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  2. I should get my 800 by Friday. I will post pics and sound quality reports... more to come. I ordered it 5/4 from Amazon, and it finally shipped yesterday, 7/27! $238, free shipping.
  3. @Michi HDD recorders, even the latest and greatest, would appear to be SEVERELY limited, when it comes to recording live music. All you can get is 320 kbps??? That is HORRIBLE, compared to the HI-MD units' ability to record in PCM-WAV format (~1380 kbps, which I found here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...iocompare.aspx). @ Everyone else: Quit acting like you need to be technically savvy to hook up your spankin' new HI-MD to your PC and record your PCM-quality .wav in real-time to the PC! Here's how the "technically savvy" do it: 1. Go to RadioShaq (or the Australian equivalent, michi), buy yourself a 1/8" stereo mini-jack (male) to 1/8" stereo mini-jack (male) cable for $6, or spend more for a high quality cable. 2. Plug one end into your HI-MD headphone-out jack, and the other end to the line-in jack on your PC soundcard 3. Press play on your HI-MD, and click record on your favorite .wav editing software (I prefer Cool Edit Pro). Mess around with the line-in recording level (in Windows OS: double click your little volume icon in the system tray, down there by your clock, you'll figure it out) so that you don't get any "clipping". Voila! You now have a .wav file of your superb-sounding, PCM-WAV quality recording that you can edit to your little heart's desire and BURN TO CD-R to share with your friends. Now, that wasn't so hard, was it? I've made many KIND sounding recordings (and bootlegs of live shows) using my old MZR-700 in it's best sound quality, and I am literally thrilled to hear how good my recordings will surely sound when made in PCM-WAV format! You all should be, too. I know, I know! This method results in an unnecessary digital to analog conversion, but come on people, don't blame Sony for keeping their heads above legal waters. Additionally, as one person pointed out Sony makes more money on intellectual property (i.e. content) than they do by selling electronics at a relatively low mark-up. Happy bootlegging, people.
  4. MP3 QUALITY IS HORRIBLE compared to ATRAC, which of course is also LOSSY compression. Sony may suck in terms of prohibiting us from making digital copies, but they got it right with ATRAC, folks, at least in terms of sound quality. I am continually amazed at all the mistakes I see on here... people have all these strong opinions and yet they are based in bullsh*t, not fact. I wish the mp3 format had never been invented, it sounds that horrible (at least when played back at bitrates of 128 kb/s or less). On the other hand ATRAC, of course, is doomed as well since compression is no longer necessary. GBs are cheap, so why bother to compress? Notice that PCM-WAV quality recording is now available on the new hi-md portables. Can you say, LOSSLESS, portable, sneaky recordings of live concerts? I can, and will offer up some nice boots for trade once I receive my MZNHF800 this month!
  5. I called Sony's 800# for detailed product info, and was told that the hi-md model mznhf800 will record in PCM quality from the analog input, so no worries, mic recording is possible in the highest sound quality mode, a.k.a. PCM WAV.
  6. @thesurgeon: The following method obviously undergoes unnecessary digital-analogue-digital conversion, but is easy and sound quality is not compromised too much: 1. Try plugging one end of your 1/8" stereo minijack (male to male) cable into the headphone out of your MD player, and the other end into the line-in on your PCs soundcard. Play your recording at full volume (with all sound effects turned off) and adjust recording volume using Windows' built-in volume control. Record to your favorite sound editing software, I prefer Cool Edit Pro. That way, you can save your recording in any format you like. To keep everything digital, this is the only method I've come across: 2. Buy a stand-alone MD deck that has digital outs, using your coax digital cable, or optical cable (depending on your MD deck digital-out type) record to a stand-alone CD-recorder that has the requisite digital inputs(one of those philips two-deck numbers works for me). Again, turn off all sound effects on your MD deck when playing your recording. The pain in the ass associated with these methods makes me despise Sony for disabling digital out capability via the USB connection. Sony should at the least include an optical out on their portables... Hopefully the data storage potential of the hi-md units will allow some creative owners to circumvent this lameness.
  7. Forgive my rant, but after drudging through 11 pages of b.s. I had to comment: You CANNOT yet purchase a hi-md player/recorder!!! Try in July. No one, except a few select Dutch and Japanese electronics reviewers/testers, etc. actually possesses one of these hi-md units, yet! With that in mind, don't you realize how assinine/too lazy or stupid to read/ many of you seem when you ask if the following are possible? 1. Can you download PCM quality recordings (or, for that matter, any ATRAC music) from hi-md units directly to your PC via USB cable, and perform editing in apps like Cooledit, Cakewalk, etc and listen to the recordings? my $0.02: I've read a lot about hi-md player/recorders, and I'll bet any one of you dorks $100 that Sony does NOT allow this, but NO ONE KNOWS YET so QUIT ASKING and wasting forum users' time! This feature would allow people to steal others' CD collections, so of course will be prohibited! 2. Can I transfer .wav / .hma, etc files directly from PC to hi-md using the data storage capibility and then playback either on the hi-md or by transferring the data to another PC? - again, this is unknown until we got our greedy little hands on these badboys. 3. When can I buy myself a hi-md player? - haven't you learned from the release date change from April to July that perhaps demand has exceeded Sony's initial supply of hi-md units? Amazon told me to expect mine around the middle of July, but I'll believe that when I open my mailbox. BTW - Amazon just dropped prices on hi-md players. (You'd have to add it to your Cart to view the price)
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