Thanks for your reply, David. Don't understand the necessity for buying a very expensive mike. My computer is a Pentium II 300 mhz .
The specs page for the Sony Walkman minidisk says they require a 400 mhz computer. I am wondering if they mean that less will be slow, or if my low speed computer would not work with these players?
Are you sure the download goes BOTH ways? I doubt it, unless something new and cheap has come out recently.
The Sony Mini-disc owned by our school for class recording (I think its the MZN 1 or something, they call it the net mini disc, with a cradle and USB connector and software for PC only , not mac) only allows downloading MP3s FROM a PC TO the minidisc player, and absolutely NOT the reverse, according to Sony tech support. I discovered this much to my disgust when I recorded class projects and tried to make a CD. I had to use a stereo mini-phono plug to the sound card in my Mac, and made the transfer in real time.
The sound quality was not jeopardized, though I doubt I would try to sell the resulting CD. It beat cassettes hands down, no question. The mic I used was a Sony (sorry I don't know the number) that is stereo, designed to attach to video cameras, about the size of a half banana, and takes a battery that hasn't died yet after more than a year of heavy use. The specs are something like 40 hz to 15Khz, but it sounds terrific to me; great detail, quite sensitive, good imaging, etc. Excellent for class recordings, except, as I said, only real-time transfers through an audio cable are possible from the mini-disc.
-- Christopher
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