aeriyn

*still wants a pink ipod mini* :rasp:

:laugh: Sorry. It is an adjective meaning it is great, love it, works wonderfully, etc. Better than other methods. Or somesuch thing.

The button thingy pwns! I really like the scroll wheel on the NH900. It's a really efficient method of going through menus, give props to iPod for bringing it around, now everyone's making their own version of the clickwheel. :grin:

You seem to be into the whole old-school thing when it comes to unit design. :grin: I think the Hi-MD units are ugly, myself, save for the NH1, which is really sexy looking in my opinion. Don't like the protruding 4-way button though. In my opinion, the sharp units are generally a lot cooler looking than the Sonys. I think my DS8 is teh sex... especially with that flashing blue LED on the unit... very nice touch.

Hehe. However if you wished to transfer these songs back to MD through SonicStage or Simple Burner, you'd have to encode them again, and you'd eat compression artifacts a second time. Even if you recorded them the slow way, it would still compress again and you'd still lose quality. I'd like to know just how much HDD space 200 MDs worth of songs takes up in linear PCM format, even in half-sized monaural mode. :laugh: For a slightly simpler way of retitling your music, if you have SonicStage and a NetMD/Hi-MD unit, just put the MD into the unit, connect to USB, and you should be able to retitle the tracks through SonicStage even if they were recorded via line or optical input. Just my two cents. :happy:

It's definitely okay to use it, but I'm not sure if it's okay to charge it. Why not just get one of those bundles of NiMH AA's with charger? Not that expensive. :happy:

And minus the radio tuner as well. In fact, the radio tuner remote won't fit into any remote jack on a unit without the radio tuner. There are two small plastic tabs on the bottom of the remote plug on the RM-MC34LT which slide into slots on the appropriate units. I bought an NF520D (netmd downloader) for a friend, and the remote would not fit into the remote jack on my old N10. However, the RM-MC33EL worked fine on the NF520D.

They confuse everyone with those pictures. The photos of the NF520D (netmd downloader) also show the RM-MC34LT remote as being backlit, but it's not. I know for a fact; I've owned this unit (bought it for my best friend). What's odd is while the pictures show a backlight, the description text at SonyStyle does not mention one... but on units with a backlit remote, it does state that the remote is backlit. Smells like subtle false advertisement to me.

EX71s are definitely not bad for the price. I've gotten plenty of good use out of my pair. Quite comfortable, too, but since I have an Auvi unit, I'd really like to get Sharp's in-ear phones, the HP-MD33S with the 4-pole connector. Hear they sound pretty good too.

*is a girl* Duh. And if I do get an iPod it'll be a Mini Pink. :rasp:

Sony MDR-EX71 are okay, I found that they work pretty good with Sony portables. If you have an NH900, they should work fine, and they impede low and make that 5mW headphone amp not seem so underpowered. However, EX71s have suppressed midrange frequency which makes it sound like they have more bass. Shure makes some really nice earphones and not all of them are terribly expensive. Check out the E2c's; I'm considering them myself. Although, Shure 'phones (and most other really good ones) don't have the short cord for convenience with remotes. Personally I don't think it's a big deal to deal with a whole lotta cord if you dress it properly.

:grin: I must admit that I'm warming to the iPod's design after actually having used the device. It's very minimalist but remains powerfully flexible. Although, I'd appreciate it greatly if Apple would release the big pods in the colors that the mini is in. Silver iPod = teh sex. I like the industrial, sleek, metallic looks in my things. You should see the case my PC is in (all silver and shiny with plexiglas and blue light). iPod somewhat looks like a toy, or a mutated Game Boy, to me. I really, really love the way the Sony MZ-N10 looks (although that's about all I like about it). It's so very cold-life looking. Too bad it doesn't sound nearly as good as it looks. :whatever: Now this... this is a sexy looking digital audio player. Probably sounds like shit, though. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/aeri...d120philips.jpg If anyone here has this and knows if it's worth anything other than to look at and drool over, let me know. :grin: Edit: 5mW+5mW headphone amp... ewwwwwwww.

