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Title: I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....
Post by: Arni99 on June 16, 2007, 11:39:37 AM
and sold my 2 MZ-RH1 1 hour ago for 500 euros to a german guy.
purchased a red r-09 today with 2x 4GB SD(HC) cards from SANDISK.
here a pic of my gear with the 12V-keychain SP-SPSB-9 bbox, which is actually smaller than my real car-remote-control.

several 1-3 days festival are pending and the rechargeable batteries+ the edirol seem to be the perfect setup for this intention.

of course I won´t tape with the bbox on the keychain ;).

(http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/6443/myrigwithspspb912vbboxogw4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....
Post by: Gawain on June 16, 2007, 02:30:44 PM
I thought you loved the RH1!!  ;D

enjoy the new toy and good luck at the festival  :)

the R-09 looks vey small, i thought it was a bit bigger! (never took the trouble or had the curiosity to look for the exact size). How does it compare with the iriver? if you could post a pic one day with both would be nice  :)
Title: Re: I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....
Post by: Arni99 on June 16, 2007, 02:35:58 PM
I thought you loved the RH1!!  ;D

enjoy the new toy and good luck at the festival  :)

the R-09 looks vey small, i thought it was a bit bigger! (never took the trouble or had the curiosity to look for the exact size). How does it compare with the iriver? if you could post a pic one day with both would be nice  :)
the RH1 is cool, but there was a strange behaviour on BOTH of my new RH1s:
when recording in PCM format, lots of recording errors occured no matter if i used new HI-MDs or used ones.
tried it with different discs.....
and as I don´t wanna loose 1 single recording i decided to go for the edirol again.

here a pic: MZ-RH1/iriver H140/Edirol R-09
(http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/1904/cimg0662zx5.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....
Post by: Gawain on June 16, 2007, 03:01:31 PM
very strange indeed both units did the same and with different discs  :o

thanks for the pic, it's a very small unit!  :) but I better would have my mouth closed, now I want an R-09  ;D
Title: Re: I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....
Post by: Dede2002 on June 16, 2007, 05:07:27 PM
and sold my 2 MZ-RH1 1 hour ago for 500 euros to a german guy.
purchased a red r-09 today with 2x 4GB SD(HC) cards from SANDISK.
here a pic of my gear with the 12V-keychain SP-SPSB-9 bbox, which is actually smaller than my real car-remote-control.

several 1-3 days festival are pending and the rechargeable batteries+ the edirol seem to be the perfect setup for this intention.

of course I won´t tape with the bbox on the keychain ;).

(http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/6443/myrigwithspspb912vbboxogw4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)


Arni,you're going to love it!  ;)
Title: Re: I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....
Post by: F.O.Bean on June 16, 2007, 10:02:56 PM
its a shame that 15 years worth of recordings are not nearly as good as they could have been........damn mp3 lineage :P

welcome to the land of lossless :)
Title: Re: I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....
Post by: bgalizio on June 16, 2007, 10:48:54 PM
its a shame that 15 years worth of recordings are not nearly as good as they could have been........damn mp3 lineage :P

welcome to the land of lossless :)

That's ATRAC lineage, Bean! :)

Enjoy your new lossless recordings (and 24bit too!).
Title: Re: I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....
Post by: Arni99 on June 17, 2007, 12:42:56 AM
its a shame that 15 years worth of recordings are not nearly as good as they could have been........damn mp3 lineage :P

welcome to the land of lossless :)

That's ATRAC lineage, Bean! :)

Enjoy your new lossless recordings (and 24bit too!).
HI-MD can make lossless recordings(16bit 44,1kHz) but only 94min55seconds per 1 HI-MD. And as I said before, HI-SP recordings where ok, but WAV recordings made problems on BOTH of my new MZ-RH1s...maybe all my HI-MDs were from a bad batch.
Title: Re: I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....
Post by: nameloc01 on June 20, 2007, 05:21:55 PM
team MD will miss you. :P
Title: Re: I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....
Post by: ~sin213~ on June 20, 2007, 07:13:45 PM
its a shame that 15 years worth of recordings are not nearly as good as they could have been........damn mp3 lineage :P

welcome to the land of lossless :)

That's ATRAC lineage, Bean! :)

Enjoy your new lossless recordings (and 24bit too!).
HI-MD can make lossless recordings(16bit 44,1kHz) but only 94min55seconds per 1 HI-MD. And as I said before, HI-SP recordings where ok, but WAV recordings made problems on BOTH of my new MZ-RH1s...maybe all my HI-MDs were from a bad batch.

It's interesting that you say that the discs may be "from a bad batch."  Can that happen??  I just had an Access Read Error on my HiMD yesterday AND the day before...I thought it might be the recorder.  But all the discs I had used were from a new box of discs...is it possible the WHOLE box is bad??

