com; Website HHB Communications is a British-based firm specializing in digital audio recording equipment and media for the professional audio industry. In addition to CD recorders, HHB manufactures portable DAT recorders, a line of vacuum-tube processors (including mike preamps, compressors, and parametric equalizers), and studio monitor loudspeakers (including nearfield monitors and powered sub- woofers). HHB also distributes the Genex line of high bit rate, high sampling rate magneto-optical

2 CONTENTS PORTADISC MDP500 MiniDisc Recorder PORTADISC MDP500 MiniDisc Recorder INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Main Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 PRECAUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 SERVICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 TOP PANEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 FRONT PANEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .