Flash Remote

• It's a remote.
  
• It's heavy.
  
• I suppose that it looks good.
  
• It controls Naim's gear.
  
• It doesn't seem to be programmable (or I just haven't figured out how).
  
• It "wakes up" when it senses motion. (Its sensitivity seems to auto-adjust, which is handy if you live near a railyard. )
  

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

It's always a nice day for it, have a good one
Steve

I suppose they would make good paperweights.

Arthur Bye

Have you ever considered selling them?

Regards
Laxton

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you can see instantly where you are what you want to do

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I actually find the button organization a little confusing.

• The volume is controlled by big buttons on the left and right. I generally prefer volume control buttons to be oriented vertically.
  
• Above that track selection is controlled by big buttons on the left and right. I often confuse these with the volume buttons.
  
• Near the track selection, the time position is controlled by little buttons on the left and right (which are paired by two unrelated buttons that look just the same). I usually have to go hunting for these, as it's not inately obvious which of the two pairs of small buttons to use. Also, if you're on the wrong "Page", then you have find and press that one first, before you can do the time positioning.
  

• Determine which Page is active on the remote.
  
• Find and press the Page button, if necessary, to access the Display button.
  
• Find and press the Display button until the time position is displayed on the player.
  
• Press the Page button again to get to the access the time positioning buttons.
  
• Find the time positioning buttons, and use them to get to the desired position in the track.
  
• Press the Page button to get back to the Display button.
  
• Press the Display button the required number of times to get the display back to Track mode.
  
• Press the Page button again, so get back to the time positioning buttons, where I try to keep the remote most of the time.
  

Fortunately, my chair is about 18" from the CDS2, I don't generally need to use the remote.

BTW Vuk, I prefer the Marantz over the Flash. I also prefer the Marantz over the remote that came with my Sony A/V Receiver, which is why I'm using with the home theatre system.

I can't quite rememember the way your favorite remote looked, although I recall that it had a whole bunch of rather non-descript buttons (which is a real problem with Linn's remotes, btw). Are the key buttons highlighted to some extent (either a different size, or set aside)?

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

Ciao!

Willem

[This message was edited by Willem van Gemert on WEDNESDAY 08 August 2001 at 12:38.]

David

-- The paging system is stupid given that with something that size you could easily accomodate enough buttons to do everything needed without faffing around with pages at all.

-- The smaller buttons (especially the little round ones) are fiddly and have poor tactile qualities that make them difficult to press and they offer poor feedback.

-- Unlabelled buttons and a screen is clearly a stupid idea unless its a learning remote. One has to look at the screen and press the appropriate button instead of just pressing the button. Every other (non-learning) remote I have I can in time use without looking at but Flash is designed so that this is almost impossible for all but the major functions.

It appears to me to have been designed primarily to accomodate its reprogrammable feature (presumably where the name comes from) which is a fine idea but by definition is unlikely to be an issue for many users and certainly not that often. Hence we are left with a remote primarily designed for something it rarely has to do and very obviously badly designed for its primary function.

And I've yet to meet a person who has not seriously resented being forced to pay for one when buying a CDS2.

I also think its hideously ugly with a sort "look at the quality craftmanship and materials" fussy design one associates with products designed to appeal to the peculiar Japanese sense of English quality (you know like walnut dash inlays on modern cars). Despite its modern pretentions I think it looks very old fashioned.

However, its shape and general heft jave led t the invention of FlashBall (a sort of indoor tennis) and I understand that its proving very popular with the S&M crowd and certain South American police states.

Matthew

David, I will look into the software default and
get back to you.

Willem, talk with the chap you purchased it from must have incurred some damage.

The only feature I lack is the "mono" switch, which is rarely used anyhow.

Arthur Bye

The best remote in my view were the originals CDS/52 remotes that came with the original design. Fantastically light, aesthetically please and a delight to use.

Dev

the source+/- buttons on mine do not work at all on my dealer's 52 that i have on loan -- but this is not my 52. on mine, these buttons sort of worked, if somewhat erratically, but i had bigger problems to worry about at the time.

i may be in a position to share some more thoughts after programming it when my own 52 is back.

enjoy

ken

That's interesting. It sounds like the Flash can be configured to work with a Linn tuner and perhaps other brand equipment. Is this correct. How soon do you expect to implent this upgrade?

Arthur Bye

I think during October. THe remote will work all
rc5 coded items.

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the source+/- buttons on mine do not work at all on my dealer's 52

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It doesn't work for mine either. Fortunately, I'm usually close enough to change the input manually. If I'm changing sources, then there's a good chance that I'm standing near the system changing media, unless I'm switching to the tuner from something else.

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

oh, perhaps this is a general fault? i 'll worry about this when my 52 comes back.

enjoy

ken

- In the CD menu, please put the player's display on-off function on the main page...minor, but important. For many, the program button is a minor facility (I'd prefer random track selection in the players, myself).

- The page select button within the menus is a waste of available interface buttons--perhaps clicking the CD menu twice might then take you into the second set of commands. (One could also add the external RC-5 / local IR remote control function here for the newer players, too...)

Perhaps a shorter display timeout, as well, as one can hear the display backlight in very quiet rooms.

Dave Dever, NANA
(back from vacation)

[This message was edited by David Dever, NANA on WEDNESDAY 08 August 2001 at 18:32.]

No. Was he bludgeoned to death with his own Flash?

Although I'm not sure if it would be obvious as a highly trained Flash wielder can beat the victim senseless without leaving the sort of tell-tale bruising that gets Ammnesty in all of fluster. FlashBall does of course develop just the sort of subtle wrist action required for such a discrete operation.

I have it on good authority that the Italian police were very happy with Flash's performance at the recent G8 summit where its hippie whacking ergonmics were highly praised. Sadly one local resident, Michele Hansoni, was not so happy and was heard cursing loudly as his attempt to play the middle eight from Cher's "I Beleive" was undone by some stray RC5 codes.

Matthew

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The best remote in my view were the originals CDS/52 remotes that came with the original design. Fantastically light, aesthetically please and a delight to use.

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Dev,

you'll like my system when you come over to hear it. Only problem is it's hard to tell the two apart sometimes.

BTW, if you want a CDS-II with your favourite remote, buy an old CDS-I & have it upgraded!!

cheers, Martin

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Willem, talk with the chap you purchased it from must have incurred some damage.

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Not necessary as the unit came in a sealed package and had not been used. I was the first to use it. I suppose the remote touched/scratched another object and lost it's paint. What worries me is that next to this blue spot I can rub off very easily the rest of the black paint. Hence my comment on the adhesiveness of the paint used for the Flash.
If the plastic of the body would have been black I wouldn't have noticed it, but since the plastic of the body is a flashy blue every scratch becomes very obvious.

Ciao!

Willem

If you wish to send the unit back to me, I will investigate.

It does seem that the paint doesn't stick very well, and, like Willem says, beacuse its blue underneath it start looking very tatty.