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Post subject: Re: MiniDiscs Posted: 24 Oct 2011, 15:23 |
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I could never find pre-recorded material but I did use MD for a while. Started with a great portable device: the MZR-50, sold it when a new version came out: the poorly designed MZR-55. Short battery life, bugged controls, glass screen that broke after a few days (badly mounted) and SONY took 3 months to fix it -- while not providing a replacement player. That kind of was the end of my MD life! Julien
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Post subject: Re: MiniDiscs Posted: 24 Oct 2011, 17:01 |
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admin wrote: I could never find pre-recorded material but I did use MD for a while. Started with a great portable device: the MZR-50, sold it when a new version came out: the poorly designed MZR-55. Short battery life, bugged controls, glass screen that broke after a few days (badly mounted) and SONY took 3 months to fix it -- while not providing a replacement player. That kind of was the end of my MD life! Julien heh, yet another reason for you to dislike Sony, no?
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Post subject: Re: MiniDiscs Posted: 24 Oct 2011, 17:30 |
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elahrairrah wrote: heh, yet another reason for you to dislike Sony, no? One of many! Julien
_________________ HARDWARE DATABASE HLD-X0/9 LD-S9 OPPO 105/205 SL-1200G LDD-1 MSC-4000 R2144 PONTUS II C45 MC257
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Post subject: Re: MiniDiscs Posted: 10 Nov 2011, 17:04 |
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Mini disc was and still is a great convenient recording format that I still enjoy. The disc encased in a durable cover does the trick for me. I have 2 x Players from the Sony ES range of which are built like tanks. I will never part with them. Regards to all
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Post subject: Re: MiniDiscs Posted: 17 Nov 2011, 11:03 |
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I first saw the format about 2 years ago went I was browsing though some new VHS tapes at the local bookfest. I bought it for 50 cents brand new. I also picked up some Zip disks and a SuperDisk but sadly no LD's. They had so many vintage VHS tapes there. 1000's of them.
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Post subject: Re: MiniDiscs Posted: 01 Dec 2011, 21:32 |
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Now this is interesting. I was perusing the different craigslistings for cities convenient to me. Found this listing . . . http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/ ... 69492.html. . . guy has this higher end MD Recording deck (Sony MDS-JB930), but he only used it as a DAC for his CD player! He mentions it as a Burr-Brown DAC, so I can only imagine it's one of the 20 or 24-bit B-B DAC's. If that's the case, that would put it in the same league as an overpriced Theta outboard DAC! Of course, there are probably other factors inside the Theta that make the latter better, but it's a pretty neat idea! I wouldn't have to use the MD deck this way though as my Pio Elite VSX-24TX has a 24-bit Burr-Brown DAC. Also Burr-Brown was acquired by Texas Instruments several years ago, so it's unlikely that they still put out the same level of DAC's anymore.
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Post subject: Re: MiniDiscs Posted: 06 Jan 2012, 10:41 |
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I started collecting Minidiscs (and players) a while ago ... When i was a lot younger i did bet on the other horse (don't know if it ever made outside of the netherlands) DCC (Digital Compact Cassette) Especially the first generations of MD's couldn't come close to the sound quality of DCC. Later on that changed however, and the instant access was imho why MD has won the race. Recently i purchased another player , the MD e25 from Sony, but it turned out that one of my siberian husky's is no fan of Digital music When the mailman delivered the envelope and tossed it into the hall , Skimo my youngest husky started chewing on the package.. by the time i came home he already destroyed several discs, chewed heavily on the headphones and luckily for me , this player was made from metal so after giving it a few dents he decided to go with the plastic items in the package But the player luckily enough still works, however its no longer in mint condition nowadays i own 2 minidisc decks and a handful of portable players, and also a box full of cassette walkmans ....
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Post subject: Re: MiniDiscs Posted: 06 Jan 2012, 17:16 |
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evil_ed wrote: I started collecting Minidiscs (and players) a while ago ... When i was a lot younger i did bet on the other horse (don't know if it ever made outside of the netherlands) DCC (Digital Compact Cassette) Especially the first generations of MD's couldn't come close to the sound quality of DCC. Later on that changed however, and the instant access was imho why MD has won the race. Recently i purchased another player , the MD e25 from Sony, but it turned out that one of my siberian husky's is no fan of Digital music When the mailman delivered the envelope and tossed it into the hall , Skimo my youngest husky started chewing on the package.. by the time i came home he already destroyed several discs, chewed heavily on the headphones and luckily for me , this player was made from metal so after giving it a few dents he decided to go with the plastic items in the package But the player luckily enough still works, however its no longer in mint condition nowadays i own 2 minidisc decks and a handful of portable players, and also a box full of cassette walkmans .... I mentioned DCC in the compact cassette (the analog type) thread in this sub forum. I still see them from time to time at trading shops, but I have never seen any type of DCC software--blank or pre-recorded. Always been curious about them, but never used them since I was a somewhat early adopter of MD. When they were both on the market, I was in Japan and DCC was pretty much nonexistent in that country. So the only digital recording options I had at the time were DAT and MD really (and MDs were much cheaper!)
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Post subject: Re: MiniDiscs Posted: 07 Jan 2012, 00:22 |
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I have a bag of tapes over here , empty, sealed and pre-recorded. If you ever are willing and able to buy one, i will gladly send you a tape ...
by the way , back then i did a lot of experimenting and some brands of tapes were good enough to be used for the dcc deck.
Took some skills to drill several dents in the housing without piercing it, but after the first 50 i became a master in creating dcc accepted tapes for 25% of the cost.
the quality is really amazing, and what made it even more valuable was the backwards compatibility ...
But hey the best system does not always win as history teaches us over and over again...
cheers
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