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Hi, I'm a new MZ-NH700 owner (teamed with an ECM-MS907 mic) and I'm hoping to do some live music instrument recordings, both practice and concert. The PCM feature of Hi-MD interests me most... 1) If I record a session in PCM and use the Sony WAV converter to create a WAV on my PC, will the WAV audio data itself be essentially identical to what was on the PCM recording in Hi-MD? 2) Are there any good Linux utilities that can download from a Hi-MD unit? It pains me to boot into Windows each time to use SonicStage. :-| I'm not really interested in music library management or titling or anything like that; I just want to get the audio data off the portable and onto my PC so I can manipulate it. Many thanks!