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Cool it guys. Philippe was trying to be helpful as always. No sarcasm, I am certain. He's right, you are trying to reinvent NetMD. For a few bucks you could achieve what you want automatically.

The reason it's saying Hi-MD is because you have undoubtedly set the DISC MODE to HiMD. This doesn't matter for playback and (mainly) concerns what style of disk is formatted when you put a blank disk in and try to record. Clearly what's happening is that the RH1 sees the disk as blank. So if you can turn off the other deck completely (unplug from the wall) and the disk IS readable by that unit on power-up, then the disk being written by the JA50ES is bad. Means the alignment is out. IF the disk really is blank, (on re-power-up or in yet another deck) then you have the rather sad news that your overwrite head is blown.

Please keep your foul language to yourself. It sounds like you aren't educated enough for us to explain this to you. So I will content myself saying that it can not be done. If someone wishes to wade in past the name calling, please go ahead. I wouldn't START with MP3 to begin with, to be honest, sire.

Nah, it's fine under XP (and W2000) and can be run in the XP box under Windows 7 (presuming you have Pro or better Windows). The problem is not per se the version of Windows but the bit-ness of the OS. MCrew drivers WILL NOT work under 64-bit windows in native mode. They should work in all 32-bit versions. So a 32-bit version of W7 should be fine, except that almost noone bought it.

You really don't want to record from a CD or any other pre-recorded source using a microphone. You should have received a cable optical to optical with your N707. However you can buy one really easily on Ebay, like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/10FT-3M-Toslink-to-3-5mm-Mini-Plug-Digital-Fiber-Optical-SPDIF-M-M-Audio-Cable-/381078972661 This will enable you to record from your CD player to your MD recorder. Downloading SS is pretty easy. Provided you have a good internet connection, the whole thing takes a few minutes. Most versions of Windows 7 sold are 64-bit, FYI.

NetMD works fine with the N707 in 64-bit Windows. You have to install the 64-bit NetMD driver AFTER SonicStage by downloading it from our forums.

Precisely

Probably UAC on the user's own space - whereas some component of SS needs system access - at a guess.

Exactly so. Something like this.....http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-2-0-7-1-Channel-5-1-Optical-Audio-Sound-Card-External-Adapter-for-PC-Laptop-/401014616099

I never noticed this, for sure. That's a really silly restriction IMHO. Not sure how it is enforced, either. I do know that if you edit HiMD files on a machine that in some cases the resulting file is not uploadable due to failure to reencrypt and tag the new files, especially when they don't start on a cluster boundary. But I don't recall just how widespread that bug is - it may be limited to 2nd generation (RH10/910/M10/M100) only. It caused the QHiMDTransfer guys a lot of grief until we figured it out together.

Generally speaking the stand chargers don't work all that well. You may have gotten lucky. I would have tried running the device directly off the 3V jack form the power supply before getting into all the above discussion. You cleaned the battery terminals, and then the battery revived. Or something (er.... what's an Eneloop? If it's a non-chargeable, why did you put the device into the mains...?). Glad it's working.

That raises a good point. Are you sure sure sure that these files are Hi-SP?

Wrong impedance. You cannot do what you want to do with that combination of hardware.

1. You absolutely don't need to use the RH1 for transfers of HiMD recordings. Any net connected HiMD will do (ie obviously not player. Not sure about DH models). 2. The transferability should show in the right hand pane. 3. Check your location for uploaded files. Does it exist? Do you have access to it? I'm wondering about UAC issues. Best plan is to make it a short path such as c:\music and carefully make sure the access to the folder is writeable to everyone. If you have Home Premium it is possible that you need to RunAs Administrator as I am not sure you have proper control over the access to new folders. In XP Home there was a way around this. 4. Write protected disk will PREVENT transfer, however you should get an error that clearly states this. 5. Is it possible that your disk is glitching somehow because the NetMD driver isn't installed (yes I know you don't need it for this operation - but what if the 32-bit driver is somehow getting loaded and screwing things up)? 6. Finally, did they simply go somewhere you didn't expect? If you don't label (title) the tracks in question, weird stuff can happen, funny tracks with dates and times in them (except the dates and times are that of the transfer rather than the recording).

