their high-quality audio models. And they just said: we don't think you need them there. Again, the question was: do you know of any digital recorders with insert, append, and overwrite functions that are not using the highly compressed dictation formats? If you do, please respond, even if you think these functions are useless. If you don't, there's no need to give an opinion on whether or not you think one needs these features. It's like someone asking you if you know of a good Italian restaurant, and you answer with, I think you should eat Chinese. - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 4:26 PM Subject: Re: Digital recorder with simple cassette features? That sort of feature - overighting, inserting or appending has never worried me as you've never ever been able to do nothing but Overight with a conventional cassette recorder anyway. If anyone can stretch their memory back that far they'll know that you had a length of tape to record on, you did your recording and if the end of the tape was reached then you had 2 choices, turn the tape over and record on the other 2 tracks of the cassette or rewind the tape and overight what you'd already recorded so the fact that digital recorders start a new file each time a new recording is started is nothing short of a feature sent from heaven as you run no risk of wiping what yo've already recorded and the only limit you have to worry about is just how much room in memory you have, I don't even think Minidisc recorders offered an "Insert" or "Append" function, it was up to the user with those recorders to combine or divide tracks where appropriate and manipulate them thus. So - given all that - let's see how you can use the present situation to your advantage. I use a Zoom H1 and one of the functions of that recorder is marking "On-The-Fly", if you're recording you can insert a mark into the recording thus when you load the recording into an editor such as Goldwave or Amadeus Pro you can go to the markers you've made in your recording. Each new recording starts a new file so just use your sound editor on your computer to load where appropriate, make new files with your editor and import the files from your recorder adding them where necessary, appending where necessary and inserting where necessary. As for cheap digital audio recorders? Well I've had my Zoom H1 for 3 years and its still going strong, simple operation, no menu system and cheap at under $100.00 though you may like to purchase the accessary pack and I think that costs around $50.00 extra but well worth it. On 04/08/2013, at 3:46 AM, Dave Scrimenti wrote: Does anyone know of a good-sounding digital recorder that has the simple features of a cheap cassette recorder such as overwrite and append? I have an Olympus LS7 which makes fine recordings, but every tim
Re: Digital recorder with simple cassette features?
Well I asked because I can't find what I'm looking for, and thought someone
else might have found something I missed. All I'm finding are either
high-quality recorders like my Olympus LS7 or your Zoom H1 that have none of
these editing features, or dictation recorders that have all these features,
but very poor sound quality. Is it really that unthinkable that someone who
wants dictation editing features might also want good sound? I did look on
some dictation equipment web sites, and one of them perfectly described what
a dictation recorder should be.
Digital Dictation Recorders are especially well-suited for physicians,
attorneys, investigators, and business users where it's a requirement to
accurately construct sentences and paragraphs as you go, for later
transcription. If you make a mistake, merely rewind, and play forward to
that point, then hit Record
and continue! A true "dictation" recorder lets you listen to what you
dictated, rewind and replay it, and make any changes to it as you go ("on
the fly editing"). You can insert a new sentence in the middle of an old
one, overwrite from a certain point onward, or go back to a dictation
created earlier in the day and modify or append to it. Digital dictation
recorders are perfect for dictating correspondence, reports, observations,
or any type of dictation needs. ("
Unfortunately, all the recorders they sell only record in highly compressed
formats. I do agree that index marks are very helpful if you have to do the
editing later on the computer, but it's so much easier to edit right as
you're recording. However, if what I want simply doesn't exist, can someone
suggest a good, accessible dictation recorder that has these features?
Perhaps the sound quality will be acceptable for some applications, and I
can use my LS7 for the rest. And by the way, you can easily append to a
cassette recording, provided the recording didn't go all the way to the end
of the side. Just go to the end of the recording, and continue from there.
I've often added new material to a cassette recording I made previously.
- Original Message -
From: "Dane Trethowan"
To: "PC Audio Discussion List"
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: Digital recorder with simple cassette features?
Well if you know so much about it all then what on earth did you waste our
time for in the first place .
You will find that many of those in the world of business who use
dictation in fact use audio editors to edit the result of their work, you
only have to look on various product web sites for dictation equipment and
software.
There are many people who would use say a Zoom H1 recorder for instance to
record their dictation and then either do 1 of 2 things, feed the audio
into a "Translator" or edit the audio thus illiminating unwanted portions
such as coughs, dictation errors etc.
In my previous message I described how a user could "Mark" a position
whilst recording, this is similar to what users of cassette dictation
machines could do, if memory serves me correctly the term was known as
"Indexing".
Our local Newspaper features a column called Bleeding Edge and this column
has reported on the subject of Dictation many times over the past 2 years.
Now be honest with yourself David, how can you "Append" to a cassette,
just think about it for a moment, you only have a length of tape to use so
if there's already material recorded on a tape when you continue recording
or record from a certain point this will be erased.
On 4/08/2013 9:08 AM, Dave Scrimenti wrote:
1st, you could both overwrite and append on cassettes. The only thing you
couldn't do is insert. 2nd, Olympus, Sony, and all makers of dictation
recorders know how valuable these features are, to easily correct
mistakes on the fly etc. As do the makers of professional music recorders
for computers, since Sonar, ProTools and every other one of them right
down to simple ones like Total Recorder have these features. To take a
bunch of separate files and edit them all together on a PC afterwords
would be unacceptable both in a dictation or a professional audio
situation. That's why these functions exist. In fact, Olympus considers
these capabilities essential on a dictation recorder. So I asked why they
weren't available on any of their high-quality audio models. And they
just said: we don't think you need them there. Again, the question was:
do you know of any digital recorders with insert, append, and overwrite
functions that are not using the highly compressed dictation formats? If
you do, please respond, even if you think these functions are useless. If
you don't, there's no need to give an opinion on whether or not you think
one needs these features. It's like someone asking you if you know of a
good Italian restaurant, and you answer with, I think you should eat
Chinese.
- Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan"
To: "PC Audio Discussion Li
