fakeer

raintheory, great idea. never thought of the MD transfer process as a potential service. so is the recording quality really better on M100 compared to RH1 in view of the pre-amp and data acquisition bandwidth or is the difference merely subjective? i'm in the process of exchanging the M100 for an RH1 anyways so just wanted some views if that was a bad idea.

my apologies. the correct links are http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/1/92.html http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/1/92.html#POST699783 meanwhile i downloaded the pdf manual for RH1 and it seems to have the same kind of strings attached and does not clearly state the truth about NET MD support. Here are the few lines:

after rooting around on net forums i found the dirty history of this problem in its full glory - http://forum.eclustics.com/bbs/messages/1/92/html the story starts in 2001 but comes to a dubious end in 2006 and still in a state of confusion. yes? no? maybe? this post http://forum.eclustics.com/bbs/messages/1/92/html#POST699783 claims that MZ-RH1 finally lifts the curse of stupidity from SONY's MD team. how true is this let me find out...

ok so the question then is HOW? RH1? some other software? the problem is 5 years old and still hasn't been solved at all. it is sad that incompetent engineering and management has kept the full potential of MD technology under shackles. hope some MD fanatic eventually takes the job to lead the Sony team and fires each and every clown there. the only other option is that the community develops a solution to get around all the roadblocks. the problem of transfer has been a pain in the ass right since the start for all musicians who simply want a quality recording that is also archivable.

the MZ-M100 arrived yesterday and it looked like a work of art until a few minutes ago after failing to transfer recordings to PC with the popup message "Error occured while transferring, Unable to transfer to the computer" from SonicStage. now i don't understand if this is due to a security issue or some encoding problem. btw i can listen to the MD tracks just fine from my PC. the whole purpose of my getting the MZ-M100 was to transfer tracks that i have accumulated over the past 3 or 4 years from live recording and studio clips using an old Sharp MD-100 model and a stereo mic. line-out transfer from the Sharp unit sound ok but it's just not the same. i read on the forum that the tracks CANNOT be transferred if they were made using a different unit other than the MZ-M100. this is infuriating considering it's never mentioned anywhere in the manual or the reviews. yet another post states that if only i had gotten a MZ-RH1, i would be able to transfer legacy recordings without problems. has anyone else seen the error coming from SonicStage and know what is the real reason for it's cause? also which came first the M100 or the RH1? what is the truth behind the claim that RH1 can transfer anything and everything to PC? fakeer