Re: B speakers arrived finally

[Dane Trethowan]

I still remember the blazing sound of the B A5 and I often kick myself 
for selling that unit as soon as I did given it took me a little longer 
than I anticipated to save for the A7 but that can't be helped and - 
given the sound of the A5 - I just can't wait to have the A7 in my den.


I know the chap who bought my A5 and he wouldn't be rid of it even if 
you paid him, actually he asked me if the place I bought my A7 from had 
any more left so that's how impressed he is with the B sound.


Regarding the P7 cans? Well I wouldn't go so far as to say that those 
cans are the best you can buy but for the money they certainly punch 
above their weight, hard to believe I've had my pair for nearly 9 months 
now.


My only slight complaint about the P7 is its weight, it does get a 
little heavy around the ears but the ears don't get sore.



On 26/05/2016 2:39 PM, Mary Otten wrote:

I know what you mean about the take over. If the company that took them
over is smart, they'll let them alone to do what they do best. Still,
glad I got the m1 and the p7.

Mary




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Re: B speakers arrived finally

[Mary Otten]

I know what you mean about the take over. If the company that took them
over is smart, they'll let them alone to do what they do best. Still,
glad I got the m1 and the p7. 

Mary

Re: B speakers arrived finally

[Dane Trethowan]

I moved to get the B A7 system as quickly as I could given that B 
were recently taken over so Goodness Only knows what changes the new 
crowd are thinking of making given they're in the home automation 
business and not in the business of making products that sound good.



The B sound is lengendery if I dare say so myself.




On 25/05/2016 4:57 AM, André van Deventer wrote:

Got the rest of the tab out!  Very simple actually you simply have to open the 
battery compartment!

Very handy little control indeed.  All the functions work with fobar 2000 which 
is what I am primarily use.

Still can't get over the sound of these little speakers!



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From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mary Otten
Sent: 24 May 2016 06:01 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: B speakers arrived finally

I hope you can manage to get your remote control working. I prefer it immensely 
to the controls on the speaker, because they have no tactile indication, and 
because you have to reach for the speaker in order to use those controls. Plus, 
with the remote you can move among tracks and stop playback. It's a very handy 
little unit.
Mary


Sent from my iPhone


On May 24, 2016, at 8:40 AM, André van Deventer  
wrote:

Hi all



For those of you who might still remember – my pair of B mm1
speakers finally arrived today.



Getting started was rather straight forward.   I simply connected up the two
speakers, connected it up to the power supply and plugged in the USB port.
Was a bit of a problem finding the power button on the side of the
active speaker but when I finally found it by accident, the computer
recognised it immediately and installed the windows drivers.  It now
shows up in my audio devices as mm1.



The two rather small speakers are surprisingly heavy for their size and
extremely solidly constructed.   There are two buttons on the left side of
the speaker for volume control and one on the right side of the
speaker which is the power on button.  All of these buttons must be physically 
press
so they give tactile feedback.   But there is now physicale indication where
they are located.



There is a basic little remote control that comes with the unit which
I have not yet used.  You have to pul out f small tab that keeps the
battery door from closing.  I messed up things a bit so the greatest
part of the tab broke off!  Still have to get the rest out.



The sound that comes out of these little speakers is quite astonishing.
However, if you are looking for booming bass and screeching highs as
seem to be the case with much of the modern equipment, you are going
to be very disappointed.  The sound of the B is subtle  that is the
only way I can describe it.  All the frequencies are there that you
would need.  And the sound is wonderfully clear.



Am still running some tests so will get back later if anyone is interested.



Regards



Andre







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Re: B speakers arrived finally

[Dane Trethowan]

Yep indeed, they're desktop units but I still think - even given their 
price - they're amazing.



As you've stated the tops and bottoms of those speakers aren't 
emphasised in any way, its a nice honest and flat sound and that's great 
for music.



50HZ is about right, I think the specs quote 46HZ or something similar 
and that's pretty good for computer speakers without a sub-woofer, a lot 
of the speakers around now - even with a sub-woofer - only go down to 
100HZ and I've seen some that only boast 150HZ which isn't good at all.





On 25/05/2016 5:07 AM, André van Deventer wrote:

Dane

Got it sorted thanx!

Pricy but the most amazing set of speakers I have ever owned.

Just keep in mind they're desktop speakers.  They're not made to fill a whole 
room.  I've heard criticism about that.  My feeling is though that you buy a 
set of speakers for the purpose you want to use them.  I tested them with a 
sweep generator program and they go down to about 50 Hz when they start to fall 
off.  Amazing for such small units!



-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane 
Trethowan
Sent: 24 May 2016 06:38 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: B speakers arrived finally

Okay to the problem of the broken tab on your remote.

The bottom of the remote comes off in the same way that the bottom might come 
off an older type of mouse when changing the ball, turn the cover anti 
clockwise and you’ll feel it come off and the tab will drop out.

