phaworth Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 Just got my MZ-NH900 unit and used it to record several hours of music at a music festival. This is the first time I've used any minidisk recorder and I'm sure there are a lot of good things about the quality of the recordings they produce, but the design of this thing stinks! The LCD display is way too small and practically unreadable in almost any lighting conditions. And it has no backlight - really useful when you are trying to record something in a dark concert hall and can't even see if you pushed the record button correctly. And then there's the buttons it. Why on earth are they so small? It's difficult to find them in a darkened room and they give practically zero tactile feedback as to whether you actually successfully pressed them or not. The track mark button on the side is particularly bad in this respect. Add to that Sony's proprietary mania for their ATRAC3 format and the lack of an official method of converting from that format to one that the rest of the world uses (Yes, I know about himdrenderer), and this product is pretty poor. I guess I can only blame myself for buying this thing online without actually seeing it first, but if the Roland R-1 turns out to be anything close to as good as the pre-release blurb claims, my Sony unit will be for sale on eBay in December. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skmetal07 Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 glad your happy with your 900! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xispe Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 yep i agree with you! hi-md sucks completely! sell it! :laugh: :grin: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Moving to correct subforum.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutant1345 Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 yep i agree with you! hi-md sucks completely! sell it! :laugh: :grin:hey now it doent suck COMPLETELY :laugh: there is one good thing that everyone can find in the units but those dont usualy weigh out to the bad ones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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