Sony MZ-RH910 Personal MiniDisc Player
- Recordable: Recordable
- Headphones: Yes
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A perfect device for musicians
Pros
Storage, music formats, recording capabilities, cost, sound quality
Cons
Sound level, software, copyright restrictions
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
It may satisfy those who wanted a mp3 but it is perfect for people the want to record their own music and concerts.
This Sony device is perfect for people they want to record music from analog sources (consider musicians). I bought t from pixmania.com for 194 Euro (28 Jully 2005). You can combine the recorder with a microphone (I bought also one from pixmania - the Sony ECM-719 for 79 Euro) in order to record demos, practice sessions, concerts etc in nice digital stereo sound.
This device also is for people they want a music player in order to hear music. You can transfer music into the device with different manners: MP3/CD/WAV/ASF via the usb port, or with the audio input (optical and analog). You may use several utilities to your PC (supplied with the device) in order to transfer your MP3 or to extract tracks from CDs and transfer them to the MD.
HiMD have a capacity of 1 Gb, this space may be used to transfer computer files (every computer can communicate with this device with the common "mass storage device" driver), or to store music with several levels of compression (Linear PCM - no compression at all, ATRAC - Sony proprietary compression algorithm and ordinary mp3). With the Hi-SP ATRAC setting of the compression, this device may store about 7+ hours of music of very good quality.
Recording with microphone is better than I excepted. Vu meters are included and the recording level may be adjusted automatically or manually. The auto setting seems to working OK without sudden sinks and clips (as it happens to older MD devices of Sony). The PCM quality is superb and worth the storage space it consumes, although you may use the Hi-SP setting to record a long-last live concert. Recordings can be transfered to your Computer using the USB interface, then you can convert them to WAVs in order to burn CDs, make mp3s etc.
PROS
* Very good recording quality if you combine this device with a good microphone (The ECM-719 I have tested gives good quality). Manual setting is good for serious recordings as well the capability to use Linear-PCM. Recordings can be transfered to your computer, then they can be converted to ordinary WAV. The PCM capability makes the device a low-cost DAT alternative
* Plenty of data and music storage on inexpensive Hi-MD (10 Euro each from pixmania, 6.4 Euro from local stores).
* Supports many music formats, can be used also as a mp3 player as well.
* Very competitive price by comparing with mp3 devices (consider i.e. Apple) that they do not offer recording capabilities and removable inexpensive storage
* Easy extraction and transfers from AudioCDs to the MD with software operations
* Small size and weight.
CONS
* The headphones level is not so loud I've wanted to, comparing to my 10 years old Diskman
* Included headphones are of bad quality with short cable.
* Battery life is a problem when you use the "Quick start" (default) setting. I propose to deactivate this setting as it drains your batteries!
* Proprietary bundled computer software and only Windows compatible. Linux users may be disappointed.
* Software operations are sometimes ambiguous. The user interface is too "heavy" and slow when you browse to music files stored in your hard disk.
* You cannot hear the data files like wav or mp3 stored by the mass storage driver. You have to transfer them with the SonicStage software (this is not a big problem for me).
* The copyright restrictions sucks! Luckily they do not apply to your own recordings (this was also happens to older Sony models!).
This device also is for people they want a music player in order to hear music. You can transfer music into the device with different manners: MP3/CD/WAV/ASF via the usb port, or with the audio input (optical and analog). You may use several utilities to your PC (supplied with the device) in order to transfer your MP3 or to extract tracks from CDs and transfer them to the MD.
HiMD have a capacity of 1 Gb, this space may be used to transfer computer files (every computer can communicate with this device with the common "mass storage device" driver), or to store music with several levels of compression (Linear PCM - no compression at all, ATRAC - Sony proprietary compression algorithm and ordinary mp3). With the Hi-SP ATRAC setting of the compression, this device may store about 7+ hours of music of very good quality.
Recording with microphone is better than I excepted. Vu meters are included and the recording level may be adjusted automatically or manually. The auto setting seems to working OK without sudden sinks and clips (as it happens to older MD devices of Sony). The PCM quality is superb and worth the storage space it consumes, although you may use the Hi-SP setting to record a long-last live concert. Recordings can be transfered to your Computer using the USB interface, then you can convert them to WAVs in order to burn CDs, make mp3s etc.
PROS
* Very good recording quality if you combine this device with a good microphone (The ECM-719 I have tested gives good quality). Manual setting is good for serious recordings as well the capability to use Linear-PCM. Recordings can be transfered to your computer, then they can be converted to ordinary WAV. The PCM capability makes the device a low-cost DAT alternative
* Plenty of data and music storage on inexpensive Hi-MD (10 Euro each from pixmania, 6.4 Euro from local stores).
* Supports many music formats, can be used also as a mp3 player as well.
* Very competitive price by comparing with mp3 devices (consider i.e. Apple) that they do not offer recording capabilities and removable inexpensive storage
* Easy extraction and transfers from AudioCDs to the MD with software operations
* Small size and weight.
CONS
* The headphones level is not so loud I've wanted to, comparing to my 10 years old Diskman
* Included headphones are of bad quality with short cable.
* Battery life is a problem when you use the "Quick start" (default) setting. I propose to deactivate this setting as it drains your batteries!
* Proprietary bundled computer software and only Windows compatible. Linux users may be disappointed.
* Software operations are sometimes ambiguous. The user interface is too "heavy" and slow when you browse to music files stored in your hard disk.
* You cannot hear the data files like wav or mp3 stored by the mass storage driver. You have to transfer them with the SonicStage software (this is not a big problem for me).
* The copyright restrictions sucks! Luckily they do not apply to your own recordings (this was also happens to older Sony models!).
