thomasraden

Well, tried to order MDR-V6 from Amazon in USA, but them americans do not export or ship that kind of electronics to europe!!! Anyone that know a webshop in europe, preferrably the UK who sell these headphones? We cant get them in Sweden. Amazon in the UK did not have them.

I´ll give the V6's a try. I hope these new headphones are not that high in the middle frequency register as most headphones today are thats making them sound cheap and plastic. Are the MDR-V700 an alternative if I cant find the V6's? I was almost on the verge of removing the CD6 elements from the case and mounting them into a pair of new cheaper Sony's. What I miss from most of todays headphones are their capability to capture even the anomalies of the sound of analog recording equipment. Also, most headphones seem to be not that sensitive to lower power sources as my CD6's were.

I found them on the web now. It's actually a pair of MDR-CD6. Definitely out of sale, not even available on ebay. Any ideas for a similar product with the same characteristics?

I looked around a bit, but the V6' listed does not look like the ones I have though. Could mine be another model as well?

I have what is probably an old Sony MDR-V6 similar model from around 1984 that is beginning to be kind of worn out. This model is out of production since long gone. I have never been able to find a similar replacement that has the same frequency response and clarity as these. They reveal everything. Most headphones I've tried are either too unsensitive (mine had a sensitivity of over 112db if I dont remember wrong) or they are too high or too murky in the middle range. Can anybody help with suggestions for replacements?

My MP3 files are CBR files with 44 kHz and mostly 224kbps or 256kbps. I dont have any FDDSHOW codec in the system. Media Player 9 is in my XP SP2 system, other than that, its newly installed with nothing else as a test. When importing the MP3 files in SonicStage, the files on the left hand side in the menu can be played with sound, I guess those are the imported ones. The files on the right hand side in the menu, those downloaded to the MD are silent when played. I have not tried to upload them back to SonicStage and played them there though. A sample of one of the mp3 files that always ends up silent on my MD can be downloaded from here: http://web.telia.com/~u10900089/ftp/coltrane.mp3

Have anybody had this problem before? Some MP3 files when transferred to my MZ-NH700 plays totally silent on the MD player. When converting these MP3 files to WAV and then transfer them to the MD they do play OK. It's a very annoying problem though. The problematic MP3 files are WAV files coded with Audiograbber and the freeware LAME encoder 1.32 engine 3.96. Bitrate of the problematic MP3 files are 224 and 256 kBit, but I can not find anything else that differs them from files that convert to ATRAC with sound successfully playable on the MD. I tried reinstalling a fresh copy of windows XP with servicepack 2. On top of this I tried different versions of Sonicstage from 2.2 and 2.3 with no better results. These versions seem to be the core in the system I have now: OpenMG secure 4.0.05.10290 Sonicstage 2.3.00.11020 Can anybody help out?

Thanks guys. Last week I upgraded my SS2.1 to rev 2.2. After that upgrade, every MP3 file that I sent to my MD was plain silent when played on the MD. Sending WAV-files to the MD was working OK. Also, the download mode went stuck to 48 kbit whatever settings I did in SS. I tried unistall, reinstall, downloading the patch for solving the known SS problems under XP SP2 and all that. It all ended up by me having to reinstall the whole XP again. Then it worked. Anyone seen this before? I guess some of the MG modules went screwed up.

I have Sonicstage version 2.2 for my Sony MZ NH700. There is a 2.3 upgrade available. Can anybody tell me what vital bugfixes this release have? I am not interested in the Connect Music Store that the release have as I live in Sweden and we can not buy music from that site from here anyway. There is supposed to be a 2.3 version available without the Music Store menus. There is also supposed to be a offline version of 2.3 available somewhere, but I can only find the Sony Vaio Sonicstage 2.3 as a full download and that version does not install when I plug in my NH700. I guess one way would be to download the online version and while that goes on, copy the temporary webfiles to another directory as these probably would be the full installation files that can be installed later offline. Any ideas?

Can anyone here point me to a full download of the european 2.3 version of Sonicstage?

I'm looking into upgrading my old MZ-N10 to either a Sony MZ-NH1 or a Sony MZ-NH700. The later model is substantially cheaper. I'm only after the feature of being able to record HI-MD quality from microphones and upload the resulting files to a PC. Recording sources will be quiet acoustic music. What are the sonic differences between these models regarding the microphone input, noise levels and so on? There are rumours that the mic input noise level on the MZ-NH1 is record low compared to other models. Can anybody verify this?

I bought Sony's smallest noise cancelling phones and connected them to my Sony MZ-N10 minidisk player. At largest volume, the sound is kind of low. When I connect my outstanding 1986 vintage Sony MDR-CD6 headphones, the sound is more than double the volume. These old headphones I remember had a sensitivity of more than 112 db or something. I have never found any better phones than these. Which phones are most efficient to be driven by the amplifier in the minidisc? Is there any reviews of sensitivity regarding this issue?

I have the Sony MZ-N10 but are going to upgrade to a HI-MD unit. What would be the equivalent modes and sound qualitys compared to SP, LP2 and LP4 in HI-MD modes?

I have a SB Live card with an optical input connector. When recording digitally from that input it is possible to adjust the input volume up or down in Windows, just as it would be an analog input. As a digital input is fixed in volume and desirable to be in that way I dont know the reason for wanting to amplify or attenuate the level. A recorded digital signal can never be higher than 0dB so why wanting to limit the level? Is it not desirable to do an exact copy of the digital signal? I had an earlier soundcard from Digital Only Labs that was fixed at 0 db that recorded my sources exactly as they were stored from the digital input. If my recorded material on my portable digital equipment had a top level recording of -8dB I would get exactly the same level when recording it on my PC, but this is not possible with the SB Live card. If I crank up the volume levels in windows to maximum, logically a 0dB input signal would be recorded as 0db but in this case the signal gets distorted as if the SB Live card would actually amplify it more than 0dB. Any suggestions what causes this?

I have a Sony MZ-N10 which has a rather noisy mic preamp for my taste, both in high and low amp modes. I tried different microphone types with no better results. I'm mainly recording classical vocal music. I'm thinking about upgrading to the newer NH1 HI-MD model, but is there any improvement in the amplifier in the mic input on this new model?

I would go for microphones that you can put in your ears. The Sony microphone you suggest does not have enough channel separation to get sounds in the nature authentic enough in my experience. My-minidisc has a good microphone that is useful for true stereo recordings: http://www.my-minidisc.com/artikel_en.php?ArtNr=92 The drawback with this one is the high sensitivity for wind blowing and also that the cord can make unneccessary sounds in the recording. One way to improve this is to mount the microphones on some kind of a holder at a distance from each other equal to the distance between the normal human ears, and also dress the capsules up in thicker windprotection, like woolsocks or something like that. The microphone amplifier that follows the OKM II is only necessary when recording loud music, to gain a better clipping range. If you are on a budget, the cheaper OKM I is sufficient enough for good recordings in outdoor nature: http://www.my-minidisc.com/artikel_en.php?ArtNr=104 Hope this helps