Sharp MD-MT280E Personal MiniDisc Player
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- Recordable: Recordable
- Headphones: Yes
- Remote Control: Yes
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Just what I needed
Pros
Far better quality microphone recording than a more expensive up-market cassette Sony Walkman.
Cons
For the price (or even double), absolutely nothing.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
If you want a straightforward, no-nonsense MD recorder for live events, it will do the job as well as your microphone allows.
Here is a little story which illustrates my point...
I promised to record a family funeral so that absent relatives could listen to the service and speeches. The evening before, I found that I could not use my partner's recording walkman which I had successfully used before to record another family funeral.
At a pinch I could have used my bulky portable radio-cassette, but instead I decided to buy a MiniDisc recorder, as I already have an MD recorder in my hi-fi and a player in my car (I can't understand why people think in-car CD players are so neat when 10 years ago you could have an in-car MD player instead - the discs are much easier to store and more durable and you could make your own very easily, without a PC - unfortunately most people are not very logical and not very clever, the marketing industry's raison d'etre).
Back to the matter in hand. I had to be at the funeral at 11:15 to go in first to place the recorder. I researched MD recorders the night before, realised a lot of them had no microphone input and were expensive (#150+). I decided my best bet was Richer Sounds, who had various models on offer. So I went into town the morning of the funeral, found that Richer didn't open until 10am so, trying not to panic, I trotted off around the high street shops looking for anything suitable. No joy, so I returned to Richer at 10, made eye contact with a salesman as soon as the shutter was half way up and within 10 minutes had purchased the last-remaining shop-soiled MD-MT280E and an electret microphone. No instructions. Total cost 70+30 = #100.
My partner drove us to the funeral while I unpacked and tried out the recorder, found that it did what it said on the packet and was very relieved. Insert battery (1xAA), plug in mic, press record, then play, up or down for the record level (even has a meter). I blu-tacked the recorder to the lectern and just over an hour from the time of purchase I was recording Harold's funeral service in hi-fi quality, now safely transferred to CD for the absent mourners and posterity.
I promised to record a family funeral so that absent relatives could listen to the service and speeches. The evening before, I found that I could not use my partner's recording walkman which I had successfully used before to record another family funeral.
At a pinch I could have used my bulky portable radio-cassette, but instead I decided to buy a MiniDisc recorder, as I already have an MD recorder in my hi-fi and a player in my car (I can't understand why people think in-car CD players are so neat when 10 years ago you could have an in-car MD player instead - the discs are much easier to store and more durable and you could make your own very easily, without a PC - unfortunately most people are not very logical and not very clever, the marketing industry's raison d'etre).
Back to the matter in hand. I had to be at the funeral at 11:15 to go in first to place the recorder. I researched MD recorders the night before, realised a lot of them had no microphone input and were expensive (#150+). I decided my best bet was Richer Sounds, who had various models on offer. So I went into town the morning of the funeral, found that Richer didn't open until 10am so, trying not to panic, I trotted off around the high street shops looking for anything suitable. No joy, so I returned to Richer at 10, made eye contact with a salesman as soon as the shutter was half way up and within 10 minutes had purchased the last-remaining shop-soiled MD-MT280E and an electret microphone. No instructions. Total cost 70+30 = #100.
My partner drove us to the funeral while I unpacked and tried out the recorder, found that it did what it said on the packet and was very relieved. Insert battery (1xAA), plug in mic, press record, then play, up or down for the record level (even has a meter). I blu-tacked the recorder to the lectern and just over an hour from the time of purchase I was recording Harold's funeral service in hi-fi quality, now safely transferred to CD for the absent mourners and posterity.
