Amos - now I've followed your link I have another comment.

In my immediately previous post I'm talking about SPDIF - real time digital audio, which is what Dave Bryant also is referring to.

Amos' link is to a discussion about USB connections which is another type of digital link that lets you do rapid file transfers from PC to MD. It is true that the reverse transfer is not supported by most or all MD recorders, for no good technical reason - it's all to do with copyright paranoia.

Anahata