MZ- E20

[dogville]

I have an old MZ-E20 and my intention is buying a RH-1.

Has anybody ever had one like mine?.

Has minidisc quality sound highly improved since this MZ-E20 was released?.

To cut short, is the change worth doing?

thanks so much

[greenmachine]

If you don't care about faster than realtime USB transfer, extended disc capacity, extended battery life, recording functionality or numerous other minor improvements, there's propably no reason for you to upgrade.

[atrain]

not to mention multiple upgrades to the atrac codec

[dogville]

If you don't care about faster than realtime USB transfer, extended disc capacity, extended battery life, recording functionality or numerous other minor improvements, there's propably no reason for you to upgrade.

All that is very exciting, but what about sound quality? (the most important part for me; otherwise I would have purchased an i-pod )

Thanks

Edited April 27, 2006 by dogville

[jaylen]

Here's a quick comment from someone:

In Tokyo now, checked out the RH1

[greenmachine]

SP in an older unit vs. SP or Hi-SP in a more recent unit should both be virtually transparent (very good). Other modes like LP2, LP4 or Hi-SP just add more compression, which isn't exactly beneficial for sound quality. The main difference is in quanitity: 80 minutes in SP on standard discs vs. almost 8 hours in Hi-SP on 1GB discs.