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20 May 2017
Inexpensive gig bag
1 of 1 found this helpful Well, it's no Wolfpak, but for the money, it's a mostly worthwhile gig bag.
It has no padding to speak of, so there is very little protection from bumps, so I don't recommend it for expensive horns, for carrying around to rehearsals and gigs.
That said, I purchased several of them mostly to store horns in. I have more horns than usable cases, so for storing the horns that I'm not currently using, these bags are pretty good! Larger horns might have some space issues, but I did fit a Schilke E3L-4 in one of them when I needed the case it and its D bell were occupying.
For this price, I could put each of my horns in one of these bags, and tag it so I know where a particular horn is on the shelf without having to open each one!
Wrapping a horn in a towel before placing it in the bag might improve the safety for actually carrying it around.
Despite this somewhat luke-warm review, I may purchase a few more in the future.
03 March 2018
Really excellent Satellite Receiver
I purchased my first Vu+ Solo 4K receiver in January of 2016, and it's been my main receiver almost from the beginning. Prior to getting the Vu+, I'd been using a GeoSatPro microHD receiver which also works great. The GeoSatPro is very easy to use like most ALI based receivers, but has a few minor issues, not the least of which is its inablilty to handle UHD signals. The Vu+ on the other hand is a Linux based receiver, and like all other Linux boxes I've played with, is relatively difficult to set up and use, partly due to the many features offered. The ALI boxes are simpler, but less versatile.
Another issue with Linux receivers is that I've never found a truly comprehensive manual for operating them. Fortunately, there are many users groups online that provide answers and assistance for newbies, such as I was at the time. These boxes are aimed primarily at the European and Asian markets and thus are used more like a Dish Network system, fixed on one satellite. Here in North America, many if not most of us use motorized dishes, many being C band and Ku band capable, and so use different LNBFs than are expected by the designers of the boxes. Suffice to say, it took me many weeks to get things working more or less they way I wanted. It took me several weeks to ask how to do something simple like delete a recorded program that I'd already watched. Again, the users groups came to the rescue.
Anyway, this box produces great looking pictures, and properly handles UHD (4K) programming. Since I'd bought an early Sony UHD TV, I appear to be unable to watch the 4K programming in 4K, but the image quality of the 4K (like NASA UHD) is noticeably better down rezzed to 1080p, probably due to greater care in the programming production.
Many people replace the software on these Linux boxes with third-party software like Black Hole, which offers features not available from the stock software (and I'm not talking about pirate tools) thru extra applications. That said, for the most part having recently compared my Black Hole equipped box with my stock box, most of the features are the same, but may be accessed through different paths through the menus.
One cool feature that this box has is the front panel color monitor. This can be used to keep an eye on a program without having the TV turned on, or connected to the Vu+ box. (My wife may want to watch something on cable, but I want to be able to record something but I don't know when it'll be on. I can see on the little monitor and start the recording without interrupting her program.
All in all, it's a great little box. It runs cooler than the GeoSatPro box, so I don't have to keep a fan running on it in the summer. Being Linux, and connected to my home network, I can copy recordings from the 5Tb external USB hard drive I'm using with it (the GeoSatPro maxes out at 2Tb, I recall) to my computer for editing and storage. I can also upload video FROM my computer to the hard drive and watch it via the Vu+. I liked it enough to buy a second box recently to use with another of my C/Ku dishes for watching in another room.
11 December 2007
iRiver iHP-120 MP3 player/recorder -- Good Stuff!!
2 of 2 found this helpful The iRiver iHP-120 is a good player as well as a recorder. I purchased mine a year or so after getting an Apple iPod 80GB player with a Belkin audio input adapter. I was disappointed with the sound quality from the Belkin, mainly due to the AGC (automatic gain control) that tries to make all sounds the same volume in the recording. Not a good thing to do to classical music!
The iRiver, however, has no undetectable AGC (in fact, I'm not sure it has AGC, but I certainly don't use it!) and with an external microphone, is capable of making surprisingly good recordings. I use it mainly for casual recordings of my own performances, with bands, orchestras, and brass ensembles. When making serious recordings, I put up mics on stands and use a 24bit 96Khz sampling rate A to D converter and record on my laptop. However, there are times when I just don't have the time, energy, or sometimes permission to put up stands, and set everything up. This is when the iRiver really shines.
I've upgraded the firmware with Rockbox, and have it set up to default to the recording screen. I like the new firmware's ability to allow me to set levels on the fly, and split recordings into multiple files of arbitrary length. The battery life of mine is excellent. I was able to record two of my performances which lasted almost three hours each from the time I turned on the recorder to the time I turned it off, and still had at least 75% battery life left.
The iRiver also supports multiple compression methods for playback (I use un-compressed WAV file format for recording). I'm able to rip CDs to MP3, to MP4 (iPod) and WMA and successfully listen to any of them. There are other formats that I haven't played with as well.
The worst thing I can say about it is that it's clunky in size compared with the iPod. The other thing is that after having an 80Gb iPod, I feel somewhat constrained by the 120's 20 Gb hard drive. The drives are user replaceable, as I understand it, with at least a 30Gb drive that will fit this unit. Another option would be to get the iHP-140 for it's 40GB drive. In reality, since I also have the iPod, I'll probably never run into the 20GB limit, so it's probably not a real issue. That's it!
Don't forget to upgrade your firmware with Rockbox to get the most out of the iRiver!
Hope this helps somebody!
Guy Clark