Hi I'm new to this forum, I Received an email telling me that MD as a recording medium maybe coming to an end This is Definatley not good news. Its a fantastic invention and it would be one sorry day when and if it does go to be replaced with hard disc style drives. I prefer to record albums onto disc and keep them and swap out to albums or compilations of singles. I tend to listen late at night in bed with sennheiser headphones, can't be doing with in ear types. I recently bought the MZ-RH10 Hi-MD, wonderful sounding unit. My only bug bear is no output to amp apart from headphone jack, which really isn't up to the job. I have original full size player MDS-JE640 which for recording music via coaxial is superb from my NAD cd player. But must confess to wanting a full size Hi-MD recorder. Why can't SONY offer some sort of deal upgrade or modify original players rather than building new ones and using up yet more of the worlds resources, but then i guess thats another story. I have the first MD player/recorder the MZ-1 and did have the player only model too, but that since really played up on me, so it had to go. Suffice to say I'm an avid lover of Minidisc and have been since it started. I couldn't live without them now Really Hi-MD is the disc version of DAT to a point anyway, if cd had the versatility of md editing, surely they could their pretty much the same thing after all. I could live with that I never had any problems with any of my minidiscs I still have the very first disc i recorded and it sounds as if i recorded it 5 minutes ago,. I'm a bit of an audio purist these days with the likes of DVD-audio and SACD so i can compare pretty much all of the formats. The worst being mp3 I did some on the hi-md and didn't like the results, all different volume levels between 128kbps to 256kbps not good at all. Give a solid clean recording and HI-MD to record onto please. I don't want it to end period.
