And generally, I am impressed.

I took the CD's along just in case and I have invested in adding the 4500 drawer unit to the Hd2500.

Couple of things:

Firstly, on occasions the search facility doesn't like working very quickly and will just bring up a line of hypens, despite me knowing that the spelling of the artiste ( or whatever) is correct. Go back up one level and re-type it in and it works. Silly annoying problem. Secondly, I haven't managed to master the playlist feature at all. It will come in time. Other than those silly things, I enjoyed working with it and I hope we will get to know each others quirks quickly.

Now. I use audiograbber to grab the tracks and I use 320 Kbps. My read and encode speed is very slow at about 4x. Is this normal computer guys? And whilst I am on, how do I rip a mastermix type "Grandmaster" (for example) continuos mix as one track? It seems to want to record it as individual tracks.

Answers on a post card.....

Over all though, pleased with the unit after one gig....lets try again tomorrow night!!!!!

Just a thought, if a continious mix was recorded as 'one track', can you not add specific cue points for each / desired part of the mix?
Probably a pain but if with the Denon it is possible, I'm sure the exact on-the-beat-point could be cued up or track allowed to play continious?

I'm glad that you're enjoying your DN-HD2500 Kingy - it's the way forward.

As for the hyphens, I doubt that you'll be seeing them by the end of this month.

Mastermix and similar long mixes should normally just rip as say, 40 odd tracks, which you could play by setting them up in order in a playlist with continuous play set on that deck. Alternatively you could call the artist Grandmaster, then number the tracks eg "70s mix #1", "70's mix #2" etc and then wen you search for "grandmaster" you should get a list of all the tracks in order, which will then play sequentially, without a playlist. (again, set the play mode to "Continuous")

I've noticed with mine occasionally it tries to imitate the bit in Rockafella skank where he slows the track down & there's that (for want of a better phrase) electronic judder, this is usually if I get a bit ahead of myself & press play before the track has loaded fully (so far this has only been down my headphones whilst cuing up a track, although it did do it once on relay play (right at the start of a gig with nobody in the room thankfully). Any ideas? Is my unit faulty, or is it just down to me being a bit ahead of myself?

Other than that no problems so far (we'll wait & see what happens this afternoon when I try to load the internal HD) other than the one Kingy mentioned, although I think again this could be down to me not checking that the cursor is on artist when I start typing. Just remembered I've also stopped the track that's playing on one or 2 occasions because I've forgotten which side of the unit the keyboard is switched to & inadvertently typed in an artist & hit enter.

Doesn't Audiograbber have a facility to rip a disc as one continuous track?

Interesting !!!...... my cortex does that as well ...although infrequently and as you say only if you press play too quickly

Any plans for it to support CUE files?

Thank You boys, any idea on the speed issue in audiograbber??

Also, Gary, how do I save a memo point? When I try to do it as I would have done on the 5000 or the 9000, it just says "cant save".

So many questions. Gary, you need an 0898 number......

At the moment you need both decks in pause mode to save memo points, I think this is one of the things being sorted in the next firmware update. Any news on the release date yet Gary?

Thanx Steve, will try it.

I've already got an 0898 number, but I'? guessing that you meant for DN-HD2500 related fun

Audiograbber rips for me at different speeds depending on which of my 4 cd-rom drives I point it at - they are 3 different makes/models so, I'm guessing the audiograbber pulls each drives DAE (digital audio extraction) capabilities/limits from each drive - the latest feature for hi-speed audio ripping seems to be acronymed as S.M.A.R.T. for good safe audio rips all done in the best possible taste way.

Audiograbber aso has a great feature which allows you to run multiple copies of itself, thereby allowing multiple cds to be ripped to (ideally) multiple internal hard drives - it speeds up the ripping process of CD collection to hard drives considerably.

The nearest that I can say for the firmware release for the DN-HD2500 is simply "June" - no exact date - but it'll be "Christmas come early" for owners as there are a great many things now included in the release - and it's not just firmware...

Whispers timidly behind hand:

"Are there any plans to fix Music Manager to run on Windows 9X, which it currently doesn't do??"

Appart from Noah, anyone still using win 9X??? LOL

Actually, I havent got a clue, as I am probably the most computer illiterate person on here!!

Not entirely sure about that DJ GJ ... S.M.A.R.T. only relates to hard disks, not to optical drives or integrity/performance of their digital audio extraction. Maybe you're thinking of the software product called Smart CD Ripper?

The full feature name of which I was refering to was "SMART-X" for fastest CD-DA data extraction speed (he said, reading it off the side of the box of the CD-ROM/writer he last installed. )

This problem has been presenting itself virtually every time I use relay play

But.............

I think I've found out what caused this mystery quirk (other than hitting play to quickly in single play mode) when using relay play.

I noticed my External HD was getting hot so I pointed a fan at it. Guess what? No stutter since 3pm today playing continuously in relay mode.

I was considering building a fan cooled filghtcase for my HDs anyway, looks like it's a good idea.

Keep your HDs cool guys.