The remote control - if its the same one as comes with all other B Powered 
Speakers - should be easy enough to get around, 5 buttons in the shape of a cross, 
2 buttons either side control track back and forward, middle button is your pause 
button, up and down control volume, the slightly indented bottom button is your 
source - toggles between USB and Aux-In mode - and very top button is for power.

I’m not surprised to hear your summary of the B Audio as being subtle but 
very desirably so in my opinion.

I had been wondering how you’d been going with this set of speakers and I hadn’t 
forgotten, actually I was forcibly reminded of your speaker set yesterday, I’ve 
finally managed to save enough money to get the B A7 speaker system so 
started doing research to find a good price which paid off immediately, I was able 
to find a place that had one model left on the floor for sale at 2 thirds of the 
original price so that’s been reserved until I can arrange to go and pick it up and 
I don’t mind telling you all that the pickup day can’t come quickly enough.



On 25 May 2016, at 1:40 AM, André van Deventer  
wrote:

Hi all



For those of you who might still remember – my pair of B mm1
speakers finally arrived today.



Getting started was rather straight forward.   I simply connected up the two
speakers, connected it up to the power supply and plugged in the USB port.
Was a bit of a problem finding the power button on the side of the
active speaker but when I finally found it by accident, the computer
recognised it immediately and installed the windows drivers.  It now
shows up in my audio devices as mm1.



The two rather small speakers are surprisingly heavy for their size and
extremely solidly constructed.   There are two buttons on the left side of
the speaker for volume control and one on the right side of the
speaker which is the power on button.  All of these buttons must be physically 
press
so they give tactile feedback.   But there is now physicale indication where
they are located.



There is a basic little remote control that comes with the unit which
I have not yet used.  You have to pul out f small tab that keeps the
battery door from closing.  I messed up things a bit so the greatest
part of the tab broke off!  Still have to get the rest out.



The sound that comes out of these little speakers is quite astonishing.
However, if you are looking for booming bass and screeching highs as
seem to be the case with much of the modern equipment, you are going
to be very disappointed.  The sound of the B is subtle  that is the
only way I can describe it.  All the frequencies are there that you
would need.  And the sound is wonderfully clear.



Am still running some tests so will get back later if anyone is interested.



Regards



Andre







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Fwd: Apple reportedly working on a rival to Amazon's Echo

[Dane Trethowan]

I’m not at all surprised to hear that Apple may be working on a similar device 
to the Amazon Echo or Google Home given that they’ve been rolling out SIRI on 
devices for several years now.


http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/24/apple-reportedly-working-on-a-rival-to-amazons-echo/
 

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Re: Total recorder driver clarefication needed

[Aidan]

Hi, the best thing to do is to instal it with defaults set. If you
choose one of the older drivers wich allow for choosing the
application to be captured, then you stil could have system problems.
Those are mostly for xp and although it could be used, it might not be
reliable in all cases. Therefore, use the defaults in the instal and
it will put the latest good stable driver on your system. Then to
silence jaws dearing recording you should not do things on the
computer or rood it to another soundcard or headset. Or press insert
plus space and then the letter s to mute until recording is done and
turn on again the same way.

On 23/05/2016, Dane Trethowan  wrote:
> Perhaps you could tell us what you're wanting to do with Total Recorder.
>
>
> When you talk about silencing Eloquence do you mean when Total Recorder
> is recording and if so what exactly are you trying to record?
>
>
>
>
> On 23/05/2016 9:01 AM, Donald L. Roberts wrote:
>> I am hoping that some kind list member will suggest the appropriate
>> configuration for Total Recorder drivers on a Windows 10 desktop.  I
>> read the help topic and find that I am confused.  Ideally, I would
>> love the configuration which would silence Eloquence but don't quite
>> know how to accomplish this.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for assistance.
>>
>>
>> Don Roberts
>>
>>
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SV: what's a good program for playing dvd's?

[Brian Olesen]

Hi,
The latest works beautifully.
I use the 64 bit version.
In their history they actually talks about accessibility enhancements, so
they're definitely aware of us.

Brian
Brian

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Emne: Re: what's a good program for playing dvd's?

is there a certain version of vlc player thats accessible? and what version
of we. would it work best with?
thanks les

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Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 7:17 AM
Subject: RE: what's a good program for playing dvd's?


Also with Any DVD HD working in the background unlocking them, VLC is an
awesome super accessible Blu-Ray disk player. Cause Power DVD isn't much
accessible at all.

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Olesen
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 5:27 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' 
Subject: SV: what's a good program for playing dvd's?

Hi,
The best one in my opinion is VLC.
Do a google for VLC and find the right version on theirsight.

Brian

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Emne: what's a good program for playing dvd's?

Hi folks...Randy here..what's a good programme for playing dvd's?

Re: what's a good program for playing dvd's?

