PhilippeC

Test another MD. Test another headphone, another cable.. Any source of problem.

Could be that simple. Hi Jimma...

Hi, excuse me I have been busy. About the honest price (here) , it is under 200CH . Even if you see much better prices on eBay. Have been in touch with some people in your country or around ? In France, the last active MD forum is laserdiscplaza.fr which have is own MD section. I am a member (same avatar). In Germany, minidiscforum.de Shiping price also must be correct (it is not so heavy).

Salut Philippe, And the W...1 ?

phamcu consider the QS to be better built thant the ES and told me to keep my JB980 (I did not think of selling mine) when I asked about his 780ES for sale. Here in Vietnam, JE and JA are easier to find than JB (I did not find any).

in 2017, in 2017... This is not that far ;>)

Sed vitae, Dura vitae https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54e652f6e4b021b682b6d4d1/t/54fa2ba7e4b060b95662d8a0/1425681320349/

Hi Lord Daz, Where are you from ? Do you accept to send your unit to another country ? Do you accept a money transfer or a Paypal payment ? How much your MZ-RH1 box & accessories are completed ? Do you have the original box with the user manuals ? Do you have a pack of Hi-MD discs to sell with it ? RH1 status : is the LIP-4WM still able to get the charge ? Is the OLED screen still bright ? Is there some scratches or a has the unit been hurted ? Pictures are often the answer to these questions.. Please note that you are a newbie with no reference from now here, meaning that any seller will be suspicious if there are few informations, specialy on the unit condition. Here we cannot get any money protection during the deal, so trust between us is very important. The good section is "classifieds" and your topic will be move by Stephen (sfbp) is you are not in there.

Check also - eBay Germany : germans like the Sony ES - minidiscforum.de

No, except hack another deck. Where are you from ?

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The place you are living, look like a nice place where to fish. Good luck with you sale Mick.

Sony Neige has been the very last MD blanks on the market. Good luck in your MD project.

chris5, as you told me in a PM that you (or make) print yourself the cover/booklet, can you show us exactly how do you make it (templates, etc) ?

Just for my information, how much costed the parcel/kg to HK from UK ?

A "recording quality itself has more importance"stage whisper Yes bluecrab, when my bought my first real Hi-Fi system in the end of 80's, the reseller said that for him the order of importance (it was the beginning of CD) was the source (the best being the Linn LP 12 turntable), the amplifier and then the loudspeakers. So my loudspeakers, pairs of Tannoy R1 (bookshelf) or Rega Ela (floorstand) have been connected to a range of better to better CD players and amplifiers rather than buying bigger and better loudspeakers (that I did finally). CD Mission PCM 7000 ----> CD Microméga ---> CD Cyrus dad3 -----> CD Arcam delta 170.3 compact disc transport + Arcam delta Black Box II (in France), CD Marantz 5400 (in Vietnam) // Ampli Cyrus One ---> Cyrus 2 + PSX ---> Einstein the Amp (high-end) in France // Rega Ela / Tannoy R1 ----> Davis Krypton (high-end start) in France. Now that the sound could be "dematerialized" and because I live in Vietnam (far for copyright control), the way to go is even to put aside Flac lossless files and rather listen to SACD/DSD music, all dowloaded from torrents files. Just need a good -enough DAC (but I am not at all ready again to invest thousands of $ in that). And also to use a to 5.1 loudspeakers system which still enlarge the scene using my Top Of The Line (at its time, around 2002) receiver Yamaha DSP-AZ1 with 24bit/192kHz ability (bought 450$ instead of 4500$ in 2002). Even my poor looking CAV audio (chinese brand, huge & heavy 115 cm front loudspeakers), my vintage Sansui S-7XV loudspeakers and my very new impressive Monitor Audio Silver W12 subwoofer are reaching the top with it (SACD/DSD + basic sound card + ampli). The DFX audio enhancer software even give a boost to old recordings. MD in that ? The touching disc companion.

About DACs (small distance from the original subject but as we love to write on this forum... forgive me) ! MD decks can be used as DACs but nowadays for that kind of use, modern DACs 24bit/96kHz, 24bit/192kHz to even (heaven??) 32bit/768kHz are a better deal for audio reproduction. Well, that is what I was thinking not so much time ago. Nonetheless for a MD deck relevant use, I would rather put those modern DACs between a PC (listening to SACD/DSD audio files) and the MD deck itself just to get the hightest quality possible during the MD recording phase (mostly the best jitter control). An analogic or a digital recording (limited to 24bit/48kHz) ? Only our ears can choose. I think that for that use, nothing can beat a good audio source, analogic or digital. My own Sony MDS-JB980 is connected to my digital (24bit/192kHz) amplifier, as a source., but to be honest I cannot say if I can ear a difference between the analogic connection or the digital connection. I suppose that the recording quality itself (master quality + recording deck quality + a well-adjusted level) has more importance. Some people with a better technical experience than mine in the audio recording area (a thing easy to do), have written about this subject, and especially about this new habit of including a 24bit/192kHz cheap inside a smartphone : https://www.androidauthority.com/why-you-dont-want-that-32-bit-dac-667621/

Rintintin & Rusty ?

Lucky I am being able to find a guy in Vietnam who will do the work for me or simply buy another deck instead running into those technically abilities. I admire you who are able to do the job.

Note that you are not lost in space, any other deck or portable unit with the type R (benefits of Type-R can be heard on ALL minidisc players) will give you even a better sound. An ability that the MDs-E12 have. Just in case, E10's service manual can be found here https://elektrotanya.com/sony_mds-e10_sm.pdf/download.html

That is the problem with pro decks : when you find one on eBay, that mean that the professionnal seller has decided to sell an unit close to its end, but no problem he can reset the hour counter close to 0 and said that the unit got a new lens !

Maybe the recording lens is dead ? The E10 has a hour counter that can tell you how many time recording and wirting lenses has been used. Let us wait for some more comments.

But a brand new JA555ES. I ask to a friend on the laserdiscplaza.fr forum if he has a deck for you.

Your ability save you 500€

How much do you pay for it at he beginning ? Long live MD !