RH1 Dead? Sorry Wrong Alert!

[peare]

I hardly used my RH1. Transfered my old recordings to PC... and I hadnt been using it for more than a year. Last week I wanted to make a live recording, but there were this noise coming from it. I stopped it and inserted another MD thinking there may be a problem with the disc. Then with other discs it started to report read error. I connected it to my PC and it managed to read some of the discs, but with a nasty noise coming out of it. Today I tried again (Ihad taken the battery out for a week) with a fresh 1Gb MD... and no hope. It tries, there is this sound of the head with some rattling noise. What do I do? I am really surprised to see it broken like that with so little use. I had many MD recorders/players, Sony, Sharp, Aiwa... some of them stopped working after 4-5 years of heavy use. What is wrong with this one?

Update: After trying some 6-7 minutes it managed to read an old 1Gb disc, but Sonicstage says, I have to reinitialize this disc because it was recorded by some other software, haha! It went really crazy this time. Windows explorer opens the folder, there is stuff transfered 2 years ago. I took off the disc and inserted into my Onkyo deck, it works. Now reinserted again into the RH1.... its been 4 minutes, and still waiting. I ordered another RH1 to Minidisco, at least I will have spare parts for the years to come. I invested too much on MD, hundreds of discs, decks, etc. I am not giving up yet.

Edited May 28, 2008 by peare

[peare]

I am now using my old NH1... God this one is slow! I had forgotten how slow it was. I will transfer all my music on my computers, will deplete all my virgin MD's and I will say goodbye to transfering to MD's. I will only use it for live recordings. I suddenly realized that I was not carrying MD anymore. Mostly using Cowon D2 or Archos 605 instead. And YES I confess I also have a Iphone... couldnt resist. Even though I am a Mac hater!

Edited May 28, 2008 by peare

[peare]

I thought since it was sitting on a bookshelf for more than a year, and since compared to previous models the inside of the unit was quite vulnerable to dust (you can see the battery), I just gave it a heavy blow, now the noise is gone and it reads every MD. The 2d unit already came to my US adress. My ignorance cost me $329. Anyway I wont use the 2d one until this one really dies on me. I am happy as a puppy! BTW I will clean the lazer head, do we do it as we clean a CD player?

[Strungup]

Well I am a MAC owner , but DO NOT own the iPhone , ( the solar powered stuff APPLE just applied for patents over though might get my attention .

MD lens cleaners can be unsafe unless you use a very good one , do not buy a Cheap off brand one or DRY type .

Use a wet type MD Lens/Head Cleaner that comes with a little bottle of it own stuff , Audio Technica , or Teac would be ok . I have one myself

[srizvi1]

wow, I never thought to get an MD cleaner ever. I dont use my unit very often (only every now and then to record important stand up events). I'll keep this in mind though

[peare]

I never cleaned any MD (deck, player, recorder) I owned in the past, but when you encounter such a problem with an almost none used unit you start to think. OK my den is a messy one. My wife refuses to enter unless I let the cleaning lady first. I am starting to get suspicious about my beautiful Sharp ST501 which I deserted 5 years ago, now sitting in one of my drawers. I'll see if blowing resolves its read error problems. I think not, and I've already lost its remote anyway.