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Hi, maybe you should look at the service manual that's available here. It apparently considers this to be some sort of updated 701. But the model number you mention is explicitly shown - therefore there is no mystery. The BL and GY mentioned in the name are surely the colours BLack and GreY? You can find the MS702MK manual at electrotanya.com http://elektrotanya....f/download.html This will help to figure out what the differences are, perhaps? Upon examination it makes me wonder if the only differences may be the NVRAM settings programmed in (using service mode). But don't let me encourage you to wreck a perfectly good machine......

Then (since this tends to suggest that it uses the lossless part to help build the higher bitrate when extruding to external medium such as MD or CD) you have no reason to use the 256 AAL, as long as you don't want to play it direct on your PC to your HiFi. In that case I am unsure exactly what the playback codec does. I find that (forgetting about AAL) HiSP has a bit more "glitter" to it, but that LP2 is good enough for nearly all purposes. And a number of others here who flirted with higher bitrates have ended up at that position also. There are also diehards who insist "uncompressed or give up". Anything I record that's neither live (microphones) nor CD-to-begin-with ends up at 132. CD's (for me) end up at 256kbps AAL. Live stays as CD quality just for ease of editing. Radio programs and the like go to 256kbps or 132kbps. That ends up being mostly a matter of convenience as the HiMD format allows 8 hours 256kbps (on 1GB media) - longer than 163 minutes in a single chunk. I haven't made serious use of HiLP yet, there are plenty who do. It's ok for packing a large compilation of CD's onto a single 80m disk for portable listening. Glad you're having fun....

It says "bit rate for the tracks transferred to device/media with fast transfer" (note my emphasis of the word "fast") So what that means is the lossy part of the file is THAT BIT RATE. I recommend you may want to use 256 rather than 132. I have no evidence for my previous assertion. But I do know that when you transfer AAL to a portable device it only transfers the lossy part. You can check this yourself, and whether the 132->256 conversion works or is sub-optimal.

Just a final note: you may have set the "lossy" portion of the AAL rip to be 132kbps. Suggest you switch to 256kbps. You can experiment but you should find that 256kbps AAL converts nicely to 132kbps LP2, and of course the 256kbps is what ends up on the portable device bit-for-bit when you use that format (known as HiSP). What won't sound so good (I think) is using 132kbps AAL to generate 256kbps on the HiMD. Of course I could be wrong about the above. But I think the default rip for AAL may be 132, not 256. In my limited experience, 352kbps won't make a difference for portable.playback.

You've done just about exactly the right thing (you've avoided the big pitfall of ripping to WAV or 1411kbps LPCM using Sonic Stage). If you purchase some 1GB disks you could experiment with 256kbps as a playback format - you'll get almost 8 hours on a disk - whereas at that data rate with "80 minute" disks, you'll only have 2hr 20m. You're getting 4hr 50m with the setup you have. 132kbps (known as LP2 because it doubles the old SP times) is a pretty good compromise for portable listening, and putting it on to HiMD format maximises the bits on the disk (compared to a conventional, will-play-in-a-preHiMD-deck). You should (IMHO) probably avoid the "dynamic normalization" setting when using the RH1 as a player, if you want to be careful with your ears

Instant - faster than MD. (A440 is right the PCM-M10 takes a while, but the ICD-SX750 and 950 do not).

the icd-sx712 is available on amazon for $113 at the moment http://www.amazon.co...r/dp/B004M8ST2W The 750 is available used refurbished from amazon for $122. It has the very useful LPEC codec, which I like (and better than MP3) for a lot of reasons. However for making CD's from your own singing, LPCM is fine. http://www.amazon.co...ting/B00387E5D0 The 813 is available from Ebay for $255 or 162 quid. http://www.ebay.com/...t-/280809047489 PCM-M10 is available in the USA for about $229.

Here are some numbers to check in google and/or amazon and/or ebay. The diehards here swear by the PCM-M10 (which incidentally is not even sold in Canada). I got mine from the States and it was defective. I had to get a second one, and even then the MicroSD slot seems to be only quasi-reliable. However any of this series you will (IMHO) love (however they probably are considered past stock at this point): ICD-SX700 (1GB) ICD-SX750 (2GB) ICD SX-850 (4GB) ICD-SX950 (8GB) The next generation to these are ICD-SX712 (2GB with MicroSD slot), ICD-SX813 (4GB with MicroSD slot). There are some other differences between these two and the previous ones, some improvements but some removal of features too. I've written quite a bit about these amazing little beasts. Unlike the PCM-M10 they don't need a tripod stand, although the included clip/stand thingy actually has the right hole for standard screw in mike/tripod. They can use external mics but the inbuilt ones are quite good anyway. And they are drag and drop.... no "protection" (in fact heavy duty DRM encryption) BS that bedeviled so much of the minidisc paradigm. Hope this helps. I'd like to hear about X-Application Launcher - but last time I looked it didn't actually load the ENGLISH language version of Sonic Stage V, which the Japanese one most definitely DOES. That reminds me, I can actually try X-app on my NW-A3000 because it supports that. Not sure about the RH1 (and Sonic Stage V) in any event. What I am looking for is the software to load on to the generation of flash walkmans. Allegedly available in UK and Japan but not in the US/Canada model I got (only MP3/WMA/AAC etc). Stephen

