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kurisu wrote: Thanks folks -I must admit that I haven't got round to trying the optical link between my CD player and MD deck - another comparison that I need to make (I record off my turntable too hence the preference for analogue input at present). At least digital to digital would preserve track marks - but, looks like I'm stuck with realtime whichever way that I go about it! PS I didn't think the check in check out scenario would be too much of a problem until I wanted to wipe an MD to use for something else and the deck wouldn't let me. :whatever:

high capacity for quality add a bit of flexibility; data storage and back up functionality - my dream portable multimedia device!

Just a thought.... Correct me if I'm wrong but one of the reasons that MD and HiMD have been hobbled as a truly flexible format for free transfer of music is to do with internal restrictions imposed by Sony to satisfy its music publishing arm. Perhaps Blue ray DVD could offer the corp a way out? As it is a new technology it may not have the same restrictions built in (though I should imagine they probably already thought this one through). A 48GB interchangeable and rewritable media format would blow fixed hard drive players out of the water - get the transfer speeds to a decent rate (and allow unrestricted, two-way transfer BTW) and perhaps develop dedicated portable music, video or data recorder players (or combinations of these). The only thing is that MD would be effectively become a redundant

This my first post so be gentle: I have a Sony MDS JE780 deck and a trusty MZ-R900 portable. I only recently got around to playing around with the Net MD function on the deck hoping to benefit from quick loading of compilations to MD for portable listening. I tend to stick to LP2 as I find that recordings made at this compression level give a good compromise between quantity and quality. But, through my HiFi a real time analogue recording at LP2 gives far better results than a Net MD recording at the same level - in fact the digital copy is very disappointing in the sound quality dept. I'm assuming that it comes down to components: though I don't have a high-end HiFi as such the components are going to be of a better audiophile quality than the lap top that I used for the experimental upload. Is there any reason why there should be such a disparity in sound quality and, can I expect more out of my Net MD set up or am I going to have to stick to the inconvenience of realtime analogue recording?