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Wow that's a lot of units, I am just collecting Hi-Md models. JUST AQUIRED A 4TH HI-MD UNIT [RH10] sound great! I am now pretty much prepared for a long life with MiniDisc.Here are my purchases of the last year and prices (all were bought on ebay) 1. MZ-RH1 [black] - The Ultimate.Stays at home, used with PC for recording and uploading. £130 2. MZ-RH10 [black] - Lovely for playback at home, beautiful sound and just the nicest screen ever.£60 3. MZ-NH600 [blue] - For Playback, where I want to take a unit where I don't want to lose/damage the others, ie beach,biking £20 4. MZ-NH1 [silver] - A thing of beauty, terrific build quality, great sound, for portable use where I know it won't get damaged. £20 NH600 I actually got for £10 by buying 2 for £40 and selling one for £30 NH1 I got for nothing by buying 3 for £60 and selling 2 for £120 - £60 profit& free NH1 So, £140 in total for 4 great Hi-Md units, not bad eh? Another one I might want is an EH1, but that'll be hard (and expensive), will probably be a MZ-DH10P next, or another RH1 if I see a cheap one.For some reason, the NH700,800 or 900 don't really apeal to me, since I have a 600, that seems ok to me. Such fun buying them off ebay. Only one I got was new&boxed (refurbished,like new) which was the NH1. They were practically giving them away at £20 each. Check out my minidisc tower I built under Sami's MyRack320 [in pictorials/reviews]

Thanks Sami, those are cheap racks for dollar! Yes, it might be that you would need one supersize rack, based on your design, that would be interesting. It all depends on how many discs you have/want overall to display of course. I see you have multiples of brand new discs, I myself am just collecting one or two of each design to keep shrink wrapped, keeping the lower section of my bookcase to have as an area for displaying all the different types of disc, the top half will be for all my recorded music. I'm not sure exactly how many different designs there are of discs but I figure it's a few hundred, maybe over a 1000 if you include all the different colours of each design. I am not going to be strict on collecting all the variables when it comes to 74/80min varieties or colours, but sometimes you can only get a pack of 5 or 10, so I get the set then if I can't get them brand new & wrapped loose. this site shows pictures of them all http://picasaweb.google.com/minidisc.channel it's great. This week I got some brand new wrapped panasonic,tdk bit clubs,quantegy and a sony ES Hardware I got this week:- mz-rh1 (at last!), 3 x mz-nh600's (2 I will sell on, keeping a mint blue model) It's all very addictive

I've never owned an ipod and don't care to, I like using SonicStage to rip my CD's to Atrac and the minidisc outdoes any other player for quality IMO. I love the fact you have more choice in players with minidisc, be it Hi-Md or Netmd, be it one with a AA battery case or the L-ion Batteries, all swappable and no worry of it dying. The quality, creativity, and endless storage all appeal to me more than having all your music on one device. And the discs are just darn cool too! It's so annoying travelling on the train and seeing the person opposite with those crappy white headphones on, I feel like telling them "what are you doing?" and having a music-off - Minidisc with decent headphones vs iPod with their crappy white things.

I have both machines, and just purchased 2 NH600's for general uses, so I am getting there for my lifelong use of MD.

I agree, get SS4.3, and invest in a new mz-NH1 or if you can afford it, an mz-RH1 (the ultimate MD), or like me, get both. RH1 for home use connected to PC using XP, NH1 goes on tour! Then you can start to use the Hi-Md format,normal and 1GB discs. I haven't used an mp3 player for over 2 years now. I am stockpiling my blanks and getting more Hi-MD machines as I go along, just bought 2 blue mz-Nh600's for general usage. £40 for both off ebay I only hope windows 7 will be usable with SonicStage for when I absolutely have to change from XP or buy a new PC.

Just finished my minidisc bookcase if anyone is interested, pics are in Sami's "my minidisc rack" thread of pictorials section, Now I can be even more addicted and add more blanks!

I have finished it! I chose a good quality varnish (Ronseal - DWISOTT) because I know it will give a good finish and not be tacky. Hope you enjoy the pics. It cost me about £20 all in. It's no chippendale, but see if you can do it for less! It has 16 shelves (3 fixed for strength) and I left the bottom one off to put some other things on it for now. It is 6 foot tall,19 1/2" wide and each shelf is 4" apart and 4" deep. It'll store well over 1,200 minidiscs at a push (stacking them horizontally and vertically on each shelf). They look good either way. Hope you like "my MiniDisc bookcase/Tower 1200" No comments on my messy room or my washing thanks lol

Just finished giving my bookcase a few coats of varnish - it said beech on the tin, but it has turned out looking like teak, which is nice. I will post some pics in a day or two.