1. Correct 2. It's not fully implemented when I last checked 3. Don't worry about it, just try. I'm curious about this for an entirely different reason, is there a UK version of X-app? 4. I'd start using HiSP mode (or LPCM for which you would need a few 1GB disks) Finally, there are other machines by Sony, non-MD (flash based) that you may wish to consider for the medium to long term, preferably before Sony stops making THOSE for whatever reason. Cheers

Yeah looks like it's the stray light adjustment or however it's called on the DMD-1000. To verify, just use a black marker on the transparent part so it all looks black. I make no warranty as to whether the marker will eventually come off on your portable but I don't think that's a big worry for one little test. If you cannae be bothered tae fix't (would mean a trip to Jim Hoggarth by the deck at least), put that type of disk to one side. Cheers Stephen

Does any one else, after clicking on the only image, get weird stuff from some commercial site when they do this, in the background, and also when you close the image that pops up?

I recall some problems with that particular variety. What it and the only other failures I have ever seen, shared, was that the minidisc is in a semi or fully transparent sleeve. Something about stray light adjustment. What I am not clear is whether the recording DECK has to be fixed, or the portable. Probably the deck - but they don't call it that in the manual. The RH1 has a "stray light adjustment" as part of the normal self-servicing in TEST mode. (interestingly, to us service mode freaks, this adjustment is only mentioned in passing as something that takes place AFTER all the regular tests have been completed in automatic mode). However it could still be the way the disk was recorded that is the problem. What deck? Has anyone adjusted or serviced this RH1? I only ever saw this problem on my in-car changer - and this was an MDLP (LP2) disk made on a deck (JE640 I think).

yeah, that's kind of like the situation where it doesn't spin up because the motor's "gone".

hahahah :) those are floppies (funny they were still called floppy even after they went stiff)

If it spins ok, you may be in line for an IOP (NVRAM value) adjustment and nothing else. But without a Laser Power Meter, it's hard to be certain.

To be fair, Jim, my C13 saga started with a unit that tried to read the disk, I replaced the motor, no change, and even after a head replacement still gave me (at least) C13. To OP: it's never simple, because the MD system is all based on servos and feedback loops to position the head and read the data. One component dead or misaligned, and you get the same C13 (or C14) error. It *is* still possible that it's only the IOP value. But not all that likely unless you sometimes see C14. Certainly you can check if Jim is right - by taking the lid off and watching. But don't be tempted to poke it

That has been disputed. It's not clear that this procedure is reliable. Indeed our resident repair man, Jim, says (as have others before him) that it simply doesn't work.....

C13 means it can't read the TOC. Probably the laser is blown, needs adjusting, or somehow the NVRAM has lost the critical IOP value it would have been programmed with that matches that particular read-write assembly. If you can record a completely NEW virgin blank disc, then the worst thing you need is a new laser assembly. The least will be an adjustment of some kind. Jim Hoggarth here on the board has a deck repair service he runs via Ebay that is quite reasonable, and since you are in the UK, eminently convenient.

Get some tips by searching posts by Jim Hoggarth. This generation of machines are tough to fix. No consensus. Probably better to look for a used deck, they don't cost a lot on Ebay or even Craigslist. Where are you located?

Are you trying to make HiMD disks or NetMD disks? If the latter you have to get rid of the driver installed by SS and put in the 64-bit driver from the downloads section. If the former you need to go and set the Disc Mode on the unit itself (to HiMD) so that it doesn't keep dropping into NetMD mode and causing the driver to crash because you didn't install the right one.

I can't get used to the fact that the 20ES is more recent than the 50ES. By more than 2 years and several ATRAC revisions.

Sorry, not true. The 10x speed was on legacy uploads using the NetMD protocol on an RH1. The question raised was about uploading of (L)PCM from a HiMD. This is unaffected by the problem described.

We should probably add a few things into that file, and I guess I will also upload my modified NETMD052.INF as well. There are still a few units missing, such as the ATRAC/SonicStage capable NWZ series of which I am about to acquire one, so there's no panic on this......

Well done. I remember going through roughly the same set of machinations when I first tried to do something like this. I'm just pleased it worked. I will either post a separate version for Sharp, or more likely modify the standard version to continue being the world's largest omnibus USB driver. Thank you for persisting because it helps everyone who comes after you, too.

Most definitely. It's almost certainly wrong-named, and it's (in any event) for a Memory Stick Driver. Unless you know that you have Sony MS Duo type flash memory chip in your computer, you do not need this.