woppin

im in japan, ill post you one :laugh: . the gold unit looks terrible (as i think someone else has already stated somewhere). The silver unit looks a whole lot better. I was also going to get the gold unit but decided it just didnt look good enough. It lacks the bright shiny qualities of the silver model. Not a dull gold, but not overly shiny either. I would take photos for you but again, photos cant really demonstrate the difference between the two units. I guess maybe it could grow on you over time...

i agree about the `anti-photogenicness` (find me a better word please) of the ipod. after simply looking at pictures on the apple website i thought it looked ridiculous. having a look at one in the store made me seriously consider buying one. After seeing the nh1 one the other hand i was utterly repulsed. tragic that i can be swayed by beauty alone.

thanks so much...after having two minidisc units die within a year im not going to keep using md after i get my hdd player. Yeah...i guess i was looking for something that just hasnt come about yet. I also want to use the hdd to archive photos from my digital camera, but seeing as every unit around can do that its not really an issue. If the ipod had longer battery life gee the choice would be easy! I think ill stick with the iriver, as a portable audio player it will be good enough for me, and if it turns out to be good enough for home use then thats going to be a bonus. By the way whats all this about mi-md blanks being rare in the us? Theres heaps of them at the local shop along with the silver and gold nh1 models and also the eh1 and they only came about on saturday...Its interesting that just about everyone i talk to over here has an MD but wants an ipod or a flash player. Sony won the market years ago and now the poor people cant get away from it.

oh great...so the digital/line out feature is kinda useless then. I dont want an ipod because the battery life is too short. So if i was to use the hp-120 as a home stereo by linking it to an external amp/speaker set-up using the digital line out i would experience what? Disgusting bass and shrill treble or something? As far as portable sound goes, when im riding a bike and im not going to spend more than i spent on ex-71's any portable unit is going to be fine really... How many different hdd, flash, and md players have you tried? If i need more than 8 hours battery life what is the best way to go? woops...forgot to say thanks, you come across as someone whos opinion is based on fact rather than marketing rubbish.

skytherx, do you think md is really a viable format for portable audio? I was going to get an nh3d until i realised an iriver ihp-120 could do everything hi-md can do, with the same battery life, and with digital out. Without sonicstage and the drm restrictions would you favour a minidisc over a hard drive solution like an ipod?

im not in tokyo, im all the way out in toyama, will it still be the same date do you think?

there were sony posters for hi-md up at shinjuku 2 days ago, they said the release date was june. The shop attendant also said that the release date was june.

"There was no word of the release date at CeBit. So, it's still up in the air." sorry if this is already somewhere else...but what DID they say at CeBit? I think it should be a news item on the front page if they have said anything.

i will be in japan for a year starting from next week. people were saying hi-md would be released in april a while back...is this june/july stuff just for the rest of the world?

+ firewire praps change the shape so it could be a mobile phone too, but it would be a bit awkward i guess. mmm...firewire...

anyone know if you can record to a non formatted disc using the new equipment. (as in use them as a storage device and use an old MD player for music)

"Pull it off"...so pretty much its hard to do? How would you go about it? I have 2 cd burners in 2 different computers, but neither one has a good sound card. There's no way to get a cd burner to record directly from sound input like an MD is there? If there is no way around it, what is the most cost-efficient sound card to get? By the way, i thought i might get an ST-880 to take away with me...what do you think? Not sure about Sharp's remotes...the sony ones look way cooler. cheers

I looked at the equipment browser and it says "optical/line in" for the n505 and n510 sony units. Would these be suitable for putting old vinyl records onto minidisc, it says no mic input, does this mean there is no option for any analogue input? Also, when I record from the record player to my computer, the .wav recordings sound terrible, i think its my sound card that is too cheap. Is vinyl -> MD -> CD a viable option for bypassing a cheap sound card? Im going on overseas exchange for a year so originally i was going to get either the DR80, the N910 or the N10, but then i realised i wont be using the record function so maybe i can buy a cheap recorder from ebay (like the 505/510) and record all my music, then sell it or give it away, and take an E10 off to Japan... cheers.

thanks, btw is your N10 black or silver?

hey guys, well i was poking around at the sony site looking at the N910 and N10 units, and i saw the following: Frequency Response 20 - 20,000Hz (+/- 3dB) Power Handling Capacity 5mW + 5mW output level Now does that mean the advantages in buying the EX70 or EX71 earphones are slighter than you would originally think? The earphones that come with the unit have a frequency response range similar to the unit, whereas the more expensive headgear seems to be "too good" so to speak. But then my friend tells me the human ear only really receognises from about 50 - 17000 anyway, so including noise-cancelling-goodness, do $100 earphones represent a $100 improvement? cheers.