Sony MZ-G755 Personal MiniDisc Player
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- Recordable: Recordable
- Headphones: Yes
- Remote Control: Yes
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Best non NET MD Player
Pros
Excellent Price, battery life, skip resistance, recording quality, optical link with sync record
Cons
advertised with GROUP feature, allowing for grouping of tracks into 'albums'. NO SUCH FEATURE SONY!
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
I'd recommend this unit to anyone keen on quality recording, but you need a quality mike and a good padded case. syd@brisdjembe.org for more info.
I bought this product as a digital recorder for sampling rhythms in our drumming group etc. I owned a Sony recording tape Walkman, absolute junk for recording with it's auto gain feature (auto noise feautre). I wanted something that records with both auto gain and manual gain, which (luckily) this product does. In fact when I fired it up, the autogain feautre is better than the manual gain as there is no (or very little) noise! Very suprised, I doubt I will use the manual gain at all!
Suggestion: if you buy an unit with a built in or suppied microphone, avoid or throw away the mike, Sony make junk mikes, I use a decent Optimus omi mike with wind foam and a minature stand, quality absolutely brilliant!
I also like the optical recording from an optical CD player. It has a great SYNC feature, press record-pause on the walkman, then play on the CD Player and whamo! Starts and stops recording automatically. Tho no matter what Sony says, the recording isn't perfect, still some loss through the electronics. All in all adequate tho.
MDLP4: Unless you are deaf to fine audio quality, avoid at all costs, quality is below standard for 'busy' sounds like drum kits or distorted guitar. Same principal as an MPEG movie, the more detail and movement there is, the lower the frame rate and hence quality of the movie. On MDLP4 (and even a bit on 2) if there is a quiet piece the quality is just fine, tho once a lot of frequencies pop up with busy music, it sounds aweful. I record quality CD's that origionally were mastered digitally (DDD) on SP (and get only 1.5 CD's to a disk) whereas ADD or AAD (older albums) on MDLP2, where I get 2.5 -3 shorter CD's to a disk. I do all mike recording on Monoural (getting twice the disk length as there is only 1 track being recorded). SP and Mono employ the units Type R signal processor, so the quality is at it's best. MDLPx use other MP3 like algorythms.
Case: Come on Sony, supply quality gear for the price please!
In line remote: Wish it had backlight, and the radio on button stops the MD playing and switches to radio. Being a very easy to press button I super-glued mine! There goes the radio feature of the unit, but radio is crap here in Australia!
Battery life: briliant, though I only use alkaline AA's not the rechargable....they are 1.5volts with a better drop off curve, whereas NiCads are 1.2v with an earlier drop off, bad for long term recording.
Suggestion: if you buy an unit with a built in or suppied microphone, avoid or throw away the mike, Sony make junk mikes, I use a decent Optimus omi mike with wind foam and a minature stand, quality absolutely brilliant!
I also like the optical recording from an optical CD player. It has a great SYNC feature, press record-pause on the walkman, then play on the CD Player and whamo! Starts and stops recording automatically. Tho no matter what Sony says, the recording isn't perfect, still some loss through the electronics. All in all adequate tho.
MDLP4: Unless you are deaf to fine audio quality, avoid at all costs, quality is below standard for 'busy' sounds like drum kits or distorted guitar. Same principal as an MPEG movie, the more detail and movement there is, the lower the frame rate and hence quality of the movie. On MDLP4 (and even a bit on 2) if there is a quiet piece the quality is just fine, tho once a lot of frequencies pop up with busy music, it sounds aweful. I record quality CD's that origionally were mastered digitally (DDD) on SP (and get only 1.5 CD's to a disk) whereas ADD or AAD (older albums) on MDLP2, where I get 2.5 -3 shorter CD's to a disk. I do all mike recording on Monoural (getting twice the disk length as there is only 1 track being recorded). SP and Mono employ the units Type R signal processor, so the quality is at it's best. MDLPx use other MP3 like algorythms.
Case: Come on Sony, supply quality gear for the price please!
In line remote: Wish it had backlight, and the radio on button stops the MD playing and switches to radio. Being a very easy to press button I super-glued mine! There goes the radio feature of the unit, but radio is crap here in Australia!
Battery life: briliant, though I only use alkaline AA's not the rechargable....they are 1.5volts with a better drop off curve, whereas NiCads are 1.2v with an earlier drop off, bad for long term recording.
