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Summary: Be educated before reviewing
Review: The reviewer who states that Sony has "finally" introduced a minidisc recorder with microphone input does not have much knowledge of minidisc recorders. Sony has always had minidisc recorders with mic inputs. Every year since minidisc recorders came out, Sony has offered some models with mic inputs, all the way back to the first minidisc recorder, the MZ-1 from 1992 (twelve years ago). Sharp has also offered the same since it licensed from Sony. Sharp used to have some added recording benefits that Sony lacked, such as the ability to change recording levels while recording, instead of just while paused. But all of Sony's models of the past few years, including this one, now allow that too. Of course, the new Sony Hi-MD units will make this one obsolete, as you will now be able to upload your live recordings to computer digitally, at faster speed than the current real-time analog upload. Go look at minidisc.org and browse through each year's offerings to educate yourself.
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Summary: Price/Value -> For die-hard Sony/gadgetry fans
Review: The tag price of MZ-N10 Net MD is too high for what it has to offer. For above $300, one would expect MZ-N10 to have the a radio/TV/weather-band, a capability Sony MZ-NF610 offers for only $199. As well, the line-in for microphone, without an actual microphone included, comes too little, and comes too late. It comes too little for reasons that seem to annoy so many prosumers: not being able to upload the recorded content, despite being able to easily differentiate between mic-recordings and transfers from a computer. It comes too late because SHARP had a model on the market that was equipped with microphone line-in some 2 years ago, for only $170 at that time. The differentiation between content that's been recorded (via mic) and downloaded could be easily addressed by a software patch!As somebody here put it, 5 stars for the technology, 1 star for its flexibility, and 2 stars for the price/value ratio, that's 3 stars average.
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Summary: not all it's cracked up to be
Review: The unit itself is good, but the software that supposedly downloads music from your computer to the minidisc is lousy. The result skips and inserts large blank sections throughout all the songs. Not a very good result for the price Sony asks for this minidisc.
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Summary: not all it's cracked up to be
Review: The unit itself is good, but the software that supposedly downloads music from your computer to the minidisc is lousy. The result skips and inserts large blank sections throughout all the songs. Not a very good result for the price Sony asks for this minidisc.
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Summary: The top of the line and a super machine
Review: This is it, right now, the top of the minidisc line. Super sound quality, awesome features, light weight (great at the gym) and with a variety of recording features that make it a pleasure to use. Auto tracking increments help when recording live or from an analog source. Great remote that has a two line display, group function and other features help navigate through long files.
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Summary: don't get stung!
Review: This is one of my worst purchases. Having taken some time to research MP3 players and owning a RIO, I wanted to buy something at the top end. The Sony MZ-N10 seemed to be just right. As far as the hardware goes it's great but the software is very poor and irritating. Specifically, Sony have created a process of checking in and out the MP3 files, this works only some of the time, is non intuitive, very slow and also restricts the number of times the file can be transferred (3 times). Compared to my RIO this device is a serious pain. It's a shame as it's just the software, come on Sony provide an update which is non restrictive and fix the bugs!!!!
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Summary: DO NOT BUY IT!!!
Review: This is the worst Sony product I have ever bought. I bought it because I record MY OWN lectures and I wanted to transfer them to my computer. And then when I try to do it I find that you cannot download them!!!
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Summary: New Updated Software
Review: Well, right off the bat, let me say that if you're looking for a device to record samples, etc, then like everyone else the NetMD systems aren't for you, because the SonicStage software will still restrict uploading of tracks from the MD to the computer that haven't previously been checked out.
Having said that, at least one person made mention in a previous review about the check-out being restricted to 3 only. The new version of SonicStage just released (2.0) allows unlimited check-out of songs in your library, so you can now transfer songs on your computer to the disks as many times as you like. Still...not much consolation for those wanting to upload from the player, but hey, Sony's trying. heh. I've only had my NetMD for a couple of months, but so far I love it and have had no trouble with the software, especially now that the check-out restriction has been lifted. It's light, compact and provides great sound quality (even at the LP4 setting the quality is pretty good), but this product may not suit everyone. Shop around. Unless you're a Sony junkie who can overlook shortcomings. ;)
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