Anthony Posted October 18, 2014 Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 It's been a long time since I posted on this forum but I can't control my excitement. I just forked out €200 for a used MZ-RH1. It's a lot of money but given some of the crazy prices on ebay I reckon I did OK. It's immaculate and working perfectly, the OLED is also nice and bright. The seller said it was barely used and I'm inclined to believe her. As a bonus the eight yr old battery appears to be holding charge very well. SonicStage is up and running with the 64bit NetMD Driver. I transferred a few music files (MP3@320) in MD mode to play on my JE-440 but I have to admit they don't sound as good as a direct CD Digital to Digital or Vinyl/RCA copy. In any case I won't be using it for music transfer. This is almost purely to add to my "vintage" collection although it will get some occasional use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted October 18, 2014 Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 Well done! The major utility of this rather nice device (despite its generally poor physical presentation/build quality) is in UPloading (MD -> computer).As you are running 64-bits, you should have no problem making other NetMD devices (from your collection) install using THE SAME driver, which is what I'd recommend - use them rather than the RH1 for writing MDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted October 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 Well done! The major utility of this rather nice device (despite its generally poor physical presentation/build quality) is in UPloading (MD -> computer). Totally Agree. Up to now I had no way to make "usable" digital copies of vinyl. Also agree on the build quality, my earliest player, the MZ-R30, is built like a tank compared to the RH1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted October 18, 2014 Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 Totally Agree. Up to now I had no way to make "usable" digital copies of vinyl.That was never actually true, at least for me. I started making recordings of vinyl to MD in 2001 with an MDS-JE510, the only deck I owned that ever went completely belly up.From the 510's optical output I had a weird and wonderful optical->coax converter made by some Turkish fellow in Germany, and then convinced my sound card's input to record from that coax input.Subsequently I bought a series of optical-in (and -out) sound cards. Caveat Emptor, however, since at least 2 that I bought never had the software to actually read optical into the computer at all.The optical sound cards permitted the transfer of those MD recordings to 16-bit WAV files on the PC, which I then edited with CoolEdit (later it became Adobe Audition and cost hundreds of dollars instead of the original 60). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trott3r Posted October 18, 2014 Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 Lo, That was never actually true, at least for me. I started making recordings of vinyl to MD in 2001 with an MDS-JE510, the only deck I owned that ever went completely belly up. From the 510's optical output I had a weird and wonderful optical->coax converter made by some Turkish fellow in Germany, and then convinced my sound card's input to record from that coax input. Subsequently I bought a series of optical-in (and -out) sound cards. Caveat Emptor, however, since at least 2 that I bought never had the software to actually read optical into the computer at all. The optical sound cards permitted the transfer of those MD recordings to 16-bit WAV files on the PC, which I then edited with CoolEdit (later it became Adobe Audition and cost hundreds of dollars instead of the original 60). Why do you ouput the 510s recordings via optical into you PC? Would it not be better to use an RH1 to transfer them to sonicstage? I use my 555es to record my vinyl after starting originally with a 920 Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted October 18, 2014 Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 At the time, there WAS no RH1. Now, that's exactly what I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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