MD to PC - maximum quality

[julian_leask]

Hi

I finally have a MZ-RH1 to transfer my minidiscs to PC. I want the best quality for this - am I right in thinking that I should go do "Transfer Mode Settings" in SonicStage and select 352 kbps ? HDD space isn't an issue - I'm after quality.

Thanks

Julian

[sfbp]

That won't affect *anything* you care about. It's for exports and/or conversions.

You have two choices on upload (to be found if you poke around the advanced "import settings")

a. is 256kbps (Hi-SP)

b. is LPCM (1411 kbps).

(I assumed you are looking at legacy MD's, not HiMD, else you would not have a problem at all).

Also you can choose to immediately make a wav file and specify the directory where all such conversions will be automatically dumped.

A small word of warning, before you blindly choose LPCM. The LPCM files are not much use to anything. Even if you decrypt them, they cannot be edited by the only known editor for these types of files (.oma), Sound Forge 9 (and presumably I would hope, later versions).

In addition, when you go to linear PCM, you actually lose on the dynamic range of MD, which is inherently 24-bits (LPCM is of course 16). So you will have to try out different things. For editing, you may actually be better to go to HiSP.

Also the latest news is that there will be a way to upload and keep SP, on your hard disk. This is probably the best option of all, except that there won't for the foreseeable future be an editor (since Sony never allowed for 292kbps tracks on the computer).

Please search or google about the File Conversion Tool. Unless you go directly to wav, the FCT is the only way to stop your tracks being gobbled up by the first System Restore or Windows upgrade/reformat that happens to your hard disk.

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