A Stunning Collection of Blanks! Nice rack too, I am currently building my own 6 foot tall MiniDisc Bookcase/Tower to house probably up to 1000 minidiscs, blanks & used, all in one place. It's taken me all afternoon to construct from plywood I found in a skip. I've sanded it down and put it together. Over the weekend, I will probably stain it. When it's done, I will put my collection on it and post a few photos. There will probably be lots of left over space, as I currently have around 300 discs I think - loads of room to collect more. I intend on using minidisc as long as possible, so I am stockpiling blanks and collecting Hi-Md units as I go (usually e-bay) Your Sign looks like it may have the blue/Teal TDK WA disc art on it (Am i Right?), I have the 5 disc pack of those, I could resist opening the pack to look at them, but I haven't used them yet, I keep them in a Sony 10 box so they are dust free.How long has it taken to get all those great rare blanks?

UPDATE ON MINIDISC BOOKCASE: I am now making one from some timber I found in a skip, its looking good (a 6 foot tall one, kind like a cd tower but wider, and 17 shelves,so it'll hold hundreds of minidiscs, maybe a 1000+, haven't worked it out yet), when I have it complete I will post some pics in the pictorial section! I'm not sure wether to stain it or not, it's made of plywood, so sanded down it looks ok as it is, any suggestions? maybe a nice teak stain.

I got back into minidisc last year, my Iriver H140 packed in, and I lost a lot of music, I wondered wether to get a new one, but put up with playing music on my psp for a while. Needless to say, I was not happy with the music performance.One day, I decided to get out my old minidisc deck and plug it into my home system having not played it for quite a while, Man! these discs, which i created over 10 years ago still rock! great sound. I didn't have a portable, so I had a look on e-bay to see what was floating around, I had no idea what Hi-Md was, it completely missed my radar, such is the lack of advertising from sony. I decided to buy a N1 for £20 and I was happy for a while (I later sold this and decided to stick with Hi-md), but I kept looking on ebay and started to notice the Hi-Md units. I did some research into it, thanks to minidisc portal. Amazon still had the mz-rh1 but it was way too expensive, i researched it as it had positive reviews and it was very tempting. Then one day, I noticed on ebay, reconditioned mz-nh1's (silver) for £20 each! wow, I though, I immediately bought 3. The sound blew me away, I sold the other 2, so effectively got me going with Hi-Md for free, bought some Hi-Md discs from Amazon when they sold them for just £1.99 each (they are now back to £5 each) I am now at the point where I have been buying different design blanks, making artwork for the discs using PressIt labels, and converting all my cd's to md's - Lets say I am hooked! I love the creative aspect (I tend to put one artist per disc eg. all beatles albums on one Hi-Md disc or a double disc Greatest Hits on a standard MD) , I love having unlimited storage, I love the reliability, and not to mention - THE SOUND QUALITY! These little discs are so good at reproducing music it knocks the socks off any mp3 player! I am now interested in stockpiling as many Hi-Md units as I can to keep my going for as long as possible with MiniDisc. Later I hope to make myself a bespoke Minidisc storage bookcase for all my collection of Mindiscs (instead of lots of random boxes).Why weren't these available anywhere? And how big would a bookcase have to be to store 1000 minidiscs? ( I dont want them two deep, I want to see all the titles ) Just this week purchased from eBay for £120 - guess what? - yup, mz-rh1 (black), eagarly awaiting it's arrival. I will keep that next to my PC, not take it out. This will relieve my MZ-NH1 for just playing duties & possibly the odd outdoor recording, so I hope this extends both of their lives. After that? errm.. an Mz-Eh1 looks nice, but finding a cheap one in good nick is like finding hens teeth, probably the RH10 next - cheaper, and also quite nice, but not as slim.

Philips engineers in Eindhoven have already developed a miniature version of a blue laser disc called Small Form Factor Optical (SFFO) storage. These 3cm discs store at least 1GB of data, putting Blu-ray technology into phones, cameras and personal stereos. SFFO could herald a new way to sell hi-fi music and movies that play equally well on an iPod or at home on a PS3. hmmmm.... interesting. Come on Sony for god's sake, shrink a bluray disc, put it in the minidisc shell so we can have 5gb blu hi-md discs, redesign the laser bits and hey presto! - blu-md. Even stick an oled screen on for video etc. perfect for sticking a dvd on. Make it backward compatible for hi-md and legacy discs of course, this has to be a winner, not only for sony, but for tdk, maxell etc. also. It's never too late - Long live Minidisc!

I use the Koss PortaPro's, cheap foldable and sound great with my mz-nh1, I even use these at home, they give a rich sound and very surprising for the price.