Granville

They are called Ferrite Chokes. They protect cables such as USB from Electromagnetic Interference or EMI. Make sure you clamp them to your PC connector if they are not already - but they are probably spares. I tried one on my microphone cable in a mad moment of experimentation. Here's a really boring article on them: :cool: http://www.broadband-pbimedia.com/ct/archi...599/ct0599l.htm G.

Perhaps this may be of use to people wanting another way to get access to their own recordings from the MZ-NH1. I bought the MZ-NH1 for recording PCM quality (live) sound instead of using my camcorder's mic. What a struggle it has been to get access to manipulate my own DIGITAL data. I am in shock after spending all that cash and then realising I might need to use an analogue cable method to get recordings uploaded...! So, the link below shows a nifty idea and seems to get around the protection issue - If it doesn't work there are other ideas I saw there where people have been fiddling about by renaming .oma to .wma and using Win Media Player 9 to play the files. Interesting stuff. Enjoy. :wacky: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php...&highlight=.oma Granville.