[sorry stream of conciousness.. should really have done all this in one post]

..and just remembered I have a Sony Pro Walkman WM-D6C
in a drawer or box somewhere in the house..

With the right combination of cassette tape, a good mic,
and careful level monitoring

I bet it could still fry the arse off any lossy minidisc recording.. !!!

oh and remind us, even if the RH1 mini disc was finally able to record lossless 16 bit
did sony copy restrictions ever allow lossless USB or spdif transfer
to a PC or any other storage media ???

That would have been a serious deal breaker for such an expensive bit of kit
back in 2006.


oh.. just remembered its 2011 and the affordable Zoom H1
has now rendered all our previous portable stealth recoring equipment
no matter how expensive or emotionally attached we are..

quite REDUNDANT