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The miracle has happened!

The miracle has happened!

Indeego also asked me that but I could not find that option in the RH1.

about 4 posts earlier.

Nope, the AC-adapter goes into the USB-connector (just like with some Sony HDD walkmans). This also means full charging of the batter via USB possible.

Lack of DC-in? You get a AC-adapter but just like with some HDD-walkmans from Sony you connect it not to a separate DC-in but to the USB-connector. This means the RH1 can FULLY charge it's battery via USB (but also via the supplied AC-adapter)

This function can NOT be turned off entirely, but... you can easily remove trackmarks to pause a track right at the beginning and hit the T-mark button. The recorder will then say "T-mark off" and the T-mark on which you paused the recorder will be removed. How to make one track of a whole series of separate tracks? Pause the LAST track of the series and hit the T-mark button repeatedly. The T-mark off message will appear every time and you are removing those T-marks from the back to the front of the recording. So it is very easy to remove trackmarks and it only adds trackmarks after a long period of silence in a recording so in most cases it is pretty logical to add a trackmark at the moment an new sound appears after a long silence.

Exactly! That is what I mean! On a normal MD a track can only be marked as "Track from PC" (some units call it "TrackProtected". But there is no difference between a normal track from the PC or music that is bought via some online shop.

Untrue? This is what Sony staff told me: only NetMD recordings will NOT upload because it is not possible to decide if it is e.g. a track from Connect Music Store or it has another source. That of optical recordings might be an issue but no mention of that by Sony staff. As soon as I have the correct drivers for the RH1 I will test all posibilities.

I don't know if the deck marks the tracks as "track protected". In that case you cannot upload them but I think it doesn't. I think you can just remove the tracks without the deck giving a warning.

All recordings can be uploaded except those made via SonicStage (so via USB) because Sony otherwise cannot see from the rights of the track if it is a "normal" track or a track e.g. bought via the Connect Music Store. A normal MD has to little means of registering copyrights. So because they cannot see the difference when downloading via SonicStage all recordings made via SonicStage are blocked from uploading. All other recordings (analog line, optical and microphone) can be uploaded.

If I'm honest with you I always use the 1-line remote of the N10 with my RH10 which has a 6-line display and when on the road I NEVER look on that HUGE display and have enough with the 1-line remote (also for navigation). So I do not mind Sony made the display on the RH1 for live-recording purposes and not for use during playback. It is just like with a real MD-PLAYER like the EH1 and E10. They both have NO display on the unit itself.

As I said before: the MAC-software for the RH1 will be different from that what we know from the M10 and M100. Sadly I cannot be more specific.

A high speed transfer of what?

No, this does NOT suggest that Lame is better than ATRAC3. First of all I did not use LAME for the second analysis because I could not get rid of the low-pass (even with -k argument) so I used the Fraunhofer mp3-pro codec. Furthermore a spectrum-analysis does NOT directly say anything about soundquality. Because mp3 and ATRAC are lossy formats and the human ear cannot hear frequencies that are close to each other an audiosignal can be totally different from the original (when looking to the waveform) but can sound almost the same. The same holds for the frequency-spectrum. Also the differences are very small and the main differences are above what people can hear so everything in the chart above 19 or 20 KHz is not very relevant. With the second-generation MD's differences began as low as with 10 KHz frequencies so that was a problem very well audible. 22 KHz is very optimistic. 20 KHz is normally used and with music for most people a loss in audio above 17 KHz is already very hard to hear. I also added some improved movies of the RH1's display: Some little movies - Display modes - Navigating the menu - Recording These movies are coded in DivX 5 format.

The usual once: PCM, Hi-SP and Hi-LP in Hi-MD mode. SP, LP2 and LP4 in MD mode. I think that that is enough choice for everyone to find an appropriate bitrate for recording.

It will have much more options (I saw a Powerpoint-sheet of what Sony intends to do for MAC and that is much more than we already know from the professional M-series). And no, I do not have the MAC-software (because it is not ready yet) but I do know where to find a MAC to test it all when the software is available. Furthermore I updated my mp3-playback analysis: Green: original wav/pcm file Red: ATRAC3plus @ 256 kbps Purple: mp3 @ 256 kbps (CBR) Click for a larger view: So my conclusion still holds: the mp3-playback flaw is fixed!

I don't think that is needed because I already compared the frequencyresponse of the original mp3 with that of the mp3 played back by the RH1. Both responses match nicely!

The RH1 an NH900 have the same HD digital amplifier so you can presume they sound pretty much the same. Probably the RH1 even sounds a bit better as says it improved the soundquality by changing some parts around the amplifier-chip.

Yeah ok, but that drop-off is above 19 KHz. Much better than a dropoff that starts @ 10 KHz. And after analysing the mp3-file that drop-off is also in the original mp3 (so this drop-off is caused by the mp3-encoding, not by the RH1 playing the file).

The functions you mean are all ment purely for mp3-players but the RH1 isn't ment that way. Off course it can play mp3's but is a mobile recording device so that is what they focus on.

Did some more testing and here are some interesting results.... I already stated that it seemed that Sony fixed the mp3-playback (which had a drop-off in the high frequencies). After hearing it I now also analysed the sound by computer and here is the corresponding chart: Click for a larger view: Purple: original wav/pcm file Green: ATRAC3plus @ 256 kbps Red: LAME mp3 @ 256 kbps (CBR) So no drop off in the mp3 anymore! After hearing no difference anymore it is nice to see my hearing isn't letting me down The dynamic normalisation? That is only ment to be used during playback to give all tracks the same volume even if one track is recorded loud and the other very silent. It does not change the music itself. It just analyses a track before playback and adjusts the playback volume according to that.

The hold-switch is on the bottom, so they didn't forget that. He's totally missing the point. And the RH1 as a revamped NH1? There are to many differences to say that. I see the RH1 realy as a third generation MD.

Tested the output of the MCMD-R1. Sadly there is some kind of regulation-circuit in the box so that's the end of connecting 4 AA or AAA batteries in series directly to the USB input. The good thing however is: when I connect the cardreader to the RH1 and start transferring, the RH1 starts charging it's battery via de powersupply provided by the 4 AAA's in de MCMD-R1. Sadly the charging stops when tranfer is finished because the cardreader stops the USB power.

Indeed such thing is possible. As an electronic engineer I also will look into that to make an efficient 1.2V to 5V converter. Then you can put as many cells parallel to get an even longer batterylife! By the way, my MCMD-R1 (cardreader) also uses 4x 1.2V cells to power my RH10 when connected so probably puttting 4 cells parallel will also work (the USB-power will probably not have to be exactly 5 volt). I will check which voltage comes out of the cardreader (if it is the batteryvoltage or some electronics that changes it to exactly 5).