BIGHMW Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 Agreed. MD and Hi-MD are both godsends from Sony, and then they had to go and wreck it all with BS like DRM and SCMS in their recorders and such, but, I own pro recorders (an HHB CDR-850 and a Sony MDS-E10) and use SonicStage 4.2CP so I don't have to worry about DRM or SCMS, period.I am sure glad that I goy into the best digital recording media format ever made back 10 years ago (my management, Len Enders of Label Cove Entertainment turned me onto it.), and I will never go back to cassette tape or bother to become an iSheep or MP3 freaks like some of the guys on Head-Fi are (I wish they would see), not even if the MD players becomes "obsolete" or inferior in the eyes of the mainstream. There is a reason why I state proudly the slogan "ATRAC or DEATH!!!" in my pro-MD/Hi-MD rhetoric, it's because loyalty is still a very sacred value to some people, especially when you are in your 40s like myself. That is why i have stockpiled in both legacy and Hi-MD players and recorders because I don't want to be left out in the cold when the time "comes" to evolve to a new format when one of my main units die on me.Remotes, units, cases, accessories, blank media. I am ready for the long journey into portable audio heaven, may God have my spot be equipped with a full MD system when I die please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theblueraja Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 I can easily move between my car (via fm transmitter)...eww.. dude you HAVE to get an AUX hookup into your car stereo!! 10x better sound than FM Trans.... YUCK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGHMW Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 eww.. dude you HAVE to get an AUX hookup into your car stereo!! 10x better sound than FM Trans.... YUCKOR, the Connects 2 ASONWHD001 or ASONWHD002 instead for total control over your player Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitdroidtech Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 eww.. dude you HAVE to get an AUX hookup into your car stereo!! 10x better sound than FM Trans.... YUCK you are looking at a guy who paid $39 for a (new - an utter bargain) MZNH600!! I don't have the budget at the moment to buy a decent head unit, so I'm stuck the with the original 1992 peugeot unit (with no aux in). I've also been told only a few CD head units will function reliably at the 45 degree angle at which Peugeot have placed the stereo din hole, so I need to look at more expensive units.It's not as bad as it could be - I have an FM transmitter installed in the car - it runs off car power and is installed in line with the antenna (an actual metal to metal rf connection) so reception is always excellent. I'm happy enough for now. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobt Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 you are looking at a guy who paid $39 for a (new - an utter bargain) MZNH600!! I don't have the budget at the moment to buy a decent head unit, so I'm stuck the with the original 1992 peugeot unit (with no aux in). I've also been told only a few CD head units will function reliably at the 45 degree angle at which Peugeot have placed the stereo din hole, so I need to look at more expensive units.It's not as bad as it could be - I have an FM transmitter installed in the car - it runs off car power and is installed in line with the antenna (an actual metal to metal rf connection) so reception is always excellent. I'm happy enough for now. :-)what works, works, at least you have the choice of tunes. What modek Peugeot do you have, worked on them in the 70's and 80's, always had a soft spot for the french carsTTFNBob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonh Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 "If your not into Recording , and your not into Audiophile quality sound ,............ Then Why are you on this board ? 3 posts , and your blurting out negatives about something you obviously do NOT understand ? or appreciate , ......... interesting , were you a lonely child? Did you get picked on a lot in school?"To the above: Never a lonely child. Never been picked on. I can only try to understand what you went through.To everyone else: I made my post in response to the thread title and the general theme of replies that I saw. I thought I may as well point out why I think md equipment and blanks are becoming harder to find. I sincerely would like to see md flourish, but I don't see how that will happen now. Maybe I'm wrong. Who knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGHMW Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 what works, works, at least you have the choice of tunes. What modek Peugeot do you have, worked on them in the 70's and 80's, always had a soft spot for the french carsTTFNBobBefore VW, I had mine for vintage Citroens myself, those were weird-looking-but-cool cars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theblueraja Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 "If your not into Recording , and your not into Audiophile quality sound ,............ Then Why are you on this board ? 