Ishiyoshi Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 This is what all of you have been waiting for. The world first HiMD deck. A glimpse of what may yet to come for HiMD in 2005.This is ONKYO's INTEC 275 HiFi system, which includes a HiMD deck! Product No. MD-133(S), Approx. retail: 63,000 Yen. Retail sale date: March 9, 2005. The bad news with the deck (to some people) is there's no USB port, thus you can't use it with the PC.ONKYO INTEC 275 HiFi System HiMD MD-133 Specification Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsoul Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 (edited) Very Nice indeed. Very compact and sleek. Very nice, did I already say that? Looks like there may be decks and Hi-MD recorders from folks other than Sony in 2005 afterall. Unless this is a Sony incognito??Ok, Sharp, whatcha got?Thanks for the info. Edited January 27, 2005 by mrsoul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xispe Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 damn! that looks really nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 Electronic Translation (by Altavista)The specification says: Inputs: Analog 1, Digital 2 Outputs: Analog 1. No digital output... *Grmpf*Ok, I can still use SS plus my NH700 to create an unlimited number of copies.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsoul Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 Love that translation:"Audio playback of astonishment makes also that new quality is pulled out possible"And the long haul playback recording! Too bad about the digital output, Sony probably said "I don't think so, Sonic Stage and its lovely DRM does such a fine job with that already..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFK Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 Sounds interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin42 Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 Looks vaguely Sony-esque to me. Not that I'm too familiar with Onkyo's Japanese designs, but the first thing I thought is it looks like an evolution of the Sony decks.I would buy a deck in a heartbeat if I could get one with digital out. Without digital out (and in, obviously! it gets a little less tempting. But I can see Sony being the stumbling block... they've apparently not taken their MP3 "lessons" quite as well as they claimed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 wut no SACD or DVDA support? lol just kiddinglooks very good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlatEarth Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 Am I missing something here, or will all the discs that I've recorded in Hi-MD at 133/lp2 not play in this unit??Would be a shame, but I still can't wait to get my hands on some sort of home stereo unit for Hi-MD!! Seems like it's been forever in coming...Does anyone know if Sony is planning one with the launch of their new portables as well?Here's to the future my friends.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 Hi-MD audio means it'll playback discs recorded in Atrac/Atrac3/Atrac3+/PCMyour covered dont worry about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 Well no shit, this is rad! I'm moving this to the news section. Please e-mail a link to this thread to md-webmaster at minidisc dot org so it can go on the front page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bland10000 Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet...hi-md is making a place for itself in home systems. Only thing I'm not seeing is a hookup with the computer for titling but there might be a keyboard input...would like to see the back of this unit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MZ-NH1 Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 All I can say is AWSOME!!!!I looked at the pictures and just went, !!!!!!This looks really good. Very nice look to the whole unit and everything! I WANT 1! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 Personally I think the front panel has too much stuff on it. It is probably quite nice to use (nothing worse than really small unusable buttons), but it seems that this thing has too many buttons.Having the recording mode button on the left of the unit and the recording buttons on the right is a bit strange I think, and I'm also pretty used to the track skip buttons being closer to the play/pause/stop buttons.Hopefully more companies will start making their own Hi-MD stuff - if only someone went rogue and made one which could play back mp3s, oggs, wavs or whatever just straight off the disk.... Anyway, I don't think it is bad, in fact I think it is quite good - but I think they could still dial up the awesome on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jammin72 Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 This is another version of one of Oknyos shelf-sytems. It's not a Sony knock off they've been making mini-systems like this for some time. They do acutally sound pretty good for what they are. Great for a low level Bedroom system or for the office. I would't acutually consider this a full home unit but it gives me hope that Onkyo or someone else will make one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyc Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 now that they've realised their mistake, maybe Sony will wait and release a Hi-MD sysem with MP3 playback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted February 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 A relatively cheaper version: MD-105FX(S) - 42,000 Yen or $404 that comes with the INTEC 205 HiFi System. The whole system still cost a whopping $2,000 ++ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doclloyd Posted February 2, 2005 Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 (edited) now that they've realised their mistake, maybe Sony will wait and release a Hi-MD sysem with MP3 playback ←I'm sure I'm completely speculating here, but if you look closely at the last post with the image of the MD-105FX, you can read parts of the display where things light up... Just to the left of where "DIGITAL 1" is lit, there is "MP3" and "WMA"... quite odd. Wonder if it's something that's directly related to the Onkyo system and other things it supports (ie other inputs on this thing?), or if this is a sign of things to come from Sony as well? (Speculation is soooo much fun, especially late at night.) Edited February 2, 2005 by doclloyd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted February 2, 2005 Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 I'm sure I'm completely speculating here ...←Yes, you are speculating here....A FM-tuner with MP3 and WMA? I'll sort that into the 'quickly created press photo'-department.Same display template used here - Expect, that the display will look different on both units, when they go into production...The WatchImpress-Article: Click (mech. Translation ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artstar Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 Looks vaguely Sony-esque to me. Not that I'm too familiar with Onkyo's Japanese designs, but the first thing I thought is it looks like an evolution of the Sony decks.I would buy a deck in a heartbeat if I could get one with digital out. Without digital out (and in, obviously! it gets a little less tempting. But I can see Sony being the stumbling block... they've apparently not taken their MP3 "lessons" quite as well as they claimed. ←What we could hope for (and of course, I would need a schematic on this) is that either the DSP or the ATRAC coded IC's would have a standard PCM data output that we can steal and output to a SPDIF interface. Just a matter of checking it out on a schematic first, like I said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maia Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 Pretty component hi-fi. Too bad the MD deck doesn't even offer an optical output Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonMackay Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Hi all!If the deck is available as a separate purchase rather than one buying it _as part_ of the Onkyo suite of components, it would be worth its salt in many applications.Think of applications where long audio recording / playback time is necessary like radio logging and business background music for exampleWith regards,Simon Mackay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Unfortunately, it appears that this unit will not be available until late April due to the deck having write issues with temperatures over 50c. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfairfowl Posted March 14, 2005 Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 Sorry to be boring but where is the TIMER FUNCTION SWITCH? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted March 14, 2005 Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 Not all systems use the switch function for timing. There's a timer function on the tuner module, which you can see if you scroll down a little. That probably controls recording and timer play using an internal clock. These integrated systems usually use that method - meaning you don't need (or can't use) an external timer. The number of programs can be limited though. Of course no-one will really know until it's released.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brit_sailor2001 Posted November 20, 2005 Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 hey, does any one know if there is a hi-fi unit (hi-md) headed for the uk. i have emailed sony,but they are as much use as a choclate teapot. i would even settle for a car head unit (hi-md of course) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky191 Posted November 20, 2005 Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 If there was I think you'd have seen it before now. If the do release something now, most potential customers will have already moved to another format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DATfan Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 Not all systems use the switch function for timing. There's a timer function on the tuner module, which you can see if you scroll down a little. That probably controls recording and timer play using an internal clock. These integrated systems usually use that method - meaning you don't need (or can't use) an external timer. The number of programs can be limited though. Of course no-one will really know until it's released....If these Onkyo systems have a timer function (as it seems they do), then I can finally replace the old MDS-E12, and do my timer recordings on a 1GB MD in Hi-SP (ATRAC3plus at 256 kbps), rather than legacy LP4 (ATRAC3 at 66 kbps). As a bonus, that gives me 7 hours 55 minutes of stereo recording versus 5 hours and 20 minutes of mono.So I've ordered them from Japan and will be sure to take pictures and post how (if) the timer function works. As I understand it, one needs the pre/main amp and the tuner along with the Hi-MD deck for this to function. Just hope they arrive soon, and in good condition! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DATfan Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Just unboxed a new INTEC 275 system consisting of the MD-133, the pre main amp, and the tuner.I just need some time to figure out how to connect up and set the timer now. Will post more later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DATfan Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 (edited) Wow! This system is really slick. Very easy to operate, solid feel. The three essential components are the A-933 pre-main amp, T-433 tuner, and MD-133 Hi-MD player. Some might desire the CD player and speakers, but I omitted them from my purchase. I feel it was worth spending just shy of USD 2000, including all taxes and shipping. Especially so, as I remember the Sony MDS-E12 pro deck was USD 1200, by itself. I was going to describe how to set it up and make the timer record function work. But there's really no need, it is so straightforward. So, I'm not going to post a whole review just yet.The timer-record function does really work! EDIT: The A-933 is required for the timer function to operate.More later! Edited December 25, 2006 by DATfan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DATfan Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 (edited) You mean connecting the tuner's RI link to the MD's RI link is enough? I'd never though that was possible, but why not, let us know more about if it is indeed possible.EDIT: No, it doesn't work with just the tuner and deck. The timer can be programmed, but will not trigger without the A-933 Pre-Main Amp. The A-933 Pre-Main Amp is required for the timer to operate.EDIT: A 15 ft long mono (monaural) patch cable, terminated with mini-plugs, works correctly in place of the R1 cables.EDIT: The user can timer-record from one external source (i.e. something other than an Onkyo Intec 275 component). I use an ICOM IC-R75 base receiver. Of course, the user must ensure that this component will be operating at the needed time.EDIT: In the timer menu, I can choose to record from AM, FM, or LINE. The MD-133 takes as "LINE" the input to which the MD-133 was last set (DIGITAL1, DIGITAL2, ANALOG) . Because the timer cannot specify between the three possible inputs DIGITAL1, DIGITAL2 and ANALOG on the MD-133, the timer cannot make the input source change from whatever is currently selected for the MD-133. Other notes:The AM band is, of course, the Japanese standard, so it is fairly useless in the U.S. There are a few coincidences of usable frequences, such as AM 630 kHz, WMAL (ABC) in Washington, D.C. Even using the small AM antenna, I found the T-433 was able to lock on strongly, and found myself listening to WMAL's Christmas programs.I am using a step-down transformer to 100 V. 500 W should be sufficient, as I am not using any speakers with this setup, it's strictly a recording rig. Edited December 25, 2006 by DATfan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DATfan Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 Bump for my edits to previous messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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