Sony MZ-R90 Personal MiniDisc Player
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- Recordable: Recordable
- Headphones: Yes
- Remote Control: LCD
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If you stick it in your pocket you might loose it.
Pros
Smallest, Longest lasting, optical inputs, good features....
Cons
very expensive, not too ez to name tracks
Recommended it?
Yes
This product is the newest thing from sony japan. It will be hitting the coventional US market sometime in Febuary '00. I got my hands on one and man do i love it. Not only is it the smallest minidisc in the world (As of aug '99) but it is also tied for longest battery life. The standerd included rechargable-battery lasts for twelve hours. If you had one AA battery (in the battery add on provided) it runs for 29 hours (playing time). Those are 2 of the reasons it is so expensive. The other reason is that is records minidiscs. It has all the standerd features like Digital mega bass, and alvs (stupid auto volume control), and track editing (add track mark, delete track mark, edit name of song...). It is a little tiring and repeditive if you are entering really long names like Jenifer Lopez - Waiting for Tonight (Matt and Vito Vox Club Mix). One of the features sony japan added is the name bank. This lets you store up to 600 commonly used words. So you don't have to type them in when editing track names. I have 'club' and 'mix' and lots of other words in there, so that jenifer lopez song was a little bit easier to name.
It comes with some really good earbuds (even though i love my sony mdr-v600 headphones). It also came with a back lite remote with track editing features. Personally i like naming on the unit it's self. This md also has 40 second skip protection and a "free floating" asembaly. Free floating means that the insides absorb some of the shock and try to keep the lazer on line. OH! i forgot the thing i love most about this md. It has 3 in/out's. One input is a optical/line in. This means you can hook it up to your digital components (dvd, optical cd player, md home deck) and record at crystal clear quality. If you we to want to record digitally like that you would need a 1 or 2 sided mini-optical plug (about $20. you don't need the $40+ one, thats more for dolby-digi). That same optical hole also doubles as a line in for your standerd miniplug analog recordings. The other is a stereo microphone input. I heard that this is a neat feature but i've never tryed it. Then there is the headphone-remote/line-out plug. It takes any mini out put device you can hook up to it (home reciever, headphones, and anything with RCA inputs [with right connections]). And the absolute last feature i can think of is the one touch eject. It's exactly what it says it is and i like it. I really like it.
I do recomend it but with stipulations. Only get this if you are looking for the current best (as of feb '00). This is like a mp3 player with unlimited flash cards. The m-discs only cost about $2 each. Also only get it if you really like music and you are willing upgrade everything, including digital cd player, car md, and home md deck. And last of all you probibly want to have mp3's to copy to this.
It comes with some really good earbuds (even though i love my sony mdr-v600 headphones). It also came with a back lite remote with track editing features. Personally i like naming on the unit it's self. This md also has 40 second skip protection and a "free floating" asembaly. Free floating means that the insides absorb some of the shock and try to keep the lazer on line. OH! i forgot the thing i love most about this md. It has 3 in/out's. One input is a optical/line in. This means you can hook it up to your digital components (dvd, optical cd player, md home deck) and record at crystal clear quality. If you we to want to record digitally like that you would need a 1 or 2 sided mini-optical plug (about $20. you don't need the $40+ one, thats more for dolby-digi). That same optical hole also doubles as a line in for your standerd miniplug analog recordings. The other is a stereo microphone input. I heard that this is a neat feature but i've never tryed it. Then there is the headphone-remote/line-out plug. It takes any mini out put device you can hook up to it (home reciever, headphones, and anything with RCA inputs [with right connections]). And the absolute last feature i can think of is the one touch eject. It's exactly what it says it is and i like it. I really like it.
I do recomend it but with stipulations. Only get this if you are looking for the current best (as of feb '00). This is like a mp3 player with unlimited flash cards. The m-discs only cost about $2 each. Also only get it if you really like music and you are willing upgrade everything, including digital cd player, car md, and home md deck. And last of all you probibly want to have mp3's to copy to this.
