PhilippeC

The only guy who could in theory do better than you (I mean even taking pictures of his own desks) is Pierre "100 decks" Nogez in France, who still have 80 decks in stock.

I take some holidays in Nha Trang (Vietnam) so I will do it in two weeks. I recognize the right side of MY Panasonic SJ-MD605 5 MD deck, picture took while your repaired it

Try also listening your CD with your PC and recording in real time with Winamp (Wincue plugin) or foobar2000 (Post track silence plugin), you can set a TWO seconds silence between each track and be sure you will have a T-mark after each track while recording on your MD. I hope you have a optical output on your PC, more convenient.

or maybe hakstone is recording from his computer = need a "silence" between tracks

maybe Jimma who own a very special MD :

but you are still able to record in real time in real SP

http://cgi.ebay.fr/Over-1500-used-Minidisc-available-/251106091169?pt=Lettori_Minidisc&hash=item3a7716e0a1#ht_500wt_1202 but his price per MD is high (2 euros...) he has some MD players too, included a Sony EH10

MD fan forever !

No phamcu, you have ALREADY your dream at home with the black JA555ES I sold to you

both the french jo la patate and the vietnamese Pham Cu are interested ! .................... ....................

http://cgi.ebay.fr/Sony-Hi-MD-minidisc-recorder-player-MZ-NH600D-and-MZ-NH900-/150855192802?pt=US_Personal_MiniDisc_Recorder&hash=item231fab90e2#ht_500wt_1202 D like "downloader"...

Just send a direct mail to phamcu (remind him you are from this forum and that you got the information from me) : su_su1972@yahoo.com

And now, even the Sony CMT-A01MD for 70$... and phamcu has a LAM-X1 without speakers but, for 10$ more, you can have the Panasonic SC-HD505, the little sister of my Panasonic SC-HD605 which has also the bi-amplification and an incredible sound

I dig the subject again to tell you that you can download dozens of huge ebooks librairies (epub, mobi, pdf...), specially complete "calibre" librairies, using a web site like bitsnoop.com and a torrent downloader like bitorrent. Maybe you don't authorized yourself to do so but it is just to tell how me I got my ebooks.

Was it Jim or Stephen who had spoken about fake LIP-4WM batteries recently ? I checked all my MD portable units collection recently and took time to control my LIP-4WMs power level. Two of them were difficult to introduce inside my two RH1(numbered 3 and 4, the thin ones 0 and 1). Then I remembered suddenly that it was the trick to recognized fake ones, the thickness. No surprise anyway, a friend of mine brought back to me those two LIP-4WM two years ago from Hong Kong. Azureal : i got the third one in vietnam for 2$, never succeeded to charge a LIP-4WM (but all is writen in chinese so maybe i forgot to do something)

Yes, if connected to common loudspeakers like the original ones, unimpressive. But if connected to good loudspeakers, everything can change. More a collector than a piece of art anyway.

http://cgi.ebay.fr/Sony-MXD-D3-CD-Minidisc-Deck-MINT-CONDITION-WITH-ORIGINAL-PACKAGING-/190700744051?pt=US_MiniDisc_Decks&hash=item2c66a66d73 Yes, it look mint

some pictures

As noticed here : , I found one ((uncomplete, ,no MD, no loudspeakers) in Vietnam for 3/4 of the price of thids complete one in UK : http://cgi.ebay.fr/S...=item4ab96d08d2 Nices units all interconnected with Firewire cables (old school...), the system can be connected to a PC (MD editing) but sadly no drivers for Windows XP. Maybe somebody had succeeded to made the system recognized ?

You make me think I missed those ones : I do it again...

No surprise, he is a phamcu friend !

that is why my NH900 is still in stock waiting for an english trip to jim scheduled for my next - long - trip in France

