While I don't hear a hiss in pause mode, i hear a hiss whenever the
backlight is on. I'm supposing that this is normal, since it happened on my
sharp 601, too.
Also, regarding the reliability of the F70: several of my friends and I own
this model. Of the three of us, two have the American model and one (me) has
one that was purchased in Hong Kong. Mine has broke twice: The optical
block gets misaligned and, while the discs play in the unit, they won't play
in any other unit. Fortunately, I've been able to fix it myself on both
occasions by opening it up and jiggling the block...I don't know why this
method works, but it does! On a side note, my friend used to have a
Panasonic mj7...he thought it was busted, so I bought it from him, performed
the jiggle technique, and viola! Fully functional md player for $20! Anyway,
my F70 broke a couple times and one of my friend's American model broke on
him, too. We don't rough-handle our recorders at all so, while I think the
F70 is one of the best models around, the quality of these things can be a
little suspect.
-John
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Woudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: MD: Re: Beeps and more...
> AFAIK you can turn the beep off on all Aiwas (at least from AM-F5
> onward). I recently played with an Aiwa AM-F70 and found it to be a
> fine little machine. We took it into a sound booth and listened for
> the occasionally reported "Aiwa hiss" in pause mode but heard nothing,
> it was dead quiet.
>
> Rick
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