Folks, Thanx once again for the help, however i feel stupid. After all that. I found i had the cables connected to the "In" on my minidisc player rather than the "Out". Sigh..and i checked them 3 times... Now it all works great, save that's it's a little noisy, but acceptable. It just feels good to be getting this irreplaceable stuff on to a more permanent media. Thanx, Bearcat M. Sandor