Hrograth

Hi, I'm based in Torquay and use my RH1 everyday to listen to and edit band practice recordings - however I dropped it the other day (its still ok - thank goodness) but it was a call to heed the often repeated wise words on this excellent forum. So, if any one has an NHF800 or similar AA powered HiMD up to around £50 they would like to sell please contact me. The RH1 is now in my old N707 case Many thanks in advance Paul H

Many thanks Avrin and Whitecloud1 - time to raid the piggy bank for a backup unit (an AA battery-powered methinks)

Hi There, Have a black RH1 which replaced my slightly battered (FF/next track function intermittent) MZ-N707 last October, based on glowing recommendations of this unit on this forum. It is used for recording band practices and even occasional gigs with the ecm 907 mic. oh, and every day whilst walking to and from work! All the plusses of this unit already noted above are echoed and I have been slowly building up a stock of both 1Gb and MD disks to store all my albums / singles. Im also now looking to purchase a back-up unit for playback and possible editing of band practices. Another RH1 seems a bit excessive, so an RH710 or even an NH1 is favourite at the moment. A question, is it possible to edit or track mark RH1 recordings (mic input) with, a 1st or 2nd gen HI-MD? BTW I bought the RH1 from our local specialist Hi-fi shop in Paignton, who said they were shifting like hot cakes even at £240.00 a go. The local Sony shop (Exeter) stocked neither the RH1 or the 1Gb HiMDs . . . . Long live Hi-MD - it really is that good! Paul H

Hi Wayward Traveller, The same happens to me. I have a Win ME 900Mhz Hewlett Packard Pavilion PC, which is not connected to the web and had all the non-essential processes un-installed. No need for antivirus so it runs up in flawlessly from power up in less thasn 10 seconds. Anyway upon taking possession of a new RH1 (brilliant piece of kit), SS3.4 loaded fine and is able to do nearly everything asked of it. All goes well until I tried to make an Audio CD from the tracks I had recorded and downloaded from the RH1 into SS3.4. It gets halfway into the process and seems to hang, with the time increasing and % indicator frozen. I left it for a good pair of hours hoping that it would chunter through the 40 mins of music, but it got nowhere. On the second attempt, it also ceased and didnt start burning the CD. I have the Offline Installer for SS4.0 (many thanks again!) and will be trying it tomorrow night (band practice tonite). Is a 900Mhz PC simply too slow?

Typical Sony! Ive ben using my MZ707 to record our Band practice sessions and some gigs and the quality is excellent. Its hamstrung by Sonic Stage and as I have a slow internet connection haent been able to allocate 3 hrs to try to download it to see if its compatible with my MD. I also have a NR70V CLIE - also excellent and a market leader imho - which they've also dropped with very little consideration of the large customer base. . . . . therefore the MD will probably go that way too - hopefully it'll be replaced by a 160GB hard drive recordable device - but maybe Sony have too much of a stranglehold on the music business to allow mere musicians to record their own music. harumph!! by the way i'm waiting for a colour version of the Psion Revo to come out - the old REVO+ was the best PDA Ive ever used . . .