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Re: I tried and....

Posted by JimF on October 21, 2005 at 07:30:17

In Reply to: I tried and.... posted by krzys on October 21, 2005 at 06:41:21:

> BTW Jim F what was your DVD player?

I started out using a Pioneer DV-414 from circa
'98 or '99 (back when I was buying 24/96 DADs from
Classic and Chesky).

That worked fine with the Memorex 4x DVD+Rs I
bought a spindle of from CompUSA last year.
But when I ran out of those (I've transferred
about 150 CDs already) and went to get a new
one, it was a spindle of 16x Memorex DVD+Rs
(I bought a Sony DRU-720A dual-layer DVD burner
last summer, so I was able to take advantage
of the increased burn speed).

The Pioneer DV-414, which played the 4x DVD+Rs
more-or-less OK (with occasional glitches),
could not handle the 16x DVD+Rs.

So I went out and got a Pioneer DV-563A universal
(CD, SACD, DVD-A, DVD-V) DVD-RW compatible
player (a recently discontinued model) from a local
Sixth Ave. Electronics for about $70. That
handles the 16x DVD+Rs fine (again, with occasional
dropouts, usually non-reproducible).

I've been getting the sonic results I've heard
from the Bel Canto DAC-2 and CAL Alpha 24/96
(both these DACs have a touch of magic about
them, just on their own) with cheap, giveaway
Toslink from the Pioneer.

> [T]e interface is awful, cumbersome, far far
> behind of the others audio PC programs. . .

Oh, yeah! You know the worst? I doesn't support
copy-and-paste from the Windows clipboard! You
have to re-type title and artist information even
when it's sitting there in another window!

> Above that all the CD collection has to be
> transferred to DVD, extenuating work. . .

Yes, I gather that some of the early enthusasts from
last year, over at Meridian Unplugged, have gotten
tired of the work, and gone back to straight
CDs. ;-> Maybe I will too, eventually, who knows?
But I'm having fun at the moment. It helps that I
had **already** been ripping a lot of my CDs to
hard disk already, for use with a cd3o wireless
network player (which supports WAV files tagged
with MusicMatch ID tags).

The stack of 150 DVDs I've already burned is **unlabelled**!
:-0 :-0. So I have to look into Avery label templates
for Microsoft Word. That's another aspect of the work
involved.

Anyway, I'm glad you actually tried it out, and liked
the result. Thanks for sharing that!

Jim F.

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