re. recording peel

[christone@...]

After years of messing about with cassette tapes, I bought a 
portable MiniDisc, a hifi recorder that is small enough to 
sit in the palm of your hand.  It's a great solution.  I 
bought a Sony:- 

- I connect it to my hifi amp in the same way as I used to 
connect my cassette recorder
- I set it to LP2, meaning that a single disc will record for 
something like 2.5 hours 
- I press the 'go' button at five minutes to ten, and cancel 
the hifi speakers..... and go to bed!

It records and then turns itself off without further 
attention.  

Quality is much better than those hopeless old cassettes, and 
approaches CD - though MiniDisc _does_ use data compression.  

The editing facilities are excellent - mark and keep the 
songs you like, bin the rest, and there's still room on the 
disc for another few days' worth.  Jump from marked track to 
marked track like on a CD player.  Maybe go back and review 
your selections, keeping some, binning others, burning some 
to a CDROM if you like (whoops, tsssk, etc)......  Or simply 
delete the entire disc and start again (they are said to last 
indefinitely, though I find that the mechanical wear and tear 
factor sometimes - sometimes - comes into play with well-used 
discs).  

I play it back through my home stereo, via the CD-IN jack on 
my car system, on headphones on the bus, on other peoples' 
systems, wherever...

My old Yamaha cassette recorder has been consigned to 
the 'old technology' stack.  That stuff dates from the 
1960s....there is absolutely no comparison with the new 
digital recording stuff, which wins hands down every time, 
believe me.  

Firmly recommended

H