Pete Porchos

I've been looking at ads for the NH700. A couple of places, including Amazon uk, (I am in England) are out of stock. One store has one for £299, and another for £109.99. It looks as if it isn't being sold here for very much longer.

Good evening Bob, Thank you for your advice. I have been thinking about batteries. I went to batteries thread in a subforum here. I was pleased to see another member unhappy about proprietary cables, batteries, chargers and the like. As far as I am concerned it is a must to have standard items. With my Sony camera I'm irritated by the USB cable, the battery, the charger and and the memory stick, which has not only been 'upgraded' to pro/super pro etc but also is difficult to find a reader for. So I am determined not to make the same mistake again. But back to batteries. I would be happy, on reconsidering, with standard AA power. The machine doesn't need to have a built-in charger. So you have helped me there. Thanks. Pete

Hello there A440, Thanks very much for your reply. I am pleased to know that the USB on the Sony is standard. I bought a Sony Cybershot camera many years ago. It has a proprietory USB cable, which I lost. Of course they are obtainable, but not so easily. The standard ones are obtainable in any electrical shop, and of course, like you, there are probably two or three lying around already. It's the same with the batteries. I tried hard to flatten the infolithium battery in the camera every time (by using a slide show), but it still deteriorated quite quickly. I also found it irritating having to carry a charger round with me on holiday. The ideal situation would be a machine which used both re-chargeable and standard AA batteries, and which would charge the batteries when attached to USB a la iPod, or perhaps a machine which uses both kinds of batery and has an external charger which charges the batteries while they are still in the machine. (I've got an mp3 CD player like this, it's very convenient) I am thinking about your other comments. I hope you have a nice day. Pete

Well, over the past week or so I have been doing some research. I have looked carefully at the Sony MZ RH1. I don't think it is for me. Because it has proprietory batteries. I suspect it also has a proprietory USB cable. I sent an email to the sony tech department and their help was decidedly unhelpful. Being a technical dept they were unable to comment on the USB connections. I can see the benefit of being able to record a lengthy mass of material onto media such as MD, but I think that I don't necessarily need to record very long passages. For this reason, the Edirol R09, which uses flash memory, has caught my attention, and this is where I am now at.

Hello again A440. Thank you for that link. I have downloaded it, put it on my ipod and listened. It’s good. You can hear where the silences have been introduced as pauses. So now I am thinking about what to get. I know what I don’t want. 1. anything with a proprietary battery. 2. anything with a proprietary USB cable (the end which goes into the device) And as for what I do want. 1. it must record mp3. 2. it must have software which I can use on windows me. As an aside. That Bruce Hornsby I listened to, how would that have been recorded? I mean, where would the mic have been?

Yes, I know what you mean about the quality. I jsut wanted to hear the spoken word or something similar. I am sure MD is far superior to anything I had done previously. I now know what Sonic stage is. Thanks. Another question - if you plug an MD into the USB, does it just recognise it as a drive? (I realise you have to install the drivers) If I have time this afternoon I will try and find something else to listen to from the downloads. Pete

Thanks again A440 for your reply. I went and listened to Bruce Hornsby. I was surprised how good the quality was. I haven't looked any further for spoken word, which is, I guess, where you will hear more of what you don't want. Don't have time just at the moment. I'll be back tomorrow. Pete

Hello A440, Thanks very much for your reply. Very clear and I understand well now the procedure. I have been investigating Audacity editor. I assume the software that comes with a machine such as this top of the range Sony is similar to Audacity. When I bought my Sony professional Walkman WM-D6C in 1988 I thought the sound quality was fantastic. Perhaps its quality has deteriorated over the years, of perhaps I am fussier these days, but there seems to be more hiss than I judge acceptable. I take it that there is no equivalent nuisance sound with digital recording. Pete

Good evening. I've skipped through this forum and the FAQs looking for an answer to my question, but have found nothing, so now I have to trouble you with it. I'm out of date, I know. I used to use a wonderful Sony Professional wm-d6c cassette recorder. Fantastic quality. Sadly the record button doesn't function properly now. I read onto tape, but often make mistakes. I used to just rewind and repair. I have been looking at the Sony MZ RH1. Can I with this, or any MD recorder, go back and repair a mistake like I used to with my old cassette player? Thanks, Pete