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Summary: Buyer Beware
Review: Sound quality is excellent. But that's where the pros stop. Sony has masterminded bad business tactics by effectively gimping the MZ-NF810. No line-out. How many quality recording devices do you know have no line out? Sony does not say anything about this unusual design on their website or product packaging.Therefore, anything you record with your MD from analog sources, vinyl, cassette, reel-to-reel, microphone,is locked in the very unpopular MD world. Their software which allows you to transfer audio from computer to the MD uses language like "check-in" and "check-out" to wean the Sony consumer off of the ability to freely record and transfer music. Sony is out of touch. Bottomline: Don't buy the Sony MZ-NF810.
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Summary: Stay Away, a rip off
Review: The software will only work on computers with "factory installed" windows, and even then is very difficult to use. If your windows installation was not done in a factory on a pre-built computer, you can not upload or download data to the minidisc player. I only discovered this after a hellish experience with sony tech support. STAY AWAY.
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Summary: Stay Away, a rip off
Review: The software will only work on computers with "factory installed" windows, and even then is very difficult to use. If your windows installation was not done in a factory on a pre-built computer, you can not upload or download data to the minidisc player. I only discovered this after a hellish experience with sony tech support. STAY AWAY.
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Summary: GOT IT AT LAST
Review: The thing I had long been waiting for. It has all and even more than I expected. I am amazed to see such a small piece of equipment can do so much. The sound quality is great, the radio gives it an added dimension and the weight and size are just right. I expect to make maximum use of all its features.
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Summary: Don't buy if you need to record
Review: This player has no way of transferring things you record onto another Computer or even other media. It has, as my reviewer colleague explains, no line out. I bought this as I am a professional musician, and I want to record and archive rehearsals, etc. It was sold with a microphone(which I didn't buy) for that purpose. The manual says this, but it is on page 72 in 8 point font in a footnote. The advertizing is misleading, as it says you can "check in" tracks. The whole promise of MD devices was that you could do everything on them a CD couldn't do--like record. This lack of feature effectivly prevents you from recording, because you can never get the recording off the Mini Disc. In fact, for all the great editing tools that are advertised with this device, you cannot even edit the recording live. The only solution is to plug it into a ripper. This converts the digital signal to analog, effectivly wasting the whole point of using digital media in the first place.
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Summary: One word for these guys.... EXCELLENT!
Review: This was my first placed order over the internet and let me tell you it went great! Besides getting a great deal for my minidisc they shipped it right away and got it to me in no time. I wrote them an e-mail with a question and got a response within half an hour! Great doing business with Golden International and I recommend them to all Amazon buyers. I will definitly do business with them again!
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