Re: MiniDisk

[Todd Pafford <galen@erols.com>]

I'll agree regarding home decks.  Most have analog and digital (optical) 
ins 
along with analog and digital (optical) outs.  However, don't get too 
excited 
about a digital copy from a CD to an MD.  There's all sorts of conversions 
done in addition to the MD compression to kill that idea.  Still I get 
great 
sound from both analog & digital ins on my Sonly MDS-JE510.

Regarding portables, my Sonly MZ-R700 (a very common model on the street 
these days) has a line in that'll accept both an analog signal and an 
optical 
one...very cool.  Also, there's a stereo mic input that is certainly 
analog 
and probably does not accept an optical signal (I'd have to dig out the 
manual.)  Most portables I've seen, however, do not have any sort of 
digital 
output.  No big deal if you've also got a deck at home, but something to 
consider.

Hope this helps,
Todd Pafford


On Wed, 07 Nov 2001, Tim Nelson wrote:
> As far as I know, ALL the home decks have analog ins (the RCA jacks) and
> only some of them have additional optical ins. I can't generalize about 
>the
> portable recorders as I don't own one, but I'd assume the mic ins on 
>those
> are analog as well.
>
> Again, <http://www.minidisc.org/> should lead you to answers to all these
> questions and more.
>
> -t-
>
> At 11:17 AM 11/7/01 +0100, you wrote:
> >Are there any MiniDisk recorders that have analogue input also ?
> >...anyway... just curious.