Just wondering if this is a good receiver or not. I'm not an audiophile so I'm really only looking for something affordable that sounds great. I listened to it over at Circuit City and I was really impressed. I like the fact that it's slim and has three optical in's. This is a full digital...

Well, after 18 months unemployed, I finally got a job and a decent job too! I'm starting Wednesday at Sitel for their General Motors division doing customer service. I don't care for customer service too much, but a job's a job and I don't have a degree. I am a car nut (unfortunately my bias...

I thought it would be fun last night to go ride my bicycle down at the waterfront in Portland and NE Portland. I figured I'd take the last lightrail train back to Beaverton (west side) at 1:11AM. The first thing that happened was this barefoot group of older teens dressed as pirates. They...

for the 16th annual waterfront blues festival here in portland. He was amazing (except for his "go the distance" song)! He claims that the "Go the Distance" song is the number one played song on Air Force One. It was a real treat to see Trout, I have never heard of him until now. I performed a...

Please PM me if you're a Randstad employee or know of anyone working through them. I want to know if they are a good company to work for. I have an appt. with them on Wednesday for a customer service position. TIA

I'm going to be getting Yanni Live at the Acropolis on a 24 bit mastered CD. My equipment, both portable and home is rather mediocre (see profile). Am I going to notice much of a difference in sound quality with this 24 bit CD? TIA

Just wondering if there's any attractions I shouldn't miss. I was there a few years ago. Here's what I've been to and seen, but some things I'll do again since I'll be with someone that hasn't seen this stuff: Coke World M&M World Bellagio's Water show The Pirates show at Treasure...

I don't know who it was by or what the title was. All I remember is the some of the lyrics: "Ain't nobody going to take my pride, ain't nobody going to slow me down, oh no, I got to keep on moving" It's a very self empowering song and I'd really like to listen to it. Anyone know which...

I know we usually don't post movie threads here, but I thought I'd share this with you all since I'm in Portland. As you'll soon see, I'm going to be very nitpicky with this movie since they are showing my town and that's the only way I know how to view it I found it kind of strange in...

I'll start. I was walking in a supermarket parking lot, these two guys drive up to me in a van and ask me if I'd be interested in their speakers, they say that they went to drop these off at the customer's house, but the customer said he changed his mind. So they said they'll get in trouble...

http://www.whitetrash.nl/pmf/ Ah, the internet, gotta love all the useful sites out there

I just found out that this song has a Beethoven sample (the piano). I think it's pretty cool he was able to pull that off. http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/...sp?aid=2045607

Out of three blue units I've had checked, they all had ROM version 1.0 or 1.2. This means you can turn off SCMS: http://www.sketchy.net/md/r50scms.html So if anyone is looking for a quality portable recorder that can disable SCMS, look for the blue one (but always ask the seller to check...

Is it true that you can't plug a set of headphones into the MZ-R50's remote? Every picture I've seen makes it look like you can't do this. I know there's a standard jack on the unit, but it would be nice to be able to use the remote too. Pretty crappy that Sony makes you use their inferior...

I'm talking about the whole board, not just this Members' Lounge. I'm on another board that uses the UBB format like this one, but it gets TONS more traffic, the monthly bandwidth is at least 30GB (somewhere in there). To speed things up a little, the search function is often disabled...

I'm in the market for an earlier MZ-R50 that allows SCMS to be turned off. In so doing, it sets the copy bit to 10 instead of 11 like it normally would. What exactly does this mean? What can you do and what can't you do with copy bit 10 recorded? I've heard copy bit 01 allows unlimited copies...

I think I blew my headphones. I should have known better than to listen to bass CDs with them (from my receiver). Now, even with my 5mW PCDP, if the bass gets over a certain frequency, there's distortion. Oh well, at least these are inexpensive headphones.

Does anyone know how to check the manufacture date of an MZ-R50 without the original box or documentation? On the MZ-R30, they put the date on the bottom, but apparently they don't on the 50. It needs to be before a certain month so it has the ability to dodge SCMS. I've been having a hell of...

I did a search and the only time Portland came up was something like a year ago and it was just this guy wondering where he should fly to for a meet. It would be real nice to get something going in the Portland area. There's 5000 members on this board so there must be some other Portlandians...