I said goodybe to Minidisc after 15 years.....

[Arni99]

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 .

[Gawain]

I thought you loved the RH1!! 

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 

[Arni99]

I thought you loved the RH1!! 

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

[Gawain]

very strange indeed both units did the same and with different discs 

thanks for the pic, it's a very small unit!  but I better would have my mouth closed, now I want an R-09 

[Dede2002]

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 .

Arni,you're going to love it! 

[F.O.Bean]

its a shame that 15 years worth of recordings are not nearly as good as they could have been........damn mp3 lineage

welcome to the land of lossless

[bgalizio]

its a shame that 15 years worth of recordings are not nearly as good as they could have been........damn mp3 lineage

welcome to the land of lossless

That's ATRAC lineage, Bean!

Enjoy your new lossless recordings (and 24bit too!).

[Arni99]

its a shame that 15 years worth of recordings are not nearly as good as they could have been........damn mp3 lineage

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.

[nameloc01]

team MD will miss you.

[~sin213~]

its a shame that 15 years worth of recordings are not nearly as good as they could have been........damn mp3 lineage

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?   

[nameloc01]

its a shame that 15 years worth of recordings are not nearly as good as they could have been........damn mp3 lineage

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?)

[~sin213~]

its a shame that 15 years worth of recordings are not nearly as good as they could have been........damn mp3 lineage

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!

[nameloc01]

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.

[Arni99]

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.

[~sin213~]

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.