Please help - Looking for a home or portable deck

[Donniesito]

Hello!! I just found these forums after doing a google search out of desperation for my poor MD collection.

I've been a MD user since 1995 when I used my first unit (a pro unit we used in college production). I was so taken by the technology that (once the prices went down a bit) I bought one in 1999. Unfortunately that deck is long gone, and all I have now is a rather beat-up portable unit.

What I'm looking for is a unit (either a home deck or portable unit) that has a DIGITAL OUT. I've seen a great number of decks with digital in, but haven't been able to locate one with dig. out. I don't care which format (optical/spidf) because I can get a format converter.

I need to transfer a great number of projects from MD to my computer for editing and don't need the additional noise of going into the computer via analog.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks in advance :-)

Don

[raintheory]

You can upload (faster than realtime) your old MiniDiscs with the newest portable unit, the MZ-RH1: http://wwhttp://www.minidisc.org/part_Sony...ony_MZ-RH1.html

You may be able to find a used deck on eBay or elsewhere that has an optical out. Check out these decks and search for the ones that are listed as havinbg your optical outputs... Just be sure if you have MDLP recorded discs that the deck is MDLP compatible: http://www.minidisc.org/part_Decks_Sony.html

Really it all depends on what price range you are looking at.

Edited August 15, 2006 by raintheory

[bluecrab]

You didn't say if MDLP or better is a consideration. If it isn't, I have a completely working-condition Pioneer MJ-D508 deck (SP/MONO only) that is boxed up and doing nothing. It has optical out. I replaced it with a Sony LP deck a while back. I don't know if it is appropriate for me to say so here (if not, I'm sure I will be told so), but I would be willing to send it to a Good Home for $75. I am the original owner.

See http://www.minidisc.org/part_Pioneer_MJ-D508.html

I also have a Sony mid-size deck with opt/out, the MDS-S39

(http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sony_MDS-JE520+S39.html)

that works, but has some kind of turn-on bug similar to that of the infamous MDS-JE510, a unit I previously owned until it went south on me. The S39 you could have for, say, $25, with my warning that while it works it IS buggy. I am not its original owner.

You can email me at bluecrab22@comcast.net if interested in either.

Another option would be for you to poke around on Ebay for something with optical out!

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Hello!! I just found these forums after doing a google search out of desperation for my poor MD collection.

I've been a MD user since 1995 when I used my first unit (a pro unit we used in college production). I was so taken by the technology that (once the prices went down a bit) I bought one in 1999. Unfortunately that deck is long gone, and all I have now is a rather beat-up portable unit.

What I'm looking for is a unit (either a home deck or portable unit) that has a DIGITAL OUT. I've seen a great number of decks with digital in, but haven't been able to locate one with dig. out. I don't care which format (optical/spidf) because I can get a format converter.

I need to transfer a great number of projects from MD to my computer for editing and don't need the additional noise of going into the computer via analog.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks in advance :-)

Don

[aethyrmaster]

If you want a home Deck, PM me - I have one I could offer to you. Sony MDS-JE510.