SwingDJs

The wall sockets may be 3 prong but not all the power bricks are 3 prong. Here is the power supply used for several Dell models in Canada and the U.S.: Dell 90 Watt 2 Prong AC Adapter

I believe that is correct, Mac's have a 2 prong (NEMA 1-15) plug on their brick. My Dell is 2 prong and I haven't experienced a ground loop. There are other sources of noise or interference. If you have a choice to use balanced or at least shielded cables, you should. There doesn't have to be a phys...

Thank-you for the clarification. I think it's helpful for us to understand the foundation of your statement that an iPod is better than a laptop came from. I guess you are talking about two different observations: 1) A quiescent noise or hum comparison of various laptops and your laptop was the wors...

And for reference sake, I've compared the sound from my laptop's onboard chip, a turtle beach micro, echo indigo dj, and m-audio firewire solo. To pick on your logic, how can you conclude from that testing that an iPod sounds better than your laptop? To put it in math terms, your're missing a step ...

I keep hoping somebody will design an mp3 player that can act as an external sound card. This may be possible with an iPod running iPodLinux if someone were to write the software to do it. Basically software to run on the PC to control the iPod. What would the use case be? Basically what would the ...

A toy, that's about it. They talk about it being for audiophiles and then their point of reference is an iPod as an audio source. It's likely not much better than a host of parity products in the iPod accessories market. $200 would buy an nice set of headphones with $100 or more left over to spend o...

I don't buy the piracy angle, it may have been an issue but I don't think it was very big. I see two major problems with Classics. First, the losing the distribution channel was a major blow. Second and more significantly, the label had a poor business model. Small runs of many CDs means really high...

The Vestax unit looks neat, it looks like the sound hardware plus hardware interface together. The Numark unit seems a little over priced for what it does, basically a bunch of knobs, sliders and switches to operate things in the GUI of the DJ software. You could probably make a home brew version fo...

Platypus wrote:With a growing blues dancing scene in Texas and some people moving here from other states, there was growing interest for something different.

Quick tangential question, does the blues dancing scene dance to Blues music or simply slow music?

I like the portability because I can fly somewhere with all my music in a compact package. No more heavy flight case and limited music. The search is great because it provides everything a cross reference does (search by artist, album, track title, etc) in one step. Also, the way the track details a...

Public embarrassment followed by a swift kick in the ass off the stage. Hopefully the stage is high enough off the ground the landing will hurt.

That or a big stick.

Back on the original topic, I think Saskatoon, Edmonton and Calgary scenes are similar to SF, about 80%+ recorded music. Here, we tend to leech off of other live music opportunities that aren't specifically swing dances, if you accumulate all those, it might be somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 live dep...

Surreal wrote:Hmm, here's another interesting looking/sounding toy I've come across:
http://www.headphone.com/products/headp ... ithead.php
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Any thoughts on usefulness for a laptop dj?

About as useful as a cruise missile is for hunting gophers.

To summarize what came up in the laptop thread, there are two options: 1) Buy (or fabricate) a ground loop isolator to go between your audio output and the mixer board. 2) Be cheap and get a 3-prong (NEMA 5-15) to 2-prong (NEMA 1-15) power adapter to go between your laptop power supply and wall powe...

I have that info on that recording of Tuxedo Junction in the liner notes of the CD titled "Black British Swing" which coincidentally just arrived in the mail from the UK yesterday.