Sony MZNH600D Hi-MD MiniDisc Walkman
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Customer Review: Can't beat Sony Sound Quality...this player Rocks...this is not a Trash.
Summary: 5 Stars
==Excellent Sound.
==Excellent Battery life.
==Excellent Look.
==Excellent Storage. 1 hi-md can store 1 gb of data, songs etc.
==Excellent New Software. Sonic stage software.
==Excellent MP3 palyer.
==NOT REALLY Excellent Headphones. Can buy new Sony Headphones starting from 9.99 at BestBuy.
Customer Review: Simply Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
Very easy to use, works great, nice small package that is light and easy to take with you while working out or whatever.
Easy to navigate, nice to have the 1GB storage, and is backwards with the cheaper smaller MD.
Big thimbs up!Customer Review: - A good value -
Summary: 4 Stars
I've owned this device for about two weeks now. Let me share my thoughts on it with you.
When I first opened the package and held the unit in my hand, I was impressed with how lightweight it was, and it's attractive look and design. The manual was clear and I learned the basics quickly. Here are few tips:
* If you didn't know, you can disable the annoying beep that plays with each press of a button. It's much more pleasant with it off.
* Create your own Custom EQ setting with the bars in a U shape. This is the perfect setting to use for Rock and Hip Hop music.
* I recommend setting your tracks to the 64 bit rate. It sounds almost identical to 128 bit and you'll have double the capacity for maybe a 10% sacrifice in quality.
* If you have Windows XP make sure you have all the critical updates or else the Sonicstage program may not work correctly.
This thing is so energy efficient. One rechargeable AA just lasts and lasts. I have it playing in my car for 2 hours on my commute and in my office 8 hours a day and the battery only needs charging twice a week. I've given it a good shaking and took it on a bumpy ride and I have yet to hear it miss a beat.
My nitpickings...
* The scroll wheel has too much resistance; I wish it turned more smoothly.
* From the moment you press the play button to when the song plays takes about twice as long as most CD and mp3 players. It's a difference of a few seconds so this is a small flaw.
* It would be nice if the LCD was backlit, but I don't use it much in darkness and it would take up more juice if it did, so no big deal.
* The Altrac format is a hassle and you'll need to spend a big chunk of time changing the format if you have a lot of MP3 tracks.
I was considering joining the iPOD craze, but it was well beyond my meager budget. You can purchase this MD player brand new on eBay for less than $100 which is only about 1/3 the price of a 20gb iPOD. Sure it would be nice to have all that capacity, but the way I see it, 1GB is much more music than I could ever listen to in one day, and switching discs once a day or less is fine with me. If you have a budget of 3 or 4 hundred, go for the iPOD. If you don't have the coin and want the best value, I recommend the MD walkman.
Customer Review: Lots of bang for the buck.
Summary: 4 Stars
I have had this unit for 2 weeks and love it. It comes with all of the features that last years higher net-md players came with, including EQ, remote output (no remote though) and easy to navigate mini joystick and jog dial. Its very convenient to have a player that accepts AA batteries, since there are alot of good high capacity cells in this size, unlike the gum-stick batteries which are rare, low capacity and become usless in less than a year. The playtime is good too, even on a rechargable. No skips either, even with really rough use.
First thing I did was go to Sony's Connect website and download the latest version of SonicStage. It installed perfectly, saving all of the play lists I have accumulated from my Net-MD Walkman which used SonicStage 1.0. It works great for ripping songs from CD; it's fairly fast. It has a CD info database that blows away Windows Media Player's, no matter how obscure the title.
I was able to fit all 200 CD's, over 2000 songs onto 4 HI-MDs and 2 80 minutes discs, one for each genre of music. They all fit neatly into a compact 5 disc case.
I plugged the remote that cane with my MZ-N10, and it works great. I can easily change play modes and skip tracks with it.
The problems I had are:
Ultra slow MP3 conversion; it takes SonicStage hours to convert a whole HI-MD disc worth of Mp3's.
No song export from HI-MD disc; if you try to transfer a song from the recorder to SonicStage it will erase the track from the recorder, and disappear from the music library, possibly to a temp folder some where. (Just checked, they did get exported but are in a folder called Optimized Files, not to the music library like where they were supposed to go.) The discs are hard to come by, I tried 3 vendors and all were out of the discs.
Bottom line this is one of the best minidisc platers out there, if you dont need anything too ultra high end. there are tons of models out there and it turns out one of the most basic is also the best, cant say anything bad about the player its self.
Follow - up: I upgraded to an RH10 minidisc player to replace this one, and it turns out that the MP3 cpability of the RH10 doent work for VBR's plus all of my gumstick batteries died, so I stopped using it. Im back to this one afterall due to its better batery option.
Customer Review: Minidisc vs Ipod
Summary: 4 Stars
UPDATE: So I finally went and bought it and luv it. I burn the songs at 132kbs tried 64 and it doesn't work for me. Everythings fine, if you read the review on c-net you would think this is a flawed product i think apple paid them to downplay this. This is a much better deal than an Ipod. It takes AA batteries no recharging and you don't have to worry about a hard drive crashing or being away and having nowhere to recharge. You might want to wait a month, sony is coming out with the second generation hi-md players in april and they support mp3 if that is important to you however I think they all use gumstick batteries (recharge required) instead of AA which is why i didn't wait and went for this. Oh yeah, sonic stage 3.0 is out and so far, no major problems (like constant crashing)...
I actually don't have the high MD player yet, I have the Net-MD minidisc player, had it since september and still use it on a daily basis. I don't use cd's anymore after getting this. I actually would like one of the hard disc players but before I drop 300+ dollars they are going to have to fix some issues that I have. It scares me when I hear stories of the hard drive freezing up and being rendered useless and me personally I hate anything that comes with the description "rechargable". What if I'm away for more than 14 or so hours and can't recharge? I'm stuck. With these minidisc players you just pop in a SINGLE AA battery and youre kool. With mine I change the battery maybe a little less than once every two weeks. I'm getting the Hi-md player next week because I just want to carry around one disc. I HATE SONIC-STAGE one day it works and another day it doesn't but Real Player works just fine. One thing glad about this is that it's powered by the USB cable. Oh yeah, I just performed a test. I ripped a song from cd directly to the player I own now and then transferred the mp3 version over to see if the double conversion from cd to mp3 to atrac was perceptible, if there is a difference it wasn't noticeable.