From: David W. Tamkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> DoctorWu51 asked,
> | Do I need a second deck, or are there portables that have an RCA-type "line
> | out" jack suitable for recording purposes?
>
> There are portables with 3.5mm stereo line-out jacks, usually the Sony
> recorders. Portable players and other brands of portable recorders will
> usually have a headphone out and that's it.
>
> If you have a deck, you could make your analog recording from the deck to a
> portable recorder. However, maybe you meant that you're considering buying
> a playback-only portable.
>
> | I'm assuming that copying through a headphone jack would produce poor
> | quality sound.
>
> Not that I can tell. To my ears, a headphone output turned to maximum volume
> is indistinguishable from a line-out. I've compared the line-out and head-
> phone jacks of my Sony MZ-R3, and I've compared identical [except for fram-
> ing, cough cough] recordings made digitally from the same CD track to two
> different MDs [cough cough] playing in my Aiwa AM-F70, listening through its
> headphone jack, and in my R3, listening through its line-out. I couldn't
> tell a difference.
I hope your throat condition improves soon David. I would say that all other
things being equal (which they might not be, but anyway) the Sony LineOut
minijack which skips at least the digital level chip (volume), bass boost circuits
or at least the switch when boost is off, and a further low impedance output
stage must be better than the Sharp, Aiwa or whatever porties where your
"LineOut / Headphone" goes through all the unnecessary extra circuitry.
Every transistor adds a little distortion.
Sony aren't stupid-- the LineOut socket is there for optimum quality, admittedly
the headphone socket sounds good to me too but logic dictates the seperate
LineOut *must* be better unless badly designed. One other Sony advantage
I'll come back to later, also...
> But I'm not Colin's chiropteran cousin.
Nor am I, and as I didn't eat a dictionary for dinner tonight am not certain wot
a chiropteran creature is. My CD-RW is temporarily out of action too so I
can't even check on that. Wouldn't it be great if there were a non-electronic
media to store information, that preferably had some sort of index to locate
the required entry. Ideally portable, and shock-resistant too. Something that
could be just picked up and accessed.
I assume this is the guy who can detect differences in sound which even the
highest quality measurement instruments cannot-- and hear nuances in the
playback of 40Khz tones and defects in 16, 20 and even 24bit ADC storage.
I mightn't bother sending this as he can probably tell the difference in sound
each key on my keyboard makes and knows what I've typed already. Okay--
I'm being forceitious but I'm allowed to occasionally, yeah?
> | Do you have any suggestions about how to go about making MD to MD analog
> | copies to get the best results in terms of sound quality?
>
> Set the levels yourself so that they just miss clipping; don't rely on
> automatic gain control.
Cheers,
PrinceGaz -- "as well as giving us the advantage of a dedicated LineOut socket,
never forget Sony also included an additional disc position switch on their porties
which others left out."
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