grimleyj

Anyone know if the RH-10 ROM can be flashed with software updates ... and is this something Sony have done with other MD products in the past? -g

Not exactly cutting edge, here's the lot: P4 2.4 Asus P4PE Windows XP Pro (tweaked for audio recording) 1GB PC2700 2 x 250GB SATA RAID 0 (audio) 1 x 100 GB ATA133 Samples 1 x 80 GB ATA133 System 1 x 250GB external USB 2.0 (Backups) Matrox P650 dual head RME HDSP 9652 2 x UAD-1 1 x TC PoCo (PCI) Midex 8

Damn ... feck ... sh**e ... I JUST got my rh-10 (strictly for sampling purposes) and then MAudio announce this ... New MAudio recorder The rh-10 is OK for my purposes except downloading linear PCM from the device is S-L-O-W !!! I was under the impression that I could just drag and drop from windows explorer and over USB it would be reasonably quick. I couldn't believe it when I saw that the amount of time to transfer to the PC as as long as the actual recording. Ahh well, it will do in the short-term. -grimley

Phew ... thanks Dex! My rh10 just arrived and is currently charging. This is my first MD unit and I'm excited to try it out. I'm off to download HiMDRenderer now. I take it this is recommended over the Sony software? Thanks, grimley

Hold on ... what's this all about? I just ordered a RH-10 strictly for field recording (I'm a musician) and have no intention of using it as a playback device. I was planning to record samples as wav files, upload them to the PC and edit them in SoundForge before loading them into my samplers. Will this work with all this DRM garbage? Thanks, grimley

Sorry, I'm still a little bitter over my experience!! For all I know the H320 is a great solution for recording. I would check the misticriver forums at: http://www.misticriver.net/boards/ ... and once I get my rh10 (hopefully before the end of the week) I'll write a short report here on how my recording experiences compare with the iHP-120. I'm hoping the rh10 will suffice and I'm not tempted to go with something bigger and heavier like the Edirol unit. -grimley

My advice is stay away from the iRiver. Although it has some impressive recording specs on paper, I had 3 iHP-120s die on me (precursor to the 320). The hard drive would get trashed or the USB would stop working and there is nothing you can do but return the unit (when this happens there is no way to reset or format the drive). I got it mainly for field recording (I'm an amateur musician) but the recording facility has some major issues. Once you get your recording options setup you have to wait several seconds before recording begins. It seems like the more space is used on your hard disk the longer this delay will be. There are glitches in the recordings every so often. I got a 30GB iPod Photo as a gift last week so that takes care of my player needs and last Friday I ordered a MZ-RH10 for recording. Hopefully I will have more luck with this than I did with the iRiver. Later, grimley