Topic: remember the JB3?

[heath]

sure there is.  The car window on the interstate is an option.

as you like - but JB3s fetch 100-200 bucks on ebay everyday...

For real?  SHit--I should sell mine!

[earmonger]

$100+ for the 20GB on eBay. Not too shabby.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=creative+nomad++jukebox&_sadis=200&_ipg=200&_adv=1&_sop=12&LH_SALE_CURRENCY=0&_osacat=0&_dmd=1&LH_Complete=1&_trksid=m570.l3201&_nkw=creative+nomad++jukebox+III&_sacat=0

[crazifyngers]

damn.  I am moving across the country and throwing all kinds of stuff away.  I didn't think it was worth anything and pitched mine last week 

[Gil]

$100+ for the 20GB on eBay. Not too shabby.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=creative+nomad++jukebox&_sadis=200&_ipg=200&_adv=1&_sop=12&LH_SALE_CURRENCY=0&_osacat=0&_dmd=1&LH_Complete=1&_trksid=m570.l3201&_nkw=creative+nomad++jukebox+III&_sacat=0

Perhaps I shouldn't have given away two of them

[jtblackmore]

Did they every add software to allow this unit to work with Windows 7? if so, let me know...

[alpine85]

Wow.

This one sold for $200

Here's  a NOS one that's at $167.50 and counting (with 3 days left!). 

Unbelievable.

I still have 2 of 'em.  Just used one back in February at a festival as a 3rd deck.   Used the other one as a car MP3 player for a long time. 

Oh - I believe the answer on the Win 7 question is no.  I have an old laptop with a firewire jack and XP installed.  JB3 transfers is pretty much the only thing I use it for.

[George]

These make wonderful sounding mp3 players...the headphone output on the njb3 is quite powerful.

[yltfan]

We need a plan to unload these beasts on Ebay, taking turns, not flooding the market. Kinda like the Tapersection version of OPEC. Who gets to go first?

[spyder9]

I wonder if anyone modded one for an SSD drive.  That would be cool.  I bet it would improve the battery times.

[alpine85]

We need a plan to unload these beasts on Ebay, taking turns, not flooding the market. Kinda like the Tapersection version of OPEC. Who gets to go first?

Ha!  Yeah no kidding...  You wanna go first?

I'm going to keep an eye on these prices... I really don't need 2 of them, but I'm a slut and a hoarder.

I may end up putting one up there for a BIN of 200 or something, just to see what happens.

[alpine85]

Just checked...

That "new old stock" one sold for $340 !!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/300712660712

Oh - on the SSD thing - I seem to remember someone saying it couldn't be done for some reason (something about IDE vs SATA, I think)

[Brian E.]

Just checked...

That "new old stock" one sold for $340 !!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/300712660712

Oh - on the SSD thing - I seem to remember someone saying it couldn't be done for some reason (something about IDE vs SATA, I think)

people are crazy.  why not just buy a high end zoom or R09 at that point?  It's not like the JB3 has mics.

[page]

Just checked...

That "new old stock" one sold for $340 !!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/300712660712

Oh - on the SSD thing - I seem to remember someone saying it couldn't be done for some reason (something about IDE vs SATA, I think)

people are crazy.  why not just buy a high end zoom or R09 at that point?  It's not like the JB3 has mics.

Only logic I can think of is as a collectable or as an mp3 player. Nobody is buying it to record.

[newscane]

Just saw this thread... I did a three day folk fest a couple weeks ago.  Ran a M-10 and two JB3s as backup 16bit recorders and was glad I did.  Still the fastest tansfer over wire I've got... not sure how a MicroSD card would go in a card reader... need to get  one and see I guess.

I'm also using one to go TT>LineOut>UA5/toslink>JB3 to digitize some LPs.  Not the highest end solution but it works for me.

Both of mine eventually failed at the lineIn jack but Jackpine and I fixed them both.  The combo jack is mounted via through the board solder points which eventually work loose causing static spikes that for months I thought was caused by faulty toslink cables.  There's a thread on that here somewhere.

A lot of MicroSD cards I've seen for sale include an adapter to a full-size SD card...

[gd420mj]

I'm dusting mine off now to record this weekend. Got my UA-5 fixed (took forever to get pots from alps) and goona do the classic UA5>JB3. I got one with 20G and one with 80G. They always worked for me. Only had line in jack break once and easy fix. I use them occasionally to record optical out of mac when recording live streaming shows.

Batteries are on sale on ebay now for these for about $15 from hong kong.

One alternative to get into windows 7 might be to pull out the hard drive and put it into an enclosure. I've done this in the past. bit of pia but should work.