Optical Copying -- 2 / 3 / 4 Generations Etc.

[1kyle]

Really crazy system but a 2nd Gen digital copy of an MD can be made by plugging the optical OUT into a DAT recorder --I had an Old at least 7 years old portable AIWA DAT recorder which I've just uncovered in a Spring Clean and copy to DAT tape (found a few tapes as well).

Then the digital output from the DAT into the optical input of say an NH1.

The SCMS on the MD only seems to check if it's going into another MD unit --doesn't care about the optical in on a DAT recorder apparently.

This MD can also then make 1 further digital copy (from the MD unit's optical out).

Not sure how useful this info is --and only minds as twisted as mine would bother trying something like this out --but if you MUST have multiple digital copies of MD's particularly LP2 / SP and haven't got a computer conveniently to hand it works.

BTW the batterry for the old AIWA looks exactly like a standard stick of Dynamite !! --surprised the old AIWA machine still worked without any dropouts etc.

Cheers

-K

Edited June 21, 2005 by 1kyle

[jadeclaw]

SCMS doesn't care, what type of media is used.

It looks like, that the DAT resets one of the SCMS-bits.

But remember one thing: Even a digital copy between MD-units still involves a decode/reencode cycle, so you have a generation loss.

For my old ears, in SP five generations are ok, in LP2 it is three generations before the quality suffers.