And if it is my HiMD that is the problem, is there a way to give it a "tune up"?  Clean the inside, adjust any lasers and whatnot, etc...

I now do not trust my recorder and don't want that...I have been thinking about upgrading as well...but I like my HiMD.

What do you all think?   ???
Title: Re: I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....
Post by: nameloc01 on June 20, 2007, 08:07:23 PM
its a shame that 15 years worth of recordings are not nearly as good as they could have been........damn mp3 lineage :P

welcome to the land of lossless :)

That's ATRAC lineage, Bean! :)

Enjoy your new lossless recordings (and 24bit too!).
HI-MD can make lossless recordings(16bit 44,1kHz) but only 94min55seconds per 1 HI-MD. And as I said before, HI-SP recordings where ok, but WAV recordings made problems on BOTH of my new MZ-RH1s...maybe all my HI-MDs were from a bad batch.

It's interesting that you say that the discs may be "from a bad batch."  Can that happen??  I just had an Access Read Error on my HiMD yesterday AND the day before...I thought it might be the recorder.  But all the discs I had used were from a new box of discs...is it possible the WHOLE box is bad??

And if it is my HiMD that is the problem, is there a way to give it a "tune up"?  Clean the inside, adjust any lasers and whatnot, etc...

I now do not trust my recorder and don't want that...I have been thinking about upgrading as well...but I like my HiMD.

What do you all think?   ???
i had a blank once do a couple of goofey things,on both of my hi-mds.just that one blank,that was the first and the last time.i'd definitely try a few other mds. curious... were they the "standard ' sony hi- mds ( blue discs in a kinda clear square case..., or the black discs in the rectangular shaped black case?)
Title: Re: I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....
Post by: ~sin213~ on June 20, 2007, 10:31:36 PM
its a shame that 15 years worth of recordings are not nearly as good as they could have been........damn mp3 lineage :P

welcome to the land of lossless :)

That's ATRAC lineage, Bean! :)

Enjoy your new lossless recordings (and 24bit too!).
HI-MD can make lossless recordings(16bit 44,1kHz) but only 94min55seconds per 1 HI-MD. And as I said before, HI-SP recordings where ok, but WAV recordings made problems on BOTH of my new MZ-RH1s...maybe all my HI-MDs were from a bad batch.

It's interesting that you say that the discs may be "from a bad batch."  Can that happen??  I just had an Access Read Error on my HiMD yesterday AND the day before...I thought it might be the recorder.  But all the discs I had used were from a new box of discs...is it possible the WHOLE box is bad??

And if it is my HiMD that is the problem, is there a way to give it a "tune up"?  Clean the inside, adjust any lasers and whatnot, etc...

I now do not trust my recorder and don't want that...I have been thinking about upgrading as well...but I like my HiMD.

What do you all think?   ???
i had a blank once do a couple of goofey things,on both of my hi-mds.just that one blank,that was the first and the last time.i'd definitely try a few other mds. curious... were they the "standard ' sony hi- mds ( blue discs in a kinda clear square case..., or the black discs in the rectangular shaped black case?)
The standard blue ones...I bought 3 5-packs off eBay - the first pack, no problems - this second pack, 3 of the 5 that I have tried using give me access errors.  If it was just one disc, I would think it is the disc, but 3 out of 5?  I can't hardly believe that...

I do have an unopened pack, so I will try a new disc out of that pack and see if it still happens...

And what about tuning up a HiMD deck?  If I wanted to clean it or adjust the laser/writer (whatever writes to the disc), etc...is that possible?  And a friend of mine has one as well and he keeps having issues with one channel cutting in and out...so really, we are both in need of a repairman or a thread that could help us learn how to maintain a HiMD deck.

Any help is appreciated!!  Thanx!
Title: Re: I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....
Post by: nameloc01 on June 20, 2007, 11:43:34 PM
i shouldnt even be writing this ::), but other than that one time, i have never had any problems what so ever.so i am really not sure what to tell you,other than have it looked at or replaced if it is under warranty.very strange though.
Title: Re: I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....
Post by: Arni99 on June 21, 2007, 04:31:23 AM
mine were also the blue SONY HI-MDs fresh out of the box and the RH1 was also fresh out of the package, so I guess it MUST have been a bad series of SONY HI-MDs.
Title: Re: I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....
Post by: ~sin213~ on June 27, 2007, 06:26:37 PM
Just a little info...it was the box of discs!  Wow...all 5 bad.

I opened a new box and recorded the other night at Les Claypool and it worked perfectly without any issues.  Guess I'm tossing out a whole box!  Sucks...

Thanx goodness it wasn't my recorder though.   ;D