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Actually, what I dislike of all Hi-MD is the fact that there is a single button for play, back, forward, volume up and down. It's doomed to break, it seems. I'm not sure what you mean about the stiffness of the rotary dial of the NH700? A reason I wasn't going for the NH900 is it's looks here. Just check on sonystyle Canada, and you'll understand what I mean. It's bicolor here too, but with gold (or is that platinum). Also, the problem I have with both NH900 and NH1 is the battery. With the NH900 I have to carry the external case, with NH1 I don't even have the choice. Since I record lectures, I need a lot of power, and always available. Failure of power isn't a perspertive I like to imagine. So the possibility to use AA and NH700 and 800 is interesting, and since the 800 just has a radio more and a digital remote (which it's weird, but I don't care that about since I'm used to looking to my MZ-N707 for information, it's dial wasn't digital eitheir). I have to leave now, I'm goind to buy a K23 VAIO notebook for the beginning of my Pharmacy studies. It's not the most expensive (well, it's actually the least...), but the screen is nice and big, and the keyboard confortable. That's going to make a big hole in my Hi-MD budget... Guess I'll wait a little. The NH1 isn't out here anyway, for another week. Argggh.
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Hi bhangraman and Seroka2! Thank you so much for your replies, this was the kind of answer I needed. Since Sony has a return policy, I think that when the NH1 comes out, I'll buy both a NH700 and a NH1, and return the one I don't like. If there isn't a difference in sound, then I think that I will return the NH1, because it's a lot more expensive and apart from the oh-so-cool design and the magnesium exterior (bites her tongue), I'm trying to convince myself that the cool factor isn't worth that much money. Right? Take care everyone, and I'll surely come back for a feedback! :grin:
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Hi! When I said "incompatible" with the E3cs, I meant sound wise (highs that hurt ears, for example), not technically. Maybe in French it made more sense, sorry. Bhangraman: What do you mean by "I would not read anything into the 'HD Digital Amp' moniker."? When I read about the difference between lower end Hi-MD and higher end Hi-MD, I had understood people were saying that the higher end were supposed to sound better because of the HD digital amp. Do you think the MZ-NH700 would sound better since it doesn't use the HD digital amp? Or do you still think the NH1 is better, even if it has its issues? Thank you! :happy:
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Hi again! I wanted to thank you for the information you have provided me, but my question was more oriented on if the Hi-MD players themselves (especially the NH1, but also the cheaper models like the 700) produce a sound of good quality, compared to the sound my actual player, MZ-N707, delivers. I'm using E3c headphones, and I was worried that the NH1 (with it's HD digital amp) was incompatible with these headphones, based on the first message of this tread. Can anyone comment on that? Now I know which compression to use, though. :smile:
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Hi! First things first, I'm a she. I know it doesn't matter so much, but I'm not sure what I think about being called he. :rasp: If you read my 1st post again, you will notice that I say that while recording lectures, I don't mind the SQ. BUT I think that spending 300$ canadian on headphones (E3cs) qualities me as someone who would like to achieve a better than average SQ. The question is: when listening to MUSIC (I listen to many kinds of music: Radiohead, Grandaddy, Sigur Ros, Massive Attack, Portishead, Bjork...), because I use my MD player BOTH for recording lectures and listening to music, I want to know what were the original issues (those that started the post) with Hi-MD players, esp. the higher end Hi-MD players which I am considering to buy. So, when listening to music taken from a CD and transfered on a Hi-MD media, will the sound quality with Hi-SP (you say that is equal to LP in sound quality?) be AS GOOD or BETTER than the one I am already getting? The first person who wrote in this tread was using the same headphones that I have - E3cs - with a MZNH1 and was saying that the highs were tinny (hurting his ears) and that he had to turn them down with the EQ. I think he also had an issue with the bass, I don't remember what exactly. He or someone who wrote after that said something about the HD digital amp (which I'm not sound I understand how it works, even after reading info from a link on this forum) or that the digital amp didn't like the headphones. If I'm about to spend this much money on a MD player, I like to know what to expect beforehand, esp. when some people seem to have issues with things that are important for me, and here that is SQ. Thank you, and I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough the first time to make myself understood. I just don't want to make a big mistake, giving all my hard spent money to Sony if their new product isn't worth the hype it's getting from all directions.
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Hi! I'm at University of Montreal. Here, a lot of people record lectures with different media. (We are very few with MD players though.) Actually, I usually ask teachers permission to record and I have yet to meet one who refused. As for uploading from MD players to PC, there are so many different frustrating issues with this that I will not even start on the subject. I do not want to diverge from the original subject, i.e. sound quality of the Sony hi-md players. Can anyone help me based on my previous message? Thanks! :smile:
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Hi! This is my first post in this forum. :grin: I've read about all the messages of the 2 Hi-MD general questions treads (that's a lot of pages!). First, I want to apologize for the occasionnal bad English, because I'm French. Lately, I bought myself a pair of Shure E3c headphones, which I like very much for both the sound and the sound isolation. They were a little expensive, but I wanted to take a step towards better sound and be able to listen to my class lectures (I'm a University student) during my daily 3 hours in mass transportation. The bass, while not amplified like most headphones (especially the other Sony I used before), is detailled and true-to-life. The mid and high ends are very nice too. As I just mentionned, I record my classes so I need a mic jack in my MD player. I currently own a Sony MZ-N707 which does the job really well. However, I just finished my Microbiology studies and will start Pharmacy next semester. For the following 4 years, I will have an average of 6-7 classes per semester. That means a lot of minidiscs! Thus, I was considering the Hi-MDs for their storage capacity (I could have only a disc for each classes). I don't really mind the sound quality when I listen to classes, but I don't want the SQ to be less good than the one I already have with my MZ-N707. That's why I am a little worried after reading this tread (well, part of it, because I got lost somewhere with all the technical vocabulary - while I like new tech toys, I'm not much of a technical person myself). Do you think any of the Hi-MDs out there will sound as good, or hopefully surpass my MZ-N707? I was considering either the 700, the 900 or the NH1 (but for this last one, I'm worried about the battery duration, because there is not external AA and I would be VERY pissed off to miss part of the class due to the battery dying while recording). Recording usually takes a lot of juice, but that's a bummer, because even myself can't resist the cool factor... :love: Can someone help me clear things out?