greenmachine

How about a "What are your all-time favorite movies?' thread?

They're backwards compatible in reading, but can't write the old modes.

I can see only four options: 1) getting a soundcard with line-in for an analog transfer 2) getting a md deck with optical out and a soundcard with optical in for a digital transfer (expensive) 3) copy to any additionaly available recorder (cassette, DAT, whatever) and copying back to MD 4) doing a direct analog transfer between two MD units (headphone/line out to line in) Volta is right, the total recorder method won't work. In any way, you'll loose sound quality.

A reply to someone messing with the service mode: You're so contradictory.

Only HiMD machines can upload, Net-MD can't. You could either use the digital Total Recorder or the analog headphone-out to soundcard line-in realtime method. Some info can be found here: http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=7070

Wait a minute, i remember having exactly the same problem once when filling up a disc completely (and propably some editing) with my MDS-JE500. It was all messed up and i couldn't help much but to erase the content. After that everything worked fine again. The cause must be filling up the disc completely. After that i always left at least a few seconds free space and didn't have troubles anymore. Can't help you to recover the disc though, sorry.

Don't you get handling noises with this setup when clothes rub against the windscreens?

What you need is a mono to stereo adaptor if your microphone sends out a signal only to one channel (usually the left). Such adapter won't be a replacement for a stereo mic, but sends the mono signal to both channels equally. There must be some info somwhere around here for such an adaptor, i just don't remember where. If you plan to record from a distance, a real stereo mic is the way to go for more realistic results.

For me, HRTF is the way to go for a realistic distant recording, which is impossible with one-point (Sony) microphones.

Did you try to format/erase the disc or use a different disc? The TOC could be damaged for some reason.

What does yours look like? I'm always interested in different ideas.

There are nh600s with or without line-in, but all nh700s have mic- and line-inputs afaik.

The Innocence Mission - Glow

In Europe.

1GB HiMDs can only be used in HiMD mode, while standard 60/74/80min MDs can be used either in MD or HiMD mode. Recordings in MD mode (SP/LP2/LP4/MONO) can't be uploaded. In HiMD mode you can choose between PCM (1411 kbps, uncompressed, best quality), HiSP (256 kbps, light compression, good quality) and HiLP (64 kbps, high compression, low quality). Format/erase the disc after choosing HiMD mode to access it. Recordings in all three modes can be uploaded but are incompatible with older, non HiMD equipment. Because of the reformatting, you can fit almost twice the data onto the disc. Instead of 320min in LP4 you'll get 600min in HiLP - instead of 80min in SP you'll get 140min in HiSP mode onto one standard 80min disc at comparable quality.

http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showt...indpost&p=70127

What i wanted to say is that i don't see any reason for an upgrade considering your non-demanding usage.

Seems like a CPU in the 300-600 Mhz range would fit your needs as long as it has a quiet cooling, at least 256 MB RAM (for photo editing) and a good soundcard. The slower the CPU, the less heat it will produce. the less heat, the less cooling is required. The less cooling, the less fan noise (at least with the conventional fan method). But seriously, i don't see any reason for you to upgrade, except maybe to a quieter cooling if the noise annoys you. A better (not necessarily the currently best) graphics card, which can be had cheap as well, could also improve the performance for graphical applications, but seems like you wouldn't even need it.

Windscreens - useful if the speaker has a heavy breathing or you're recording outside.

It's propably not worth the hassle, Sony have continuously refined their circuits over the years and reached a point of excellence, even in portable devices. I've never been disappointed with the quality of my recordings from analog sources and i'd consider my demands to be rather high.

Except for close micing you'd better forget mono microphones at all. If directly plugged into the recorder, you'll also record all the recorder's motor noises.

Unexperienced users are not supposed to enter the service mode at all. Getting malfunctions from randomly messing with settings doesn't make Sony products bad.

Thank you, but i guess people want to use an attenuator instead of a battery box, which is theoretically a bad idea but seems to work to a certain degree. There's no real use for an attenuator - battery box combo if you have mic- and line inputs on the recorder, you can use the mics with a battery box directly to line-in instead of attenuating the signal and preamplifying again.

Don't even try to use a battery with more than three times the voltage of NiMH/NiCD (3.8/1.2V) unless you want to get rid of your unit.

Frequency responses below 20 or above 20000 Hz are - if accurate at all - not of importance since the human hearing struggles to perceive such frequencies anyway. You should pay more attention to what's happening in between the lower and upper limit for an involving experience. Although most playback devices usually have no problems reproducing the whole spectrum more or less linearly, it looks much different with the weakest link of the audio chain - headphones and loudspeakers. Extended frequency responses never tell you the whole truth and are by no means a guarantee for accurate reproduction.