I have just bought an MZ-NH700 having read the marketing and technical specs in the dumb belief that it recorded WAV files to the mini disc and that I would be able to drag drop them into my audio apps. But I should have known better - after all it's made by Sony!!! I have tried reverse engineering the HMA files on the disk and they seem to be in some bizarre format, blocks of data in chunks that is neither big endian, little endian, signed or unsigned which is what one would expect from a typical linear PCM file. Why am I having so much trouble you ask, when there is software available to translate the recording to WAV??? Well the Sony / Mac software won't work with this mini disc - God knows why - well obviously they want people to buy the new model don't they... So my other solution so far has been to run Sonic Stage 3.2 under Win XP in Virtual PC - which means it takes half a day to transfer anything to the Mac, having to go through the import process under emulation, and a further translation to WAV as for some bizarre reason despite ticking the box, it refuses to do it at the same time. SOMEBODY HELP!!! Thanks T