Syrius Posted July 22, 2005 Report Share Posted July 22, 2005 I went to Fry's electronics today, trying to find the new Hi-MD. Only found the camera MD unit, for 400 dollars or so. Only 2 HiMD blanks left, and after hesitating, I didn't bring one with me.And what do I see? A Creative Muvo2. With Radio Recording capability (I could use my FM transmitter out of pretty much anything, and record with that thing, w00t.) But I just found out it records in 4-bit, 22 KHZ, IMA-PCM! Even Hi-LP would sound better than that.The world can keep their Rios, Crap-Pods, Muvos (Ok, only the I-river that can record and upload in Wav is up to Hi-MD's awesomeness) and similar devices. Hi-MD separates the men from the boys.MD detractors can say whatever they want. Nothing rocks more than using my NHF800 to record music off those TurboGrafx CD games that crash any ripping software and then uploading the WAVs to my computer, to do with them whatever I wish after using Hi-MDRenderer.Top that, Apple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menthol Moose Posted July 22, 2005 Report Share Posted July 22, 2005 Actually, a new series of solid state and hard drive players from people like creative and samsung will record line in at rates far above that, direct to mp3. And no DRM management to make you rip your hair out.And yes, I did just ditch my MD player. Hi MD was great for recording, but there was just too many issues for normal mp3 use.What really sold me on other brands is timed recording and your selection of bit rate. They can be set like a VCR and record automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted July 22, 2005 Report Share Posted July 22, 2005 I couldn't find an affordable quality recording solution besides MD yet either although i've been looking. I thought a Creative Nomad Jukebox 3 could be a good substitute, but besides other drawbacks such as size and battery i'm not impressed with its AD stage quality. For playback primary however there are countless good substitues for MD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmp64 Posted July 22, 2005 Report Share Posted July 22, 2005 Actually, a new series of solid state and hard drive players from people like creative and samsung will record line in at rates far above that, direct to mp3. And no DRM management to make you rip your hair out.And yes, I did just ditch my MD player. Hi MD was great for recording, but there was just too many issues for normal mp3 use.What really sold me on other brands is timed recording and your selection of bit rate. They can be set like a VCR and record automatically.←For recording, I still like the idea of having cheap, removeable media on which to store stuff - one MD for each session, or gig, or t.v. show, or whatever. With HD recorders - everything is all in one place - even if you back it up. True, you could burn to CD, but that seems like a lot of work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e1ghtyf1ve Posted July 22, 2005 Report Share Posted July 22, 2005 Actually, a new series of solid state and hard drive players from people like creative and samsung will record line in at rates far above that, direct to mp3. And no DRM management to make you rip your hair out.And yes, I did just ditch my MD player. Hi MD was great for recording, but there was just too many issues for normal mp3 use.What really sold me on other brands is timed recording and your selection of bit rate. They can be set like a VCR and record automatically.←I finally ditched my old MD recorder (an MZ-R50) and gave it to a retired audio engineer buddy, and replaced it with a cheap but lovely sounding MZ-RH910. The new Hi-MD rig will get its first recording test on an upcoming gig as a backup to my Powerbook DAW and DAT combo.We've noticed audible artifacts on playback with iPods, iRivers, and Samsungs we own - almost enough to be a serious distraction from the listening experience. We didn't bother with a 4-bit Creative. They do seem adequate for rock or pop through the radio, though. Their A/D converters, if present, sound pretty miserable to our ears. Maybe the little ARM processors they use to encode directly to mp3 are a bit overstretched? Or maybe the problem lies with the decoding? Biggest waste of my cash ever.The only handheld recorders that could compete with a 16-bit Hi-MD recorder would be a Sony PCM-M1 (20-bit, with adapter) or the very nice Edirol R-1 (24-bit). Both are very costly, especially with the R-1 using 1GB flash cards!Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveDu Posted July 24, 2005 Report Share Posted July 24, 2005 LOL well I was in and out the local Fry's (San Diego) couple times a week and all I noticed is they have one camera Hi-MD unit for 499 and 2 MZ-RH10s for 299 and NO blank Hi-MDs... And from the first day I saw them until yesterday they weren't even touched lol.Yeah they have a huge selection on personal entertainment units (I don't want to call them MP3 players lol) they have to put them in two sections, one is for all SONYs and another is for everything else. Sony's isle remain untouched and dusty, the other section on the other hand is full of people.If two weeks ago the checkout line wasn't so lame I'll have that RH10 right now... but consider there are some issues with it I decided to skip it.Well if someday we'll develop a portable ADAT player otherwise I'm staying with my MBox at home and Digi002 192 at work lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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