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  3. A discernable difference in the various Sonicstage versions?

    in Technical, Tips, and Tricks

    Posted

    According to SonicStage FAQs on the Sony support site, when you make a recording in SS, Type-S is disabled.

    I know that Type-S is a decoding thing, but maybe something in the Atrac file says to the MD Player, do not use Type S during playback as this originated from SonicStage.

    This could account for a lot of the difference in playback quality.

    The R900 does not have Type-S decoding DSP, however, so any LP2 tracks played back on the R900 (or recorded off the R900 via analog) would likewise not gain the benefits.

  4. A discernable difference in the various Sonicstage versions?

    in Technical, Tips, and Tricks

    Posted

    I think the real question, the one I want answered after all is, "Is there a difference between the MDLP encoder period/at all?"

    Sony never released version numbers for ATRAC3 like they did with ATRAC. Clearly, ATRAC has improved over time--I can definitely tell the difference between what my brother recorded with my R30 (ATRAC 4) and what was recorded with my R900 (ATRAC 4.5), and I can tell to a much lesser degree the difference between recordings from my R900 and those I made during the brief time I had my N10 (ATRAC 4.5R), but where is the proof that MDLP has improved at all from the R900 days?

    "Type-S" is the decoding DSP as someone so eloquently pointed out to me, and doesn't affect recordings made in MDLP mode.

    So, does "new" MDLP unit recordings/"new" SonicStage rips in LP2 actually sound any better than the recordings made with an R900/R700?

    If my R900 wasn't dead, I would ABX this and let everyone know, but since it is dead and my N505 is not here yet... sou ne...

  7. What Hi-md is right for me?

    in Minidisc

    Posted

    Moving to correct forum...

    I don't actually recommend the NH600D purely because it is unable to obtain audio from any other source than SonicStage. That may be all you want now, but what about later? You might find that you like to record things live. :happy:

    NH700 is a lot like the 600, but it has more intuitive controls, has more inputs (optical/line, microphone as well as USB) and it's a little more attractive. Also it uses AA batteries rather than gumsticks or Li-Ions.

    Check it out.

  15. Battery charging!

    in Minidisc

    Posted

    Nickel Metal-Hydride batteries are not "smart" batteries like Lithium-Ions are. They charge for a specified amount of time as determined by the device charging them (either a standalone battery charger or an MD unit itself). The unit actually doesn't "know" when the battery is fully charged. This is why it's bad to put a NiMH in the charger when it's not completely drained or mostly drained; the battery becomes slightly overcharged and a memory effect shows up.

  16. R.I.P. - Cori's R900

    in The Loft

    Posted

    :sad:  :sad:  very sorry about that... cheer up, your new pink miniIpod baby is on its way  :happy:

    Not any time soon. unsure.gif

    With this ominous debt I have, and my general all around lack of money, I'm going to need to find a new recorder pronto or be forced to listen to the same music over and over again. :sleep:

  18. Have a Hi-MD question that doesn't need a thread? [part III]

    in Minidisc

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    Hope this isnt too far off topic!?  Got an NH1 - very pleased etc. BUT.... am very keen on the Sony hard drive player NW-HD1 too.  My question is this. Some US stockists/reviews mention a remote. Most euro stockists/review say no remote. The manual I downloaded shows the socket(s) - just same as on my NH1 but no mention of any remote. Can anyone confirm one way or another please.  I understand a neck lanyard can be used with it so I would actually use it with just a short cable set of earbuds and control everything via the player. But all this "provision" for a remote has confused me!!  ( Silly question - I dont suppose my NH1 remote (or even my old N1 remote) would work with the HD1?? )

    The Japanese NW-HD1 comes supplied with an RM-MC33ELK. I do not see any reason why MD remotes would not work with it, although I'm not sure about the full functionality of the 40ELK, however.

  19. Questions/Comments for Marc's uploading utility.

    in Hi-MD Renderer Forum

    Posted

    I have just come back, after buying a cable from Sony, that you plug into your Headphone line Out and PC Mic socket, and then you can use software to record the recordings off your MD.

    You know that this, being an analog method of recording, will introduce further digital-to-analog conversion and resampling artifacts into your transferred tracks?

    What you are trying to do can be done losslessly (without the icky artifacts) via USB, if you read this thread.

  20. R.I.P. - Cori's R900

    in The Loft

    Posted

    The day before the hurricane hit, I noticed something about my R900. It had recently been acting up... refusing to charge my gumsticks (I had been using it to charge the batteries for both the R900 and the DS8) and occasionally turning itself off.

    Well, I was recording a disc and I had just finished writing TOC... and when I removed the disc and powered it off, the unit wouldn't turn back on. The battery was only half drained, my DS8 told me.

    With the AC adapter in, the unit would not power on. Nothing I did, neither a fresh gumstick, an AA and a gumstick or the AC adapter, would make this unit come back to life.

    I fiddled with it a bit, popped it open to see if I could locate any damage, but I couldn't see any. The battery connections were still okay, but the unit wouldn't function at all. I even gave it and the service manual to an electronics guru that I know for a few hours. It was he who declared my R900 dead on September 15, 2004 at 4:30 pm.

    So I lay thee to rest, faithful R900. May you rest in peace.

    Cori's R900 (April 24, 2001 - September 15, 2004)

    *sob*

  21. Hurricane Ivan

    in The Loft

    Posted

    I'm okay...

    ... I just don't have any fucking power. mad.gif

    Going on 48 hours without juice now. They better fix it soon, or Alabama Power is going to have to hold the phone three feet away from their ears and STILL be able to hear me. :grin:

  22. Your 100% Non-BS opinion as a Hi-MD buyer.

    in Minidisc

    Posted

    When Sony or hackers finally solve the upload dilemma so that field MD recordings become exportable into wav/mp3, Hi-MD will become a bootlegger's dream come true. I predict big things for it

    You can do the same thing with CF recorders, only a lot easier and in a universal format. If bootleggers really want to bootleg something, they are going to do it, regardless of what stupid DRM measures Sony uses.

    It's my opinion that copyright protection on software and music is pointless, because these companies spend millions of dollars (causing the product to cost even more to us, the consumer who actually BUYS it) protecting a software that a thirty year old "l33t h4x0r" living in his mother's basement will crack in a few afternoons.

  23. downloaded MP3, copyright, sonicstage, realy confused!!!!!!

    in Minidisc

    Posted

    You say "Downloaded off the 'net"

    Does this mean you downloaded them from legal music sites? Or did you download them from a P2P program?

    Well I guess since they are Mp3 you should not have a problem, but I have known a Mp3 to not transfer in sonicstage due to copyright problems.

    Most of the time that SonicStage has given me copyright errors with MP3 the errors were actually due to the fact that the MPEG header did not start at 0 bytes rather than the fact that they were actually protected files (which they were not). Decoding to .wav always fixed this and enabled me to encode the tracks into ATRAC.

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