Loque Posted September 5, 2009 Report Share Posted September 5, 2009 Morning all, I have a Nakamichi MD Player in my car, which does not play Hi-MD Disks. This is fair enough as there isn't an in car Hi-MD player that exists, unfortunately. But this unit does not play regular MDs either, it lists the tracks, lists a timer as each track is played, but no noise come out. I thought this was an error with the unit (It is about 12 years old). This was until I recently purchased a Pioneer MD707 off ebay. Where the exact same thing happened. Except this time I get a message of 'No Audio' before the disk playing silently. This lead me to great confusion. Luckily enough I managed to borrow a few ancient Disks of a DJ of mine who had some things that he wanted me to listen to. Lo-and-behold, they worked seamlessly on both players. These disks were made in the mid nineties, and looking into it it seems they were made in MD-SP. I have been using my MZ-N510, which I believe to be an MD-LP Net MD recorder. Is there any way I can make this device record in SP format. Alternatively, what hardware do I need to create MDSP disks? And if anyone shouts RH-1 at me I might just shoot something. Much as I love minidiscs, and I am considering importing an Onkyo deck in the near future, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecrab Posted September 5, 2009 Report Share Posted September 5, 2009 Morning all, I have a Nakamichi MD Player in my car, which does not play Hi-MD Disks. This is fair enough as there isn't an in car Hi-MD player that exists, unfortunately. But this unit does not play regular MDs either, it lists the tracks, lists a timer as each track is played, but no noise come out. I thought this was an error with the unit (It is about 12 years old). This was until I recently purchased a Pioneer MD707 off ebay. Where the exact same thing happened. Except this time I get a message of 'No Audio' before the disk playing silently. This lead me to great confusion. Luckily enough I managed to borrow a few ancient Disks of a DJ of mine who had some things that he wanted me to listen to. Lo-and-behold, they worked seamlessly on both players. These disks were made in the mid nineties, and looking into it it seems they were made in MD-SP. I have been using my MZ-N510, which I believe to be an MD-LP Net MD recorder. Is there any way I can make this device record in SP format. Alternatively, what hardware do I need to create MDSP disks? And if anyone shouts RH-1 at me I might just shoot something. Much as I love minidiscs, and I am considering importing an Onkyo deck in the near future, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loque Posted September 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2009 I think you're right bluecrab. I don't know an awful lot about the Nak, other than it is the God of all In Car Entertainment. Even on an Aux Lead it's pretty much Aural Sex. But from what I can fathom it does seem to be MD-SP only, unfortunately. Your right on the Pioneer, I bought it for the princely sum of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted September 5, 2009 Report Share Posted September 5, 2009 Just remember that if you really want SP, sonicstage doesn't give it to you, unfortunately. You get "fake SP" which is LP2 padded by some blanks. Sony probably decided too much of a good thing was enough, or words to that effect. The only way to get SP is with the optical in on your unit, assuming you have something that generates optical out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loque Posted September 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2009 Incredibly useful bit of information that. I initially tried to do things through sonicstage, then as you said the only way to do it is through optical. Not a great problem in terms of possibility as my setup is full optical, but really, it's not practical. I'm experimenting with recording and track marking, but I'm not a fan of doing things this way, unfortunately it's a necessity for the Nak to run on MDSP due to the fact they didn't make Hi-MD head units, and I love playing minidiscs in the car a little too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strungup Posted September 5, 2009 Report Share Posted September 5, 2009 Find an MZ-R50 in good shape , and record real time , to make REALLY good MDSP discs . They will play on your Nak , ...... Nakamichi in his car ............. Jealousy abounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loque Posted September 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2009 Due to working, I haven't really found a great deal of time to play about with recording disks. I did however manage to record a couple of tracks onto a disc just to see if it worked, it does, much like a charm. I have to say *ducks and finds cover* That I have never used a minidisc to 'record' per-se, have literally just used it to play my songs. Hence why the experience is a little foreign and cumbersome to me. I guess it has it's advantages though - I'm having all kinds of problems with my new MP3 player not accepting M4A files. It's a shame because otherwise it's a great player on the audio quality front. But I digress, I did record a few tracks off a lossless rip from my mac last night, then shoved it in the Pioneer. It sounded excellent, so very much better than what normally comes out of my PC suprisingly enough. Yeah, the Nak is a relic from 2000 I believe, but it still looks (and, obviously works) like new. It's a complete joy to use as well, the jealousy is well founded More information it's one of these : http://www.nkmca.com/auto/minidisc/md_45z.htm From what I can tell the MZ R50 is rarer than hens teeth, and more expensive than diamonds, but I will keep an eye out for one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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