HiMD Unit SONY MZ-NH1
Minidisc SONY ES 74min
Headphones Sennheiser MX500 and SONY MDR-E888
Hardware (PC) CPU - Dual Xeon 2.4
RAM - 1GB RDRAM
SOUND - SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1
Software (PC) see Spectral View
Waveform View - Adobe Audition 1.5
CD Playing - Winamp 5.05
WAV Conversion - HiMD Renderer 0.31
Transfer to Hard Drive - SonicStage 2.3
Sound Volume Setting (while analogf/digital recoding): Main - 100%
WAV/MP3 - 100%
Winamp - 80%
MZ-NH1 - auto
CD information Artist - Dido
Album - No Angel
Song - Thank You (track #6)

I record the song, Dido-Thank You, with several different ways:
    1. Digital (optical) Recording in HiMD PCM
    2. Analog (from Headphone out from sound card) Recording in HiMD PCM
    3. Digital (optical) Recording in HiMD HiSP
    *4. SonicStage optimized file in HiMD HiSP
See Differences in Spectral View
*Note: I transferred the song from CD to minidisc with SonicStage and then put it back to hard drive from the minidisc. The file has gone from the minidisc and not shown on My Library either. I had to use optimized file for #4 HiMD HiSP.

Original CD

Digital Recording HiMD PCM
- Playing with Winamp 5.05 and optical digital-out from SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 to MZ-NH1 optical-in
- Recording in HiMD PCM mode
- Upload to hard drive from minidisc with SonicStage and then convert it to WAV with HiMD Renderer

Analog Recording HiMD PCM
- Playing CD with Winamp 5.05 and headphone-out from SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 to MZ-NH1 line-in
- Recording in HiMD PCM mode
- Upload to hard drive from minidisc with SonicStage and then convert it to WAV with HiMD Renderer

Digital Recording HiMD HiSP
- Playing CD with Winamp 5.05 and optical digital-out from SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 to MZ-NH1 optical-in
- Recording in HiMD HiSP mode
- Upload to hard drive from minidisc with SonicStage and then convert it to WAV with HiMD Renderer

Optimized File HiMD HiSP
- Rip it from CD to My Library of SonicStage and then convert it to WAV with HiMD Renderer

Comparing all waveform views