Karaoke for home suggestions, please!

Morten Nissov · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 1

Hi,

I just recently came home (US) from a business trip to Japan, where our
hosts took us to a karaoke place (private room). I really enjoyed that. I
sang in key most of the time -- only Freddie Mercury was too big a challenge
(I used to sing in a choir when I went to elementary school).

Anyway, so now I am thinking about buying a karaoke system for home use,
also to teach my son and daughter to sing in key.

I have a few questions:

- All these formats are confusing me: should I get CDG or is enough
material available in DVD?

- Should I get individual components, reuse part of my stereo, buy an all
in one system?

- Any suggestions for a good system. I would like the following abilities:
* Multi CD/DVD changer so I can choose any song by keying in a number
similar to the system I experienced in Japan
* Good sound quality
* Digital key control
* Two microphones (wireless a good idea?) with individual volume control.
* Good value for the money.

Please help remove my ignorance. Also if you know of any good FAQ, bulletin
boards etc. please let me know.

Morten

Archived from group: alt>music>karaoke

Alan Sharkis · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 14

One option you haven't mentioned is midi-karaoke. Midi-karaoke (.kar)
files are small, but playback requires a good sound card or a midi
module or keyboard. FAQ for midi-karaoke is posted every Sunday in
alt.binaries.karaoke.

Take a look!

Alan

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:40:23 GMT, "Morten Nissov"
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I just recently came home (US) from a business trip to Japan, where our
>hosts took us to a karaoke place (private room). I really enjoyed that. I
>sang in key most of the time -- only Freddie Mercury was too big a challenge
>(I used to sing in a choir when I went to elementary school).
>
>Anyway, so now I am thinking about buying a karaoke system for home use,
>also to teach my son and daughter to sing in key.
>
>I have a few questions:
>
>- All these formats are confusing me: should I get CDG or is enough
>material available in DVD?
>
>- Should I get individual components, reuse part of my stereo, buy an all
>in one system?
>
>- Any suggestions for a good system. I would like the following abilities:
>* Multi CD/DVD changer so I can choose any song by keying in a number
>similar to the system I experienced in Japan
>* Good sound quality
>* Digital key control
>* Two microphones (wireless a good idea?) with individual volume control.
>* Good value for the money.
>
>Please help remove my ignorance. Also if you know of any good FAQ, bulletin
>boards etc. please let me know.
>
>Morten
>
>
>

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You can read the FAQ for alt.binaries.karaoke at:

http://members.chello.nl/~j.a.komrij/faq.htm

singer · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 27

ther are too many players to mention but for home you should find one for
about $200 us that will play
cdg vcd and dvd that leaves you with any amount of options.

smoggy

ps:: by far the best format is cdg as the quality is much higher than many
others i have tried

"Morten Nissov" wrote in message$hY1.9056981@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net...
> Hi,
>
> I just recently came home (US) from a business trip to Japan, where our
> hosts took us to a karaoke place (private room). I really enjoyed that. I
> sang in key most of the time -- only Freddie Mercury was too big a
challenge
> (I used to sing in a choir when I went to elementary school).
>
> Anyway, so now I am thinking about buying a karaoke system for home use,
> also to teach my son and daughter to sing in key.
>
> I have a few questions:
>
> - All these formats are confusing me: should I get CDG or is enough
> material available in DVD?
>
> - Should I get individual components, reuse part of my stereo, buy an all
> in one system?
>
> - Any suggestions for a good system. I would like the following
abilities:
> * Multi CD/DVD changer so I can choose any song by keying in a number
> similar to the system I experienced in Japan
> * Good sound quality
> * Digital key control
> * Two microphones (wireless a good idea?) with individual volume control.
> * Good value for the money.
>
> Please help remove my ignorance. Also if you know of any good FAQ,
bulletin
> boards etc. please let me know.
>
> Morten
>
>
>
>