A couple of updates, this time. First, because my commute is only about 35-40 minutes long I have been normally only burning Audio CDs (to the Ultra Speed CD-RWs, so it's a fast burn). This means I can burn directly from iTunes and the unit can read the disks fine.

But wait, you ask, why don't you burn an MP3 CD from iTunes? Wouldn't that be even faster? Well, yes, for the burn part it would be faster. And I did try that -- a couple of times. Unfortunately, the VRCD300-USB doesn't seem to want to read MP3 disks burned by iTunes 5.0. I don't know what it could be doing wrong. The unit reads the same content fine when it's burned with other software.

On another update, I want to take back some of what I said about the radio reception until the solar flare issues completely go away. This article at Discovery Channel explains that the last week has had one of the worst solar flare events in a couple of decades.

A rowdy sunspot cluster hurled a record-breaking flare into space on Wednesday, blacking out all high- and low-frequency radio communications on both American continents, causing power surges, blinding satellites and lighting up aurorae, and more trouble is likely on the way, say experts.

Given my tests were during this period, I don't want to knock the radio for the wrong reasons. I'll pick this up again in a couple of weeks. This is one of those things I would know if I kept on my amateur radio news. *sigh*

Shane Conder's Whateveritis of Nothing: More Info on the MegaSound VRCD300-USB

Posted by Shane on September 14, 2005 9:30 AM | Permalink