Thanks for your reassuring answer
I don't record nearly as much shows a year, maybe less than half. Well, I'll try to be careful with it anyway, so hopefully it will last a few more years
And the sound you'll get, and the uploading convenience, are so vastly superior to MD that you will be kicking yourself that you didn't get it sooner.
Well, the uploading convenience is there, but the sound, though I suppose it's superior, since it's uncompressed linear PCM, instead of ATRAC, and the preamp is supposed to be good, I still haven't been able to experience it. I recorded a folk jam session a few days ago just to test it out, and the recording resulted with slight clipping. I used manual recording, low sensitivity, no limiter nor low-cut, and the level dial on 5, using built in mics. I suppose I should have used a lower setting, but this was a small group of people playing acoustic instruments in a pub, not a loud rock concert! I'll try on 2.5 next time.
I remember that with my Sharp MT-88 (+ Sony ECM-DS70P mic) I could record just about anything without caring about settings, be it folk or heavy metal. It could even record with no problem some inhumanly loud concert a few years back
Meanwhile, if you want to buy some blank minidiscs, like dozens or hundreds, please PM me.
Minidiscs? Where we're going we don't need minidiscs!
(hopefully)