You're right, as usual. I must have been looking at the 333ES (for comparison) and couldn't find the Type-R in the usual place then noticed it on the middle plate instead.

Time for a complete adjustment. Don't do a 911 reset, Start by doing an adjustment of the values on the bottom right of page 19. To get into service mode you will likely have to solder the TP as described (method 1), but it's possible you can use the remote (method 3). Since the display is dead you will need a remote to observe the output of your work (instead of the built in screen). You probably want to do some basic checks with 3V power supply and so on. You do NOT need a regulated power supply, just the regular one from Sony, as long as it is working. At some point you may want to check everything starts working - even if the screen suddenly comes on, by all means finish the cycle of adjustment values. IF none of the values were roughtly correct as you did this adjustment, I suspect someone did a 911 reset. Now you will have to go through all the regular realignment stuff. But cross that bridge when you have to

Well done indeed!

The front page of the service manual. Interestingly it's not in the usual place (it WAS the first type R machine) rather on the plastic plate in the middle, with writing so big you might miss it!!!!!!!!!!!

um... the photo in the service manual doesn't convince you?

you better clean the contacts with water, and then use an AA battery case with a real Alkaline AA battery in it. If it works you have your answer. When you say "a battery" maybe you need to be more precise

According to the specs, the front faceplate and the number of the chip (CXD2656) I am sure the 333ES is Type-R. Interesting, I never noticed that; most of the MDLP machines use the (?) later CXD2662.

No chance. The chip is the CXD2656 which I have in the JE630 and *that* is definitely Type-R. The next (later in time) commonly used revision is CXD2662 which was used for all the MDLP decks. Sorry for raising this over and over, but it seems to me the only thing you get is a superior DAC. Which, as long as you have optical output and a decent amp that upsamples all optical or coax in, then for playback the JE630 is plenty. It's the DAC which makes the JA20ES weigh about half a ton. By 'decent amp' I mean almost anything made by Onkyo, Sony or Integra in the last 10 years. I still drive my 1972 KEF Chorales with the Onkyo TX-SR605. YMMV, of course. Stephen PS the main advantage of Type-R is, IMHO realised when you come to make recordings in MDLP. I was reminded of this today sitting in the car listening to some loud orchestral music play that had been recorded at LP4. I believe this is the only example of a codec invented by a music company that specifically targets music played by musical instruments. I know a little about the decoding (and therefore the encoding) where certain frequencies are specially encoded (after selection by the algorithm) so as to save bits for the rest of the music. Examples include anything which makes very pure smooth notes (such as French Horn or Organ) but is not limited to that, I believe. So the poster higher up the list may be correct to say that, for SP-only, 4.5 is good enough.

Exactly what we would expect. Hang in there!

You cannot do only a "Manual Adjustment". You will need a blank MO disk and one prerecorded (CD not MO) disk and you will need to do the automatic servo calibration (called "overall adjustment mode"). The reason it says ERROR is nothing whatsoever to do with the USB/NetMD side of things. What's happened when you set the NV Reset, is that the byte at (I think) 2131 is the status (its documented somewhere) of that Overall Adjustment or servo calibration. There's a bit for CD, a bit for MO, and you must do the CD first, or the alignment for MO won't work. For HiMD there's one or two more bits yet to do with HiMD but those don't concern you today. You can cheat each overall step by setting one or more bits in that byte but I guarantee you everything will be out of whack. Hopefully you (out of curiosity) bought a prerecorded MD at some point. Otherwise you're out of luck. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

OK. I remember now, and have looked at the file. I have the patchwriter, BUT YOU DON"T NEED IT. It's absolutely not needed just because you took the machine apart and reset the NV RAM. It's to do with the NetMD functionality, which contains encryption keys that are derived from the master keys at Sony. The only reason you need to change them is if you got a brand new main board with uninitted NetMD leaf data. The rest of the alignment doesn't care about this stuff. Be happy, and proceed with your alignment. Always start by setting the temperature (it's a hex number so 0x1A corresponds to 26 degrees centigrade in the room you are working). It will reset each time you enter test mode.