3 posts , and your blurting out negatives about something you obviously do NOT understand ? or appreciate , ......... interesting , were you a lonely child? Did you get picked on a lot in school?"To the above: Never a lonely child. Never been picked on. I can only try to understand what you went through.To everyone else: I made my post in response to the thread title and the general theme of replies that I saw. I thought I may as well point out why I think md equipment and blanks are becoming harder to find. I sincerely would like to see md flourish, but I don't see how that will happen now. Maybe I'm wrong. Who knows.That's cool, man - glad you like MD. You can make it 'flourish' in you own home all you want, just like us Part of the fun is the hunt... I can WALK to Target and get iPods... where's the fun in THAT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobt Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 Ahaa, another DS lover Ever been in a SM?, that ride trumps all! owned two DS's worked on them as well, loved the SM, no sensation of speed, was driving on in the wet one time, thought I was doing 30 to 40 MPH, ended up I was doing about 85 MPH, light touch on the mushroom, down to 40, no hassle, what a carBob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitdroidtech Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 what works, works, at least you have the choice of tunes. What modek Peugeot do you have, worked on them in the 70's and 80's, always had a soft spot for the french carsTTFNBob1992 405 SRI. Not the much nicer Mi16, but still European styling, and much better handling than most Jap cars I've driven in the same class - even including modern one's. While I wouldn't say no to a V6 turbo Pininfarina 406 Coupe , I am still quite attached to my old 405.And the fm transmitter setup definitely helps me enjoy my music more, low tech as it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitdroidtech Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 Well I'm definitely going to do my best to keep mini-disc alive after reminding myself last weekend of the usefulness of minidisc. I went down to my mums farm, and had my MZNH600 and a few discs with me, and my walkman cassette player. I ran some of mum's cassettes through and recorded onto minidisc, marked out the tracks using the unit itself, tagged them in Sonic Stage, then ripped them onto her PC, then burnt to audio CD (for mum), and made MP3 copies (for my phone). (she's been wanting to listen to them but has no tape deck only a CD player). Now I realise I could have reocrded them straight into the sound card from the cassette, but 1. Sound card (mike) 3.5mm input on mum's laptop is a crap and weak signal. 2. I could do all the sound level adjustments on the minidisc without having to use a Audacity or similiar on the PC - much more straight forward, 3. breaking up tracks using the mark function on minidisc easy as pie, and 4. I get to keep a pure copy on MD for archival.Basically with the cassette and minidisc walkmen, I can record cassettes to minidisc anywhere at anytime without need of a PC at all. All on battery power if need be. Now there are very few, and only VERY expensive, solid state handheld digital recorders that can manage that. And mp3 players, well, just forget it completely some of the tapes were very crap quality (very old), but I surprised myself with how well they cleaned up in Goldweave. Hiss removal was all it needed.MD Forever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonh Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 Hi Max. I agree that md can be very versatile. As a portable recording device it is second to none (that I'm aware of). To my mind, the only future that md has, is a future without Sony. I have been thinking about this for the last few days. Here are my thoughts:Ditch DRM entirely.Allow playback of all (semi) popular digital formats - mp3, vorbis, musepack, flac, wavpack, aac.Allow developers to create their own audio management software.In short, an open source effort. Rockbox for the minidisc. Why doesn't someone send them an email? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitdroidtech Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 Hi Max. I agree that md can be very versatile. As a portable recording device it is second to none (that I'm aware of). To my mind, the only future that md has, is a future without Sony. I have been thinking about this for the last few days. Here are my thoughts:Ditch DRM entirely.Allow playback of all (semi) popular digital formats - mp3, vorbis, musepack, flac, wavpack, aac.Allow developers to create their own audio management software.In short, an open source effort. Rockbox for the minidisc. Why doesn't someone send them an email?Maybe not "without Sony", it'd be great to see them continue to develop the hardware platform, and I also quite like SonicStage and also there are some advantages with the ATRAC codec. Infact I would like to see Sony keep developing SonicStage, including adding drive letter transfer support, since I have come to quite prefer it as my music library software, but I agree on principle the platform should be more open. Of course with true native mp3 support (drag and drop, like the latest Sony MP3 players) there would be no need for proprietary software at all: you could use WMP or any music library software you like for transferring music to the drive letter of your choice (even itunes, using third party options for drive letter support).DRM pretty much has been dropped entirely, from both hardware and Sonic Stage. Even Connect store is dead, and Sony BMG are walking away from DRM also. As to format support, MP3, AAC are bare minimum, ogg would be nice but as long as they maintain PCM then it's probably a pipe dream. Very few players support ogg natively. Realistically, Sony probably won't maintain ATRAC unless the Japanese market continues to support it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGHMW Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 MD Forever!Amen to that!ATRAC or DEATH!!!Hey guys, check out this thread on Head-Fi!!! They are finally paying a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T to our beloved format.... ahh the fools just don't know:http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f15/mourning...ni-disc-288681/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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