[Les Gordon]

is there a certain version of vlc player thats accessible? and what version 
of we. would it work best with?

thanks les

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From: "Hamit Campos" 

To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" 
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 7:17 AM
Subject: RE: what's a good program for playing dvd's?


Also with Any DVD HD working in the background unlocking them, VLC is an
awesome super accessible Blu-Ray disk player. Cause Power DVD isn't much
accessible at all.

-Original Message-
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Olesen
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 5:27 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' 
Subject: SV: what's a good program for playing dvd's?

Hi,
The best one in my opinion is VLC.
Do a google for VLC and find the right version on theirsight.

Brian

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Emne: what's a good program for playing dvd's?

Hi folks...Randy here..what's a good programme for playing dvd's?

RE: what's a good program for playing dvd's?

[Hamit Campos]

Also with Any DVD HD working in the background unlocking them, VLC is an
awesome super accessible Blu-Ray disk player. Cause Power DVD isn't much
accessible at all.

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Brian
Olesen
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 5:27 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' 
Subject: SV: what's a good program for playing dvd's?

Hi,
The best one in my opinion is VLC.
Do a google for VLC and find the right version on theirsight.

Brian 

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Re: Portable Am/Fm shortwave weather radio recomandations.

[Dane Trethowan]

Hi Again!


Sorry, there was one thing I didn't pickup in the subject line of your 
email, you're after a Weather radio too? That is a radio which is able 
to receive the U.S. weather bands? To my knowledge there is only one 
radio out there which has the weather bands as part of it and is able to 
receive all the other bands you've mentioned and that's the CCrane 
Skywave radio however performance on the Shortwave bands I'm lead to 
believe isn't all that good and its not the best performing AM radio 
either so if that matters then you may be a little disappointed.





On 25/05/2016 4:24 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Sorry I got the model number of the Degen wrong, it is in fact an 1103 
but put a DE in front of the 1103 so the model number should read 
DE-1103.





On 25/05/2016 4:18 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
To put things into perspective, the little Degen radios are 
incredibly powerful - wasn't long ago that such power would have to 
come from a tabletop - and we're talking small portable here.



They're not on the same scale as your Sangean ATS909X or the Eton 
Satellit but at a quarter of the price of those two radios? Well 
they're damn good value for money.



The AM of the 1103 has some slight image rejection issues but again, 
we're talking about a radio under $100 which is hotter than a fire 
cracker.



The audio isn't first class through the internal speaker but 
certainly not the worst and there's plenty of good audio to be heard 
through the headphones socket or the line-out jack.



The 1103 can even be connected to an external antenna through the 
jack provided if you feel that way inclined.





On 25/05/2016 3:56 AM, Evan Reese wrote:
I found several Dejen radios on Amazon for well under $100, but not 
the D-1103. Nothing for Kido 1103.
It's pretty amazing what you can get for less than $100 these days, 
especially when I consider that I grew up with short wave in the 
1970s. Things have come a long way since then..

Evan

-Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 12:26 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Portable Am/Fm shortwave weather radio recomandations.

There are a lot of Shortwave radio sets out there which are blind 
friendly but the trick to getting a blind friendly shortwave set is 
to be prepared to learn how to use it.


The cheapest around which is an all-round good performer would be 
the Degen D-1103 sometimes known as the Kido - hope I got the 
spelling right - 1103, the set has been around a good while and as 
far as I know is still available for well under $100.


The radio covers all the Shortwave bands along with Medium-wave and 
Long-wave bands, has SSB tuning should you want it and performs well.


There are a few tricks to this radio but overall the interface is 
extremely well laid out.


One of the things I like about the radio is the analogue feel to the 
tuning, yes it has a knob for tuning the radio with the added tester 
year feel of each band wrapping around.


For example you select a band and start tuning using the dial, when 
you come to the upper or lower end of the band - depending on your 
thing direction - the radio doesn’t just go to the next band rather 
it wraps around to the end and continues tuning.


The 1103 has a numeric keypad though its a little strange to get 
used to at first as all the numbers are from left to right.


Buttons are easily identifiable, keypad buttons are small round 
buttons whilst function buttons are rectangle in shape.


These radios were being sold by the giant discount Aldi Supermarket 
chain in Australia up until recently.


I have a document which describes how to use the radio and its many 
functions which I was involved in compiling if anyone would be 
interested, email me and I’ll send along a copy or - if demand is 
great enough - I’ll put up a Dropbox link.



On 25 May 2016, at 12:24 AM, Singing Sparrow 
 wrote:


Does anyone have any good recomandations for a radio in the subject 
line? that is blind friendly? if so what is the brand, model, and 
price and where can a person buy it?






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SV: what's a good program for playing dvd's?

[Brian Olesen]

Hi,
The best one in my opinion is VLC.
Do a google for VLC and find the right version on theirsight.

Brian 

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Hi folks...Randy here..what's a good programme for playing dvd's?