Sony MZ-NH1 Personal MiniDisc Player

I just received this unit for Christmas, and I am completely thrilled with it. It is very portable, has the option of uncompressed recording, and the sound quality is excellent. I read a lot of negative comments about it on minidisc.org, but I don't really get the negative feedback. It is a great little unit, and I can say that I highly recommend it to anyone. I am using Etymotic ER4S earphones which most portable players won't power properly without an external headphone amp, but the NH1 powers them fine. If you want the option of storing thousands of songs on your player and don't want to mess with the 1 gig disks, then you may go for a hard disk player. However, if you want the ability to record uncompressed using a mic input, then this (or sony's other Hi-Md) units are the way to go. The Atrac3plus codec does a great job, and the sound is very rich. I got 10 full CD's at this high resolution onto one disk. This is enough for my needs. I am a happy customer.