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Not a chance. The mechanism of the decks is completely different, and no deck was ever made (by Sony) with HiMD. I just had a look inside mh busted JE-510 - it certainly is an intriguing idea. The killer is that the mechanism whereby the decks "slotload" is completely different from the "clamshell" arrangement of the portables. And none of the supporting electronics or connections on the deck are going to be connectable to the "mobile" drive.

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Well if the 530 is one of the nicer ones you own, maybe swapping the drives (BD Board) is a good option. Any unit made in Japan has the reputation of lasting longer and being better made (than the ones from Malaysia).

Oh boy. Generally in this sort of scenario the machine never speaks again. Replacing the so-called "BD Board" (see the service manual) will cost way more than buying another deck second hand. Some things to try are: - disconnecting from the wall for 5 mins - ie not just the off switch. - check the timer switch hasn't accidentally got tweaked (next to power) - take the lid off and see if you can see what is jammed. I had my first deck (a 510) die on me, and attempts to revive it were doomed. You may be luckier, I don't know. One option to consider is buying a bottom of the line (eg 330) deck and putting the drive assembly from that in, assuming I am right and the head electronics is dead.

Dead overwrite head. Nothing you can do (except use as a player only device). Cost of part (if available) exceeds by an order of magnitude the value of the device. Sorry. (added) I recall some folks mentioning that the connections to the head get broken frequently on this particular model and there is an outside possibility of reconnecting them using solder. Perhaps someone who has done this can explain.....

If you plug in a microphone and a pair of headphones and start recording, you should hear what you are recording as the record process is underway. Increasing the volume should make it sound louder, too. If not, then, for whatever reason, the microphone isn't working. Try the same from line in. If this works the way it should, now you should be able to press STOP, and then play back what you have recorded. Absent any error messages, you probably did.

It's true to the extent that you can put a std disk in a std player and get everything wiped off it. It's not true if you want to erase a 1GB disk, however.

You can definitely erase a HiMD using SP equipment. However it sounds as if something went wrong. Laser power?

According to Sony, Type-S always includes Type-R. However I think I spotted that when LP2 is recorded in HiMD mode the type-S playback seems inoperative. Hence real LP2 (on NetMD or MDLP) played back on a NetMD unit with Type-S sounds better than the same music at the same data rate on a HiMD formatted disk.

I’ve put off this day as long as possible. Firstly because I am in some sense ashamed of my stupidity; secondly because I kept hoping that I might be wrong. The last tests I did removed that option. Anyway I am going to share with you an adventure I had on Ebay. Perhaps to laugh about it, maybe even cry, but also with a positive side – maybe someone will suggest where I might go from here. For about 6 months now I have been looking for a blue NH700. Never mind that I managed to get 2 silver ones at quite reasonable costs last summer. I liked the blue one; after all blue is my favourite colour The blue ones, I kept losing the auction. Until this listing finally showed up. I am not going to reproduce the link, but those of you who watch every MD listing like hawks will probably have seen it – and things like it – before. So what did it say? “Returned to us by customer, maybe fixable”. Vendor in Los Angeles, USA. I thought, what the heck, maybe they just didn’t know how to use it. Well, I was right about that – in spades. I duly forked over $30 plus $20 shipping, and the parcel arrived. Now begins the fun. I took it out of the box, and find that most of the accessories, and the instructions, are absolutely untouched. For example the twist ties on the cables were intact. Externally the unit looked absolutely pristine. So now I take an already recorded HiSP disk 1GB – insert. Seems a bit sticky, push play, hear churning of mechanism but no music. Remove disk. I look inside, and to my surprise (I didn’t look before) there is something in the path of the disk insertion!!! Remove case top and bottom per service manual. WOW! the overwrite head is all bent out of shape and pointing at right angles to where it should be. With some trepidation, I straighten it out, though by comparison with the other NH700 it looks like maybe the actual part that does the writing is not even there. Gingerly reassemble. Amazing, the machine now plays back disks, no problem. Maybe the best sounding machine I have had in my hand to date. So the guy was right, sort of. Clearly the write head is dead. Interesting symptoms: MD mode, it says it performs whatever you asked it (record) and then wipes the disk blank. HiMD mode, churns for about 10 minutes and finally says REC ERR. Here’s my question: is it worth cannibalising another (working) player for that overwrite head? (and if so, must it be a HiMD machine???) The playback is perfect, whilst a new double head assembly is $128 US without shipping (ouch). Or maybe someone knows how to repair/replace just the upper head part? Note there was another identical one listed on Ebay, and possibly a third, with the selfsame wording, from the same vendor. Here’s the silliest bit of all…. the machine was made for, and came from, the Australian market (judging from the mains charger). What was it doing in LA? There’s only one way I can think of to make multiple brand new machines get into this state, and that is inserting the disk the wrong way. My mind boggles with images of perhaps a language class, and the teacher tells everyone to insert the disk, and all at once they do…… keeerunch………… Crazily yours

I think (and hope) he is banned, the proper routine is to report immediately (not reply). There's a report button under the poster's profile information.

I dropped this question on the end of another post a while back, but noone bit. So, now I ask specifically: how good are the HiMD decks at editing? Here's the problem: frequently I end up with "stuff" (as do other people) that I want to trim, or merge, and once it has been through SonicStage, the portables won't touch it, saying it is a downloaded, and therefore potentially commercial, track. However this is purely an arbitrary decision by Sony. In the NetMD world, my MXD-D400 refuses to edit LP2 tracks that came from SonicStage. Take the disk out of the D400, walk over to my JE640 deck, no problem, I can do whatever I want with those tracks. So my question is: are the same kinds of restrictions in force with the Onkyo HiMD decks? Can someone try the following experiment? Download a track at 256K (or PCM if it makes any difference) to a HiMD using USB. Take this disk, and try to edit that track in an Onkyo? Thanks guys Stephen

My previous comment related to mechanical noise. What you are describing likely comes from the microphone circuits. The automatic level control works pretty well, so you may be panicking prematurely. There are more expensive mics available - possibly you had a dud ECM-DS70? Of these, there are reports of knockoffs, though I have purchased two that probably answer to that description and both worked perfectly.

Ok. But Winzip 12 has the feature to understand ISO's, I don't know about earlier versions.

yes that is exactly what I meant, about the T Rec button, nothing to do with what you want. just to clarify, when you say you cycled the power, you mean you unplugged the unit from the wall? (i.e pressing the on/off switch has no effect here, you would have to remove all power)

I had the same experience as bluecrab. One day it upped and died. End of story. Was my first MD equipment tho, and worked great until that day. Suggest you get another deck.

The timer on the remote is something quite different. No internal clock needed, the idea in those decks which have it is to use an external timer.

Whatever you do, don't touch the disk again before you send it. Stephen

Reports vary. I have never had a problem but I usually keep it in my pocket. Recorded something a few nights back with NH700 and absolutely zippo except the person next to me coughing a couple of times.

Sorry, no, many have tried to decode the HMA files. No use at all, probably all they contain right now is an encrypted version of blank. Sony Media Services is almost certainly your best bet. With the sob story (after all noone told you not to delete things without titling them first) maybe they will even take pity on you. If they are still in business, I think the charge was around $50 to $75. Good luck! Stephen

Yes 'fraid so. I documented this about 1 month ago. You cannot delete multiple "untitled" tracks.... it simply doesn't grok it. Bad luck.

Yes you could use the RH1. You could get a deck instead, but it would have to be an MDLP deck. And you would need an optical in on the PC to do it "properly". However since these recordings are at LP2 you could use Line In and probably not lose that much in quality. The problem is likely to be what do you *add* to the sound when importing (that is new and extraneous).

There's no optical out on any unit except a MD deck. Even then, not all decks have it, so you need to read the browser carefully. Mini toslink is basically a toslink plug the same exact size as 3.5mm jack, but connected to optical (usually the square one) at the other end. Almost every walkman ever made has optical/analog line in through the SAME SOCKET - ie you can also (instead) plug in a regular stereo jack and record the signal from that. You can go from MicroHiFi to your PC using the card you have ordered, I think.

This is normal behaviour for an LP2 disk (anything that was made on a NetMD unless you took very special care to make SP disk, and even then it is only "fake SP" ie LP2 padded with blank bits to make it compatible with SP players). The MXD-D3 has only SP playback. The walkman probably generated LP2. You can edit the titles on your deck, but that is about all you can do. One way to check is to compare the size of what you actually expect on disk. Eg some Mahler symphonies are > 80 minutes, so there is no way they fit on SP. Perhaps you can remember what was there if you look at the titles displayed.

Oh yes... one more thing - some of the more recent decks (anything from about 2001 on) have "SFEdit" which is Scale Factor Edit which you can do direct on an SP minidisc itself. I have a vague reminiscence it doesn't work on LP2 anyway, and I wouldn't want to... too much resolution lost already.