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I sold a ReVox B77 analog tape recorder in mint condition for roughly the same amount as the price of a MiniDisc recorder, stereo microphone, and a bunch of dis

I sold a ReVox B77 analog tape recorder in mint condition for roughly the same amount as the price of a MiniDisc recorder, stereo microphone, and a bunch of discs. I was never happier. The B77 was the cadillac of ATR's at the time, but it was massive, the tapes cost an arm and a leg, and the recordings still had to be transferred to a digital format in order to do anything with them. As a result, I rarely used it. The only annoyance was that I couldn't transfer recordings to my PC in a digital format -- thanks to copyright protection -- though I obviously owned the rights to my own recordings. Later, the MD recorder gave way to a digital recorder with memory cards and a USB port. But like everybody else, I loved the form factor and cleverness of the MD machine.

devilbunny 3y ago
> The only annoyance was that I couldn't transfer recordings to my PC in a digital format -- thanks to copyright protection -- though I obviously owned the rights to my own recordings. If it was recorded in analog, SCMS should not interfered with a digital copy, and on a PC it should been no issue at all. Slow, because real-time, but should have been near-perfect. Of course, if you used a few hacks and two critical pieces of merchandise (MDS-W1, the only one I know of that does lossless ATRAC transfers, plus another with the TOC-cloning hack), you could make essentially infinite perfect copies.
- analog31 3y ago
  True, the only real annoyance was the speed.