Edit : The Sony STR-LSA1 is normally composed with also a MD deck (complete, name as the Sony Lissa system). All decks are plugged with firewire cables and the system can be connected to a PC or a Mac but sadly this system did not have success and the firmware did not even have not been updated for Windows XP ! Accordingly, the price of 6T (around 300$US) is huge specially with the MD deck missing... edit : www.hifichoice.co.uk Date Printed: 06 January 2006 . . . . . . Sony LISSA hi-fi system ..: ***** 5 stars...High quality digital transmission, a good working relationship with your PC and reduced threat of wire trippage. Brilliant!. . . . No doubt about it, hi-fis are getting tastier - acres of champagne gold or silver adorn the most ordinary systems these days, with blue LEDs, achingly sexy curves and the kind of pointy buttons that just scream 'touch me'. But often, such beauty is only skin deep - 'fur coat and no knickers' as my old mum used to say. . . . . . . . . . Now I never thought there was anything wrong with shreddie-free posh birds myself, but I can see her point when it comes to hi-fi. For no matter how tasty your system is, you only have to take a peek around the back to see how messy it all is in reality. Cables snake from socket to socket, like a giant technicolour spaghetti farm, inevitably getting straggly, tangled and full of nits. Just like our Vicky's hair. . . . . . . . . . But it doesn't have to be this way. Sony's LISSA system comes with just six cables - three to power the separate CD player, MiniDisc recorder and FM/AM receiver and three iLink (IEEE1394 FireWire) leads. Of course, you'll need another couple to actually get sound out to the speakers and get radio broadcasts into the tuner, but that's still a darn sight less than your average hi-fi. The LISSA has just one 4-pin to 4-pin 200Mbps cable running to each component, enabling you to record, playback and generally get each bit of kit to talk to each other without spending a fortune down your local hi-fi shop. The third 'spare' iLink connector enables you to control the whole shebang from your PC - simply install the Digital Link Manager software onto your Windows 98 or Windows 2000 machine and you can edit your MiniDiscs, choose which radio station to listen to or even adjust the system's sound settings without ever having to retrieve the credit card-size remotes from down the back of the sofa. In fact, the only obvious downers at this stage are that you can't copy music from the LISSA to your PC (or vice-versa) and that Sony's thoughtlessly forgotten to include Mac software despite the fact that iLink is Apple's technology in the first place. Grr. . . . . . . . . . . But who cares, eh? The LISSA enables you to live in a relatively wire-free world, making the whole thing a piece of the proverbial to set up and use. The gorgeously thin silvery boxes look great stacked together (with their blue LEDs, natch) and have a rather nifty habit of powering themselves down after three minutes if they're not in use. Included in the largely gimmick-free spec is a gizmo called HATS (High-quality digital Audio Transmission System) which stores digital audio data temporarily in buffer memory to reduce unwanted jitter; there's 'Ping' that lets you know which component (CD, MD or tuner) is currently selected by flashing a series of symbols up in the display; and SF Edit which enables you to adjust the recording level of a track once it's been copied to make it quieter, louder, or fade it in/out. By far the cleverest thing though is that you can daisychain up 63 iLink-equipped components at any time, with transfer rates of up to 400Mbps possible. And when you consider that iLink is fast gaining ground as a simple, superspeedy connector for camcorders and home network systems (step forward Pioneer), that looks like a smart Sony move indeed. . . . . . . . . . But you want to know about the sound, right? It's pretty good. It's not going to give high-end hi-fi buffs sleepless nights, but partner it with a decent set of speakers and it'll rock your world. The CD bit sounds upfront, detailed and highly musical, the MiniDisc ditto. Even the tuner's not too bad. Things only get a little out of shape when you crank the volume LOUD, but that's to be expected when you have only 50W per channel to play with. It's certainly a big leap up from your average mini system and a darn sight better-looking that most hi-fi separates. Its only real threat, in fact, is likely to come from 'proper' lifestyle separates made by people like Marantz. . . . . . . . If there's one fly in the ointment, it's the system's very simplicity when it comes to cabling. Since it's pretty much dependent on FireWire for batting digital signals around, you'll be hard pushed to find any additional sockets for hooking up other kit you may own - the LISSA has just one analogue phono input for a more traditional cable in. But it is a highly accomplished lifestyle system which looks and sounds the biz. The fact that it hardly needs any cables is a massive bonus... only the threat posed by Bluetooth's wireless transmission system and the promise of gold-plated cable upgrades stop the LISSA from being perfect out of the box as it is. . . . . . . . FEATURES ; CDP-LSA1 CD player, MDS-LSA1 MiniDisc recorder, STR-LSA1 50W per channel FM/AM RDS receiver with 30-station presets, iLink (IEEE1394 FireWire) sockets, enabling up to 63 source components to be linked together, 1xRCA (phono) analogue input, PCLK-LSA1 Digital Link Manager V1.0E control software (Windows 98 2nd edition/Windows 2000 only), HATS (High-quality digital Audio Transmission System) function, radio station/source naming, speaker binding posts . . . . Retail-price € 2199,00

http://www.5giay.vn/...ui-kenwood.html Text : use Google Traductor Prices :1T = 1.000.000 VND = 48 US$ / 1 ngan = 100.000 VND I have already TWO bookshelves : - Onkyo FR-SX7 - Panasonic SC-HD615 (with an incredible sound, similar to the one given by a Cyrus One amplifier) .. but I am very excited to buy a new one when I see all those pretty bookshelves My favourites : - Yamaha AX-9 - Onkyo X-T1X : CD only but what a look ! - DVD Pioneer PR-7DV :DVD , VCD , CD , Mp3, MD MDLP - Sharp SD-CX9 : MD-CD bookshelf deck with a LCD screen - Kenwood VH-7PC & RD-L7MD :

I have myself a Creative Xi-Fi Platinium and I record all my MDs in real time with it (set the Crystallizer close to the maximum, 3D around 50-75%). I use for that foobar2000 + Kernel streaming audio output + Post track silence plugins. With Winamp use rather Wincue. Before I was found with DFX audio enhancer but it is something that you cannot use with this X-Fi souncard (too much distorsion) if you listen to lossless quality music. On my laptop to DFX has is utility, specially with MP3 and movies. Even with this SCMS protection, may be it still possible to get a lossless copy (I use the Exact Audio Copy shareware) on your computer ? And even if, everybody say that the analog copy sound better !