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Advantages Of Recording A Cd To Hi-md?

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physya

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I am sure it was discussed somewhere - I apologize for the repetition.

Anyway, there are many topics discussing recording of a CD to MD and then uploading it to PC. What is it good for? Isn't the direct rip and encoding just on a PC better?

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Direct rip and encoding on a PC is better. Plus, if you use an ATRAC codec to record your music on to MD (ie Hi-SP, Hi-LP) and then transfer to PC, you will incur a quality loss when you re-encoding to another lossy format - you're compressing the music twice.

Plus if you are recording a CD from an analogue input, you loose out again.

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Just what I thought...

The reason I am asking is that I was considering purchasing either MZ-RH910 or MZ-DH710. As far as I understand, the only difference (in addition to price) is that the MZ-DH710 does not have mic and line-in recording (and only 3 lines of LCD). Since I never encountered a situation when I need to record something outside of my house, I chose MZ-DH710.

(... and ordered it today for $145... with $0 s/h)

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In the past (NetMD units), people prefer units with optical in because that's the only way to get true SP quality recordings. Today, with HiSP, that won't be much of a problem anymore. Some people still prefer the higher end units because they have mic-in, which is crucial for those that do field/live-recordings, and the only $50 difference is worth it to get the RH910. If you will only going to transfer AudioCDs to your HiMD via PC, then IMO the DH710 is probably a decent unit. 1 thing I notice is it uses the older type of menu display (similar to 1st gen HiMD units), while the RH910/10 uses menu display more similar to Sony's HD walkmans.

And yeah, give us a review, and some pics if you can. smile.gif

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