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MZ-RH1 (MZ-M200) Amazon MP3 256 quality

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So I bought a MZ-M200, love it -

I have a selection of everything from FLAC (not that much) and mostly MP3 from 128 - 3xx) with a lot at 192

I've successfully got SonicStage setup on win10 with the net64 drivers, and have formatted a few discs to HI-MD (I don't have any true HI-MD discs yet)

Quite a bit of the music I have been downloading from amazon seems all MP3 265

Should I be converting the MP3 265's to HI-SP? Or just transferring straight across as MP3s 265s

I know the HI-LP seem to be less quality than the MP3 265s from reading. What about 192 MP3s?

Less concerned about storage space so I'm thinking either Hi-SP or MP3 256, 192 or above.

Does converting the MP3 256 to HI-SP not increase the quality and pointless other than maybe saving space?

Thanks,

Anthony

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Thanks, oddly after I typed the email, I noticed that the choice between Hi-SP and Hi-LP dissapeared from Sonicstage after I inserted the HI-MD formatted regular MD.

I'm unsure of where the HI-SP and HI-LP options to transfer went, or it was a bug before.

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I am in a process to try what the easiest way - if this possible (never tried before, but close to) - to record in PCM quality (lossless) Hi-Res music already on my PC. Hi-MD mode and PCM real time recording seem the only way as SonicStage does not offer PCM as a transfer choice.

In the Net-MD mode, Atrac Advanced Lossless as another lossless alternative offer to transfer LP2 , LP4 and (fake) SP modes. In Hi-MD disc format modes, all transfers are possible (except PCM and SP fake or not fake). SP fake or not fake is reserved to standard format mode.

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I've never been convinced that PCM is actually an improvement, being basically a marketing gimmick. All the ATRAC formats are 24 bit mantissa, 8 bit exponent logarithmic, whereas PCM is only 16 bits. Theoretically 352 should be the best format, then, although AAL is useful. However Hi-SP (256) is the highest bit rate that a unit will allow you to record, 352 is only available (as are 105 ATRAC3 LP3, 192 ATRAC3+ etc.) if you convert some other format using software.

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Did you format the disk NetMD or Hi-MD? There's something called "DISC MODE" which means the format of a blank disk will be one or the other, without specifically initializing the disk medium. The host disk has to be Hi-MD formatted.

Also not ALL mp3's are transferrable, only sample frequencies of 32,44.1 and 48 Khz, with bit rates (fixed or variable) of 32 to 320 kbps.

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I used sonic stage and just dragg

18 hours ago, sfbp said:

? I've never done this, but doesn't that prevent them from being played ? I'm pretty sure they have to be transferred with SonicStage. (see p.16 of manual).

I just formatted disc (regular MD) as hi-md, then drug my amazon MP3s to sonic stage and transfered them over with no conversion. It does show up as a drive in win 10 with the appropriate 64 bit driver so they could probably be drug directly across

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