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Thanks, I just did it, I don't notice any change but then I rarely play on full volume (though I do occasionally put it on full, I have the habbit on putting it around the max level of avls). More about the principle of the matter for me, I don't care what silly european laws say, I don't want my equippement crippled even in the slightest because people who pass these laws say it should be, if I want to kill my hearing by playing megadeth on full volume it's my choice and my right

Uhm, where exactly in the manual can I find this? I'm searching through it now, I'd feel better changing the setting if it was in the manual, thanks

Little question, some of you say this "isn't worth it" ... is this because the difference is this minimal or does doing this carry risk/change anything besides the volume? Even if the difference is minimal (even if it can't be noticed) I'd do this, out of general principle that I don't like the idea of a crippled (however little) unit. If it carries any risk or change anything else though I wouldn't bother.

I guess it all depends on how you like to hear your music, many people here still listen to fm radio so I guess for them 48 kbps/64 kbps, especially if your headphones are low quality doesn't make any difference at all. To me though 256 kbps mp3s (I like atrac too but the codec doesn't have enough options for my taste and I doubt it's frequently updated) is a bare minimum, a compromise so I can store a little more on a disc.

Thanks for that, I was aware of most of the pro's of li-ion batteries but had no idea about the cons, still, anything is better then NiCd in my opinion.

13:20 -> 23:20 (10 hours of continuous play, 9 hours 30 minutes not counting some downtime) It's still at 1 bar, time for bed. Mixed feelings about the outcome. I would've liked to know exactly how long it would last (though I can't imagine it holding out another hour depending on the time it took for the other bars to go down) but I gotta wake up at 05:00 tomorrow so I have to get some sleep. On the other hand I'm very happy that it went the entire day without going down (weekend -> I wake up pretty late). Since I never listen the entire day through this means to me that I can listen as much as I want which is great for me. Manual says it can play 16 hours of 128 kbps mp3's. Since I'm using 256 kbps VBR I'm willing to bet that it would indeed be between 14 - 16 hours but then this is just a guess. Since I don't have a mic yet (planning to get one, would be great to record some guitarpractice in high quality) I can't test recording but I bet before I ever get to it someone else will have checked it. Hope I've helped you out. Cheers

Little update, it's now 20:30 over here (playtime 8 hours and 10 minutes) I've let it play continuous today skipping between headphones and line out occasionally (when I'm at my place in my bedroom I tend to connect it to my speakers, I'd say it's been 70% headphones 30% line out), the player skipped to the last bar on the battery about 25 - 30 minutes ago. There are about 15 minutes when the player wasn't on though, I went out today and talked a bit to a friend walking his dog, the dog jumped me and the headphones came off of the remote at which point I put them in my pocket, figured it'd keep playing, not sure if it stopped playing because nothing was connected or if pause/stop accidentally got pushed. I'd count another 15 minutes all together for times when I changed discs (it'll be considerably less but just to make the generalisation big rather then small). As I said the mp3s are all VBR 256 kbps, I've used the player on max volume (with AVLS so that's volume '14' except of course the times it was in line out mode). The sound quality I gotta say is simply amazing, perhaps I'm not the right person to judge this as I've been using plain mp3 players for the past years but the sound is very vivid and alive, it far surpasses what I was used to on the sony vaio pocket player (though those files were CBR at 256 kbps since the vaio pocket doesn't handle VBR's). Anyway I'll report later today wether the battery gave out before I go to sleep or if it didn't. (Oh btw I'm not a great photographer so the picture seems to show the battery being halfway but it's at it's last block) [attachmentid=1741] [EDIT: I screwed up the percentages line out/headphones above EDIT2: was playing 8 h 10 at the time]

Yup, it says this in the manual. For me this isn't too much of a problem as I usually charge players at night, I just thought it was really cool for displaying the remaining time. dogville, I just took it out of the charger (was on all night so it's fully charged. I'll let it play continuous today. it's been playing for about 40 minutes now so I started at around 13:20 (I put that here as a reference for myself so I can also report when it's completely discharged, that is if that happens today) perhaps important is that I use all mp3 VBR files at 256 kb/s (space/quality, I prefer great quality so I would've maxed it to 320 kb/s but then I wouldn't have been able to put some bands on 1 disc as I got around 10 cds of most of my bands)

I've had it for 1 day now (was supposed to wait but someone else cancelled his order so I got lucky) though I haven't fully used the battery yet (I've been at home all day yesterday so it was almost always either connected to the pc or charging but I've used it about an hour without and it didn't seem to show any decline. I know this isn't very helpfull but I'll let you know when I field test it. Very cool thing about charging though is that it shows exactly how many minutes are left to a full charge. I'm not sure if this is calculated or if this is measured but either way I think it's really cool.

Ah thanks guys, I thought the volume limitation was going to be worse (I think I read about the rh10's being a big step down) either way if the hack comes out I'll probably do it out of general principle

After almost 10 years I have ordered a new minidisc player (the mz-rh1). I bought one of the first models back when minidisc was relatively new (I think one or two years old) and was always very happy about it, back then I was younger though and electronics didn't have a great halflife in my hands so eventually it broke down. Since then I've gone through a couple of different players, most recently the now 'old' (and unsupported) sony vaio pocket(ap1l) which I still like though I always favored the 'cool' minidiscs (I'm not sure if you guys still notice but the little discs in the plastic case always had a great look to me, I don't understand how it didn't hit big but then sometimes the best things go by unnoticed by 'the public') and since even the 40 gb hd in the vaio pocket is filling up as my cd collection has become somewhat bulky I figured Hd players will keep giving me shortages in space. I can't wait for my rh1 to arrive though I do have a small concern about possible limitations. As I'm from Europe I've read (http://www.mdcenter.nl/redirect.php?file=http://www.mdcenter.nl/artikelen/mzrh1/index_en.php) that according to european law the volume settings have to be restricted, I've also read in several threads on several fora that there have been 'hacks' to discard this limitation in previous models (rh10 for example). I'm wondering if anyone knows if this limitation is indeed in effect and if so if a similar hack is planned to be made for the rh1. I would greatly appriciate someone shedding some light on this for me, thanks.

If you're fast and your friend can make a short trip to belgium (antwerp belgium) the sony store has a shipment comming in within 3 weeks, this is a small store though and they said it's about 5 of them of which I already preordered one so I'm not sure if you'll be able to catch it, worth a shot though if the distance doesn't bother you. Hope it helped [EDIT] Oh btw the price is 320 euros