The Nomad Zen series can't record. They're just players like iPod. In fact, the Zen Touch is sort of like an iPod clone. But prettier. And a bit thicker. :whatever:

It's out. You can buy it at Creative's website for $269US, but I've seen it at Best Buy and such around Birmingham.

Wierd...

The N1 uses the NiMH gumstick battery, so... it will indeed drain both the AA and the NiMH at the same time. Only the Sony MD units with Li-Ion batteries drain the AA first and then the rechargeable.

Yeah, you can store data files on Hi-MD units. It functions just like a hot-swappable USB hard drive. Except, it really sucks for that. Writing magneto-optical discs is slow. It would be better for you, and much cheaper, to just use CD-R. :rasp:

Hi there. Welcome to the MDCF. :happy: In the past there have been a few MD "drives." There are MD Data drives, which used MD Data discs, but those aren't for music. If you want to transfer the music you recorded with your R700 to your PC without having to do the digital to analog conversion and then back again, you should look into an MD deck with an optical out to run into a sound card with SPDIF inputs. That way you can get a true digital record. Transferring music from your PC to MD, you don't even need the deck since your MD recorder has an optical line-in. Use a sound card with SPDIF optical out (TOSlink) with the optical cable that came with your R700. Conversely, you could use one of those dongles like the Xitel or the M-Audio Transit, which are USB-connectable and might be less expensive than a sound card with optical i/o.

In my old N10, the manual listed it as being Classical1, Classical2 and Classical3. Whatever that means...

They are standard 20gb, but the HDD can be replaced with any size, although the unit's firmware limits the number of tracks to 16,000. But... it's so huge. :whatever: NJB3 I'd never use for listening. It's as big as a PCDP and a whole lot heavier. For listening pleasure, iPod pwns the NJB3. I don't know about the new Nomads (Zen Touch, which is really sexy looking) although they're still bulky compared to the barely-over-a-half-inch-thick iPod.

According to Audiocubes it is (3mW+3mW headphone amp), but since they had a few other errors in their descriptions, this may likewise be just a misprint.

Audiocubes sells the RM-MC40ELK remote for just under 80 dollars US.

It's the same Melody Timer that Sony has installed in most of their high-end MD units. Makes some type of sound after a set number of minutes from 1 to 99.

Any audio player with a digital amp (Sony HD, Sharp Auvi 1-bit, etc.) doesn't actually even have a true line-out, since the signal has been messed around with by the digital amp. Since a line output signal is supposed to be unequalized and un-screwed with, none of these devices really have a line-out that could compare to a unit lacking the digital amp, such as the previous Sony NetMD models, and the pre-Auvi Sharps. Trying to compare the NH1's "line-out" (which isn't really intended for use as such) to an iPod line output is a no-brainer; of course the iPod (or the NJB3, or older MD units without a digital amp) will be better since it's a flat signal identical to the recorded signal. As such, I would not use my DS8 to play a source that I recorded to PC as it is equipped with a digital amp.

Actually, I doubt they bothered because of the sheer space on a Hi-MD, and due to the fact that most braindead consumers would use Hi-LP as the program suggests, or try to be cute and use 48kbit/sec ATRAC3+. However, you can fit seven hours of music on one Hi-MD in Hi-SP. That's almost too much for a disc-based audio player. I like having one or two albums per disc, because when I go to change albums, I put in a new disc. Operation complete. I don't have to spend years flipping through group after group until I find the right one. (iPod nonwithstanding; its navigation system is a wonder to behold.) Also, since Hi-MD reformats standard 80-minute MiniDiscs to 305mb, you can still put 2 hours and 15 minutes of Hi-SP audio on there; almost as much as you could with LP2 on the old 170mb format. I'm not too thrilled with SonicStage's lack of bitrate choices, but since I always use the higher bitrates if possible, usually I go with the lowest one that sounds transparent to me (and I'm not real picky about artifacts when listening on my decidedly substandard reproduction equipment, 'phones and cheap speakers). With MD that was LP2, with Hi-MD it's Hi-SP since I just can't do Hi-LP at all. :whatever: