jadeclaw

That mentioning of Line-out is only to state the maximum voltage available, when connecting the unit to a home stereo. The Line-Mode of the R909 has the purpose of completely defeating the MegaBass. I've had the R500 and even with Bass=Off, there was still a dynamic Bass-boost active. However, Sharp recommends to turn up the volume to maximum, I suggest to do comparison, if that defeats the Superbass in addition to switching it off. Then decide on Soundquality. Congrats... Hmm, check ebay, I say. I've seen one R909 on Ebay Germany for 102 Euros with still two days to go... So 150 bucks should be adequate. Did I say, that the R909 is the more valuable one?....

Correct.

The NH1 has it on the remote.

The disc is NOT blank. After clearing the TOC, you can put new data on it, but if you use MD for data storage, keep in mind, that the data on the disc is recoverable after clearing the TOC. The police uses that fact in criminal investigations. But this is true for all data media, not only Hi-MD. Keep that in mind, when you give data media away. To be on the save side, do the following: CD-RW/DVD-RW : Do a full erase in your CD/DVD-Writer. Floppy-disk: Do a full format, make sure, that the quick format option is unchecked. MD/Hi-MD: Place disc in recorder, erase disc, switch to PCM and record in that mode until the disc is full, then erase again. Why PCM? It's the fastest... Harddisk: Reformat, then fiill it with junk data, then reformat again. The key is to write over each sector of the disc to delete the data, that was on it. There is specialized software on the market, that does the job much more conveniently - especially, when you regularly sell off Hardisks via Ebay... Ok, as long as the media stays in your house, you don't have to go through this, only when you give it away and there has been sensitive data on it.

1 = Yes, from the Sony site: 2 = No. The digital amp improves the playback-side. The recording side was never a problem on portables.

The Sony R909 has a Line-Out-mode, giving a completely linear frequency response. Important, when playing back into a soundcard. That's, why I would take the R909.

Yes. Slack. Or to be more exact, the header-data on each sector written on the disc. And since you need more sectors on higher datarates, you lose more space. That means, on lower datarates, the relation between data and header improves. That's my guess. Sony states 1GB per disc, let's see, what Windoze reports... PS: An Iomega ZIP100 disk reports 95.6 MBytes free space, so it wouldn't surprise me if a Hi-MD reports a bit more ore less than the one GByte stated.

There should be no difference - Lossless IS lossless. So this point is moot...

Members reported positive experience with them, so I say that you use the forums search to look up these threads, as I don't have the time now to do that. And Minidisco has its own support section here as well, in case something goes wrong.

Definitely. However, being better than the R500 is quite easy, even the old R-37, I have now, is better. From the Service-manual, I knew, which headphone amplifier is used, so I looked up the specifications of that one and the datasheet stated no less than 0.1% distortion at the best. You would think, that isn't much, but the result is a compressed soundstage, that details from the recording place simply get lost, that a big concert hall gets squashed down to a little shack... You will hear the difference, trust me. That includes the recordings, you've made with the R500. These will profit from the digital amp on playback as well as the R500 delivers full quality on recording. On the other paw, the R500 still outperforms any analog cassette recorder on the market...

On old recorders, it was 99, on Hi-MD, I don't know. (Guess: 99 too).

Hmm, after rereading the PDF, a few dislodged Euros fell... All have the group function, the NH900+NH1 allow 20 groups to be programmed into a sequence and/or 64 tracks into a list.

http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic is your friend. .

I hope, we'll see computer drives real soon... There is a point - In fact, there are multiple points: 1.) Smaller media, so it's fits into Subnotebooks, where a normal CD/DVD-drive doesn't fit. 2.) Better protected media - If you accidentially step on it, the disc is save inside its shell, step on a cd and you have fat scratches on it. 3.) Reliability - To this day, not a single MD failed on me, despite having more than 400 discs, some of them nearly ten years old. Even these old suckers play like brand new. On the other paw, I had multiple CDs fail... 4.) Finally a decent replacement for floppy-discs... The speed given in the specs is the physical limit, so it is double speed for writing and quad speed for reading (compared to cd). Personally, I place reliability above speed. See point 4 above. I need atleast two 3 1/2 form factor drives. See point 1 above. Constantly carrying around aditional stuff to keep the data save is a drag... .

Welcome to NetMD... :wacky: Ok seriously, take it back. Standard NetMD cannot upload anything to a computer, not even stuff recorded with the unit itself. With Hi-MD, it changes considerably. In short: 1.) Use it as a datadrive - that means, drag your MP3-files in the explorer onto the Hi-MD - and your documents/pictures and other stuff as well. Doing this, you can transport your MP3-files to work and play and store them on a computer there. But listening on the road is not possible, as Hi-MD players cannot play MP3. 2.) use the Sony-supplied software to transfer the music, then you can listen to it on the road, but it cannot be transferred back to a computer. But as far as I know, it is possible to have User data AND music on one disc at the same time, so my idea would be to have the music in both versions on the same disc until the final mix is done. Or just take two discs with you - one with the MP3s, one with the music in MD-format... 3.) if you record via Line-In/Microphone, that can be uploaded onto a computer and then transferred back to MD. Oh, and the three time Checkout-limit is gone as well. When you take back the NetMD, keep the discs, you can reuse them with a Hi-MD.

I'm already doing this. But 1.) It stays blue after visiting. 2.) The tags doesn't nest properly, when using the color and size dropdowns. Cut & paste galore... 3.) The automatic link conversion would profit as well, if it is preset in the forums CSS-file.

But these work only, because the game-software knows, where the defective sectors are. That's not the case with audio cds, so finding out, if the one visible is real or fake, is nearly impossible... I agree here, as that is not only too much effort, but also reduces the usability.

Hmm, I don't have any information, that Hi-MD is delayed here in Europe. And for the flatness of the backsides, after reviewing the pics in the equipment browser, it seems, that none of them has the bulge known from the R500.

There is no reason, why it shouldn't work. Software in general accesses the cd-drive via driver, not directly. So it doesn't know, if the drive visible is a real one or a nero-image. I expect that one to work as before.

Decreasing the number of groups makes no sense, especially with the longer playing time possible now. I take that pdf with a big grain of salt. So, I just wait and see...

Personal disc memory is a playlist stored in the unit itself. Depending on the number of tracks, the NH900/NH1 can memorize up to 18 discs. Groups allow it to place a number of track into a block and to select that block directly for playback. So you can group tracks together by genre or mood. These Groups are stored ON the disc, so the limitation isn't really a limitation A more detailed explanation is here.

JD, look here: The PDF I interpret this as 20 Groups of 64 tracks each. Then there is the personal disc memory with 500 tracks each... Kurisu, if you somehow lost the file, pull it from there and put it up again.

Ja, 100 km weiter nördlich, in Mönchengladbach. Hmm, Aachen + Uni = RWTH?

Well, it's the name, the image, the design. Think Leica cameras. The japanese Qualia site is here. After some clicking, I found the specs: Clickediclick. Yes, it doesn't even record... But the production of these is quite expensive, as the whole case is machined out of a massive metal block. See here.

How about changing the link-colors? I suggest that links are underlined and set to the color scheme employed as default by most browsers. So it would look like this: Unvisited Link Visited Link Sometimes it is hard to see, if there is a link, so this is much more visible.