Sparky191

You connect the nw-hd5 to the deck or amp? The Deck needs an Amp no? I had my eye on a cheap MDS-JB930

Me? Sharp SR70/Sony G750/MZ-NH700. Only really use the HiMD though, and mainly for recording from other sources. Phones is a mixture, MX500/Pana JE50/Some older full sized Senns dunno the number. Usually play back my FLAC/MP3's from Zen Micro/Shuffle through an old but high end Sony Midi system. Why?

I didn't like LP2 on a portable. Though it wasn't unlistenable. I looked up the spec on that pro deck. But what in simple terms is the big advantage of the pro tec. Seemed to me the main advantage was for editing if you were doing some serious recording. Overkill for most home recording.

But even on a deck with NetMD you can can't transfer tracks to real SP from the computer can you? SP can only be achieved in realtime? BTW sweet looking set up all in silver.

I'm trying to source a cheap and speakers at the moment. Lot of very old gear out there. Some nice MD decks for cheap though.

What amp and speakers are you using with it.

I was wondering how many people are still using their MD decks (as opposed to a portable). I only ever had portables and often see MD decks coming up quite cheaply. Wondering is it worth picking one up cheap? Something like a MDS-JB930 for example.

Whats wrong with it becoming like mexico, or that people use other languages other than english? Or as close to english as you get in US. Unless you are a native American indian theres an immigrant in your family somewhere. I'm not in the US, but Ireland and we are flooded by immigrants illegal and legal. We can't really complain though as we exported people all over the world in the past. Once theres a disparity in wealth/living conditions or conflict between two places, you will always get movement of people. If you want a serious discussion on the issue, you should break down the pros and cons of illegal immigration. I don't get the point of your "have you ever used" list. You could use a similar argument about drugs, oil, slave labour products that people use, without consideration of the issues there consumption causes either.

Just so you know. All those comments about the Shuffle are incorrect. At least I don't have those problems with mine. The Shuffle has probably the best SQ of nearly all MP3 players, out of the box. Its well regarded on Head-Fi. I prefer its SQ to my own MH-700 HiMD, and my older MD's aswell. The lack of a screen is a niggle, but its not needed for what its designed for. DH10P is a curious device. For me the main strength of MD/HiMD has always primarily been recording. So I don't get the DH10P. Though it looks like a nice gadget, I think I'd prefer the RH1.

In both instances you are listening to the same ATRAC3plus "compression". You're not avoiding that. I suggest you do a blind listening test and see if you can actually hear a difference. If theres any difference it will be from transcoding and I suspect what you hearing is a narrower dynamic range where you're losing detail in the high frequencies and across the spectrum generally. I reckon you get the same effect by just encoding in a low atrac bitrate to begin with. Or just using some very bassy headphones. What you seem to like is what everyone else is trying to avoid. LOL. I guess if your happy with it, stick to it. I wonder though if you buy better headphones in the future will your opinion change.

Theres a big difference between ear buds and "in ear" canal earphones. The Sennheiser CX 300 are low end canal phones, but they should should ok. If they sounded "ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH. No bass at all and a very poor sound" then you either had a faulty pair or you didn't get a good seal/fit with them. Lack of bass is a sure sign of a bad seal with canal phones. No point complaining about the SQ if you are listening to rubbish ear phones. I suggest you head over the headphone section of Head-Fi and read some comments/reviews on earphones and pick up something bassy. Though most people on Head-Fi are not major bassheads. I haven't heard a RH10 but if its like my Sony MD they are not bass heavy. Definately nothing like my Sharp. However that said I prefer an accurate sound over the inaccurate bass saturated sound that seems to be popular at the moment. Your missing out on half the music. No point blowing 200-400 on a player if you are using $10 ear phones. Buy at least a PX100/MX500 at the very least. Then move to better earphones as your budget allows. Ask around your friends and see what they have.

Does this model have a line in and remote connection?

Thanks for the review. It certainly looks like a fantastic unit. Not perfect, but lots of improvements in many areas. Well done to Sony for listening. I would like one myself. Love the Styling.

LOL

There is one for other Sony Devices. Just not HiMD.

They need to make it a UMS fiiletree drag and drop for music aswell as data. Then you'd need no software at all and it would work across Mac/Unix and PC. You can argue the DRM issue for music downloads. But I reckon only a tiny fraction of Sonys MP3 device buyers use an online store to buy music. To be honest they should be promoting CD's as a better medium than low bitrate music downloads.

Well it works ok. But personally I find it limited, and its not what I'd call slick. I prefer MediaMonkey to manage my (non Atrac) files. I only use 3.4 to trasnfer my recordings etc.

I've never had a problem with it either. But I've only ever used it with HiMD and versions 3.0 and upwards. Currently on 3.4 and no problems.

Its for fast transfer from the library to a portable. But I'm sure your aware of that in SS since theres been a lot of discussion of the flaw/bug in ATRAC Lossless format on the forums already. ATRAC Lossless format is fine if you are going to convert back to WAV or if you are only going to use the specifc compressed format within the Lossless format. If you are going to use any other format or bitrate ATRAC Lossless is not useful in that scenerio. Compare that to FLAC. You can convert that directly to almost all open formats. Proprietary formats obviously are an exception to that.

I think his point was about the transcoding. 352 ATRAC lossless contains two files. 1) ATRAC lossess 2) 352kps ATRAC3+ Which when you transfer from SS to HiMD... Choosing 352 ATRAC lossless to 352kps gives you the 352kps ATRAC3+ on the HiMD (note no re-encoding or transcoding) Choosing 352 ATRAC lossless to 256kps transcodes the 352kps (not the lossless part) to 256kps. (Worse quality than straight rip to 256kps from the original source) I have no idea what happens if you convert from ATRAC lossless to WAV. Does it use the Lossless part or the 352kps part?

I agree if you name files well, lack of tagging isn't that much of an issue. Its just more work though. If it was me and I was using the HiMD as my main player I think I'd just keep a library of HiSP tracks. You already have your lossless library in the form of your orignal CD's. Alternatively buy a huge HD or make a raid array of a few of them together in an external drive box. Then store everything as WAV on that. Only importing them to SS as you need them. Not sure if that gives you gapless though.

I'm not interesred in gapless myself, but I'm curious. Are they gapless if you encode ATRAC from WAVs?

Theres a few downsides IMO. No tags when you go via WAV. (yes can be recreated) You always have to reconvert to use a different player. You can only convert to WAV or 353kps If SS gets corrupt you risk losing your library. (has happened to others) Mind you its not a bad plan if you are decided on Sony only players. Personally I'm not using Sony players. (except to record) So I'm using FLAC at the moment. Using MediaMonkey I can reconvert on the fly to whatever bitrate I want to either my Zen or iPod Shuffle. Previously I was only using 192-320kps CBR Lame MP3 files.

Would't it do the A/D > D/A process twice? On the recorder then on the deck? On Head-Fi a few people have taked about using a MD as preamp like that. I tried it just for listening and didn't think the difference in SQ was worth the effort. For listening. Maybe for recording or line volume it would be.

I can understand you might prefer to handle the physical disc instead of go to a computer ok fair enough. But I prefer the SQ of the iPod Shuffle, Zen Micro to my HiMD or the older MD units I have. Its one of the reasons I only use my HiMD to record.