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MXD-D3 optical out mod

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Greetings all. I'm a brave soul. But I'm also a scared fool sometimes. I own myself a nice MXD-D3 deck (ya know, CD/MD player/recorder deck). Always nice to dump CD's right to MD's in 4X realtime. Whew. I love it.

Now, I also own myself a wonderful little player/recorder. MZ-R900. Japanese model. RIGHT before NetMD came out, I bought this guy. Anyways, I do a lot of recording on the little guy. I have a couple of good high-end mics that I borrow from my musician buddies. I've always just been dumping my audio from the deck to my computer via the analog outputs on the back (and the line in on my computer). Then I spice up the audio a bit (do some cleaning, getting rid of noise, hiss, all that) using proggies like CoolEdit or SoundForge.

I want to reduce the pain I have to go through. My computer has optical In's and Out's. So I want to dump my audio digitally from the deck. I bought an optical transmitter (Sharp's GP1F32T) and I thought, what the heck, I'll try to add the sucker in. I've done some modding projects to other things in the past (added a digital coaxial and optical input and output to a Laserdisc player, added a digital out to a puny little CD player, etc.). So I thought I could do this, no prob. Now, being a combo unit (CD and MD), this deck is a pain in the butt. I have the Service Manual and I've perused the documents on minidisc.org's construction projects section (great stuff), but I'm still not confident enough to try it. The connections seem very difficult to get to. Am I just being prissy? Is this possible? Anybody tried this?

Just curious. If you've got experience modding Minidisc decks, I'd like some info. Maybe you can help me out. I'd appreciate it.

Thanks all. Rock on Minidisc.

KPT

kpt@email.com

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