Sony MZ-N707 Net MD Walkman Player/Recorder (Blue)

I THINK this new gadget is GREAT! It really works try it OUT

ITS GREAT

2002-07-07

I just bought this product, and I'm very pleased with it. Unlike a Mp3 player, it lets you store a lot of songs, and its better than a Cd-Mp3 player also. Its compact, but not the most compact (see Crutchfield.com for more), but its has a good price to quality ratio. Overall, I am pleased with the sound, the options, and the recording capability, but the included program is a downfall. I did read the reviews before I bought this product and expected them to be true, but I didnt' think my computer would be the same. My computer is a Windows XP Pro with a 60 GB hard drive with a Pentium III 1Ghz. Good enough, although its a year old. I installed the included program which promises transfers of 32x, (it does say up to) but the best I get is about 3 or 4 x. I'm not kidding. I'm tranferring songs as I'm typing now, and its taking about a minute or two per song for an mp3 file. So speed isn't a good part, but this player is great. And for those who are new in MiniDiscs, its a good product. It's in between a floppy and a cd, so you can think of it as a rewritable cd with recording capabilities. My main purpose was to record myself play an instrument and it serves my purpose well. It has great sound quality...

Unbelievable skip protection on the Net MD. On technical mountain bike trails cd players are out...completely (they are in a state of perpetual skip and you almost never hear even a note). I have been stuck with my old tape walkman for years as a result...until now.

The Net MD never skips even on a rocky trail with 3 foot dropoffs...I even wrecked and it didn't skip!

Despite some of the other reviews here, I have no complaints about the software, it works great.

The storage capacity on the mini discs at 5 hours (in lp4) seals the deal. The sound quality is great on lp4.

Now that I have the MD, I question why I ever even considered an mp3 player.

I got the MZ-N707 about a month ago, and I love it.
I'd considered getting an Mp3 player but [price] for 128MB is simply too expensive.
Here I can burn numerous disks with hours of music and get new disks for as low as [price] each. That's great!
There's no skipping like in Portable CD players.

I've done recordings on SP and LP2 and they are great.
Also dubbed all my old cassette tapes onto MD using the Line In.
It's great to be able to consolidate everything onto this minidisc player with great battery life.

Now concerning the software... I don't find it that bad, normally I don't make more than 1 or 2 recordings of my files so it's no big deal. OpenMG does crash every so often but not any more than my old win 95 machine used to crash. Plus all i have to do is restart OpenMG and it continues on from the point where it crashed. No big deal.

Overall highly recommend it as a MP3 player and personal recorder as well.

Well I think that this system is actually quite good. With it's 56 hours of battery life, and great Features inc. WMA,MP3,ARTRAC 3, WAV. These functions all means that this is compatable with mp3 but you just save it in your Blank Mini Disc. Although the slight downfall of this is quite small, is that the LCD remote control has no backlight, and should be the matching colour with the device it's self. But that,I think is what makes the minidisc player last longer because the backlight takes up 15% of the energy. So i still think that This minidisc player is really good and sounds better than anything on earth.So this is my personal rating
DEREK ******************************************************