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nice shots :)

I remember this model well because I was heavily into MD (and Philips DCC - Digital Compact Cassette) at the time. The general consensus was that they released this model before they wanted to, to take some shine off DCC's release (which was out and selling a bit earlier, as I recall). Anyway, the second MD unit they released was MUCH smaller than this one.

Philips DCC was also praised in the hi-fi press for sounding better. But there's no denying the advantages of a disc.

Speaking of discs, those grey, non-translucent discs are the best (and I think I still have one lying around here). I still prefer opaque discs above all others (no light getting through).

Nice stuff. Brought back some memories when all this lossy audio stuff for the consumer market was new (which I really grew out of quickly) ;)

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great pictorial! I, like Tek, remember this from the MD vs DCC (lol) times.. it was on the cover of What Hifi, half wrapped in paper. The headline was "Minidisc is here, and we've tested it!" :)

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sadly, no remote, but i was so happy when i won this from ebay, guess how much i paid.

check this out, someone is gonna kill me.....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

ebay, go go go. :D

holy moly! :o

that's one hell of a deal! well done!

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My MZ-1 rarely comes out of the cupboard these days, but my DCC recorder is still in the hifi rack in the lounge! But there's a JE520 above it. At one time you could get portable DCC machines but I never saw one.

Yes, the portables were made by Matsushita (Panasonic), just as Matsushita made the Philips and Marantz tape transports on their (early) DCC decks (Seagate made the thin-film heads). You might recall Technics (another Matsushita brand) released their own DCC decks and were a visible supporter of Philips' format. Their portables were quite bulky even for back then, but were built like TANKS. Really good build quality. Was *that* close to buying one new when they were out in the stores here. Probably a good thing I didn't tho. I owned both early DCC and MD, so that woulda been a bit too much. Hah.

Saw one on ebay selling in Australia for around 40 bucks a while back but decided tape just wasn't for me, let alone lossy compression of DCC :) Wanted one to admire the build quality and to satisfy my curiosity, mostly, hah...and to use as a really robust tape deck that I could give hell to in case I ever needed it - but I really don't use tape at all and haven't for years, but I love deluding myself that I would when it comes to quality Matsushita hardware ;)

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For those interested, here is a comparison photo of my MZ-1 -vs- MZ-RH10 (I couldn't find a brick for comparison ;) ).

Wow, very interesting to see 'the first' . . .and to think that the evolution of the technology ended (before moving on to HiMD) with the ultra slim E10!

Andrew

(my first MD was MZN-710, now NH-1)

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