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my mz nh 900 always stops recording after a few mb when recording on to a 1 gb disc. no matter if it is audio or just raw data. unit totally blocks only to stop when removing battery. maybe i shouldn't have dropped it on the floor? anyway i've noticed that storing those md's next to a new battery causes the unit to be unable to read or write the disc. when i link my unit to my pc it sometimes help

I think it has to do with the D/A convertor used in HiMD's. This type of sigma-delta converter always has problems with compressed high frequencies. It's like taking pictures of moving objects: a slow moving object will be seen more clearly then a fast moving object. In HiMD when analysing frequencies of frames: a low frequency will be more accuratly registred then a high frequency. I don't kwow if MP3 conversion is typically difficult with a Delta Sigma convertor though. Maybe atrac compression puts more emphasis (less compression?) on high frequencies then mp3 conversion? Just a thought but i'd still like to know if anyone thinks the same or has a different idea?

take note also that HiMD is a lot faster in copying 1 large 280 MB file then 280 1 MB files. Probably due to rewriting the index every time you add a file.

One little supplement to my post: As I'm looking into sigma delta conversion it seems to me that it has more difficulties in creating a digital copy of high analog frequencies. e.g.: a sine wave at hight frequency seems to be more difficult to measure correctly then low frequencies. Has anybody else come to the same conclusion? PS: Not meaning that the quality of MD converter isn't good enough.

Coorect me if I'm wrong but i think that one bit converters measure the frequency of a sample making an average of the output 0/1 wich is created through a delta sigma modulator at least the Nyquist rate (twice the sample frequency), wich then is put together to make a linear 16 bit PCM datastream. I think the difference with other converters is that they use only the frequencies that are fed to the convertor. Again I don't really understand, but that's what I've made from it.

It seems strange to me that this has to be expensive. I have a digital sony camera at home which comes with exactly the same USB plugs. So I think you can even get a USB cable in a camera store. Anyway I use both and I noticed no difference in functionality. Did not know there was any difference in HiMD usb connection cables, forget my post.

Qwakrz (or anyone else) you say the signal is converted, does this mean that for any recordings up to 48 khz there is a cutoff of frequency at 44,1 khz. And does this mean in case of 32 khz recording fed to the MD that noise will be added to about 44,1 khz or not? Nobody's entirely wrong in considering this a freak question. You might even complement me.

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managed to copy a few GB of an external harddisk of a collegue of mine, thanks to my HiMD. I had to buy some blank disks in my lunch break, but the result is that now I'm listening to some classics of Mos Def and Dilated peoples on my computer at work (through mic-in input) 132kbps Still got some disk to burn with cocoa brovaz, dj shadow,... soon to come.

I didn't really know anything about MD untill about '98. My Toy Story: I had always been recording music with plain tapes, since the age of 12. I recorded radiotransmissions, cd's and other tapes with my philips all in one. I loved it. My own music collection! As I grew up I made more recordings and noticed that tape recordings had it's flaws in quality and durability. But it was still kind of sufficient for me at that time. In '95 hiphop was growing popular in France. As I'm from Belgium (a small country @ the north border of France) I got interested too. I started mixing vinyl on somebody else's gear(gemini). At about the same time I "borrowed" my parents somewhat more professional tapedeck (with adjustable record volume) permanently and switched from normal audio tapes to metal. Improved quality and durability. The first tape we made sucked. The records were great, but the mixing was poor. Nevertheless I was often listening to the tape for the records (KRS one, show & ag, wu tang,...the classics) After some time the tape got stuck in my recorder. At the end I had two pieces of tape (so far for durability). So I didn't know what else to do the to make two tapes of it. Don't know if you have experience with this, but it's funny cause the pitch gets all messed up. A few months later I started buying vinyl as a hobbyist dj. Soon followed by my own Technics. The need for good recordings grew stronger, but the availabity of metal tapes decreased. Discovering the world of mixing, scratching and yes even a bit of beatjugglin' I soon realised that taperecorders weren't the solution for me. Since my cd player broke down a few months earlier (lens) and my first home-written cd's started to deteriorate, I didn't feel the need to buy a stand alone cd recorder, which in addition was still quite expensive. Especially the type of CD recorder I was interested in (recorder with cinch audio-in). Figuring out a way of saving my best recordings with the best quality for a long time my eye fell on a little device used by a friend. An MD recorder. I borrowed it from him to make a mix tape. 90 minutes of pure joy (written on two disk that still work like a charm). I was really surprised that such a small device could do all. Recording (only sp back then, great quality and durability compared to tape) with volume adjustment. Editing was real easy (2X45 minutes mix tape recorded in different takes, put together) Listening (easy to use, small and shockproof walkman) . At that time I was already writing CD's with music I created op the PC and found it inconvient at least always having to move my gear from my room to the computer downstairs so I could sample my records. Earlier "investments" in records and other audio gear, made it impossible to buy a MD recorder, so I continued borrowing MD recorders from friends (sometimes for months :-) ). Any of them reading this. Thanks again. Finally last year, with one of my first pay checks I bought the MZ-NH900. PCM quality recording (interesting for sampling music), Uploading (thanks 2 Marc), editing on the move (or on PC), listening and of course the slow but well apreciated data transfer possibility (I love convergence in media).

dropperd my mz-nh 900 on concrete floor, just a scrath on the unit

I'm happy to tell that i can't confirm having problems with the NH900, mine, a european version, does not have the problems listed above.

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Or... Buy both Hi-MD and the new media. This way everybody's happy.

Is it possible to have a downloadable version of SS 3.2 without installer? Download section?

Maybe it's a stupid question but here goes anyway... Does the apparent presence of supplementary resistors mean that they are used? Or to put it in other words: Might it not be possible to pass them (the resistors) by by adjusting some values in the service mode?

i'm afraid that won't be possible. The drm info is imbedded in the oma/omg file. I've done the test and was not able to play it on another computer.

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Add to all this information that apple is changing to intel chips...

I'd like to meet that someone or clever fellow. I think it's more like, when hell freezes over, but with the greenhouse effect we're now experiencing, who knows...?

Depends on how you look at it? Is it possible to edit a FLAC recording into the smallest details, to do spectrum analysis and apply filters? Iff this is possible then we don't need the raw WAV files anymore and we'll only use the sophisticated FLAC files. By the way does FLAC support all bitrates (16-32) and frequencies (44100 - 48000)?

I 've once had the problem when deleting a piece of a recording. It gave me a record error and afterwards cannot read or write. when i started up SS it wouldn't recognize my HiMD recordings, but when i pulled the disk out and put it back in while SS was open and HiMD attached, i was able to play some files, other files made SS crash. Then i deleted the track i thought that caused the problem (file that was probably corrupted)and i was able to use/copy/play the rest of the data both on SS and HiMD. Have you checked (using explorer) if there are still data left in de hifi file that refer to your recording? Probably this will not help you unless sombody knows how to transfer the data file in hifi on your md